The State of Ohio says that if your district is low-performing–that is, scoring in the bottom 5% of all districts–then charter schools are allowed to open in your district (previously, they were limited to eight urban districts).
But here is the irony. Only one out of four charter schools in Ohio has a better score than the bottom 5% of districts in the state.
So the remedy for a low-performing district is to open what are likely to be low-performing charter schools.
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I think every charter should get what every teacher now gets. Two years to improve or your out.
Carol! Teachers get two years to prove they are effective or they are out. Charters get five years. Grand reform schemes (see NYC, DC, New Orleans) get 10 years, or more if necessary to find that proof.
If you are not a profit-making school, then the obvious decision is to replace that school with a profit-making charter school. That’s why is called “choice”.
No matter which state has done this, it never seems to be about the students real needs. I have NEVER, as a teacher, been asked what I think would be best for education. I have been told to look at “data” and “research”, which I have. “Research” and “data” do NOT support charters. Of course we are no longer directed to look at research and data in the same way. ONLY for testing purposes do we even look at data. As teachers we are only dictated to, criticized for, blamed, accused, and what have you, when it comes to what is considered the lack of “success” of our students. I am leaving this profession after 40 years knowing it will soon no be a profession. It will simply be a JOB. If those who have the biggest voices, and, “coincidently” the most money, are attacking education, maybe it’s because it’s one of the last frontiers of “profit” at the expense of the taxpayer. Funny how they keep calling charters “non-profit”. Seems that they are a profit making venture when they are in business with the sellers of products for schools such as book companies, computer software companies, etc. It’s not like the money being spent at these charters is used for highly qualified educators. Seems like those “jobs” are reserved for those who are newly out of school or cannot find a “job” in their field. Although these college educated employees may be brillant, enthusiast, hard-working, unless they are there because they plan to make a career of teaching, it’s hard to imagine that they would want to stay very long for the low wages, little to no benefits and with no job security, due-process or even a contract, for that matter. Hope America wakes from it’s complacency and recognizes what is going on before our public school systems become nothing more than a place where children are “housed” for the day.
“So the remedy for a low-performing district is to open what are likely to be low-performing charter schools.”
Yes, it’s hard to tell the poison from the cure…especially when the manufacturers of the “cure” (charter schools) have also created the “poison” (criteria for judging successes and failures). But what else can one expect from an ideology based on “creating a need” or “a market” for what one is selling?
Here is the concept:
“You don’t need my product, so I’m going to create an evaluative instrument that miraculously points out your deficiencies so that you will eventually need my product.”
Sounds like the basis of many a science-fiction story where a greedy company spreads a supposedly “incurable” disease only to present the public with its vaccine “for a cost, of course.” Am I paranoid? In this case, I certainly hope so, but I can’t help thinking that this is not far from reality.