EduShyster continues to set the gold standard for reformy humor.
In this post, she describes the annual campaign by charter operators in Massachusetts to pressure the state legislature to lift the cap so they can open more charter schools.
She notes that the students most involved in demanding more charter schools are already enrolled in one. She notes that they are bused to hearings and miss school to demand more charters.
This happens often in New York City. When there are hearings about school closings, there are usually bus loads of charter students and parents in identical tee-shirts, demanding more closings of public schools and more charters.
When I first saw this, I was puzzled. Why would they want more charters if they already attend one? How many schools can one student attend? Would a public school principal be allowed to hire buses to take students to a public hearing? Or to do it during school hours? Of course not. He or she would be fired.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Did I miss the charter school parades? I guess that’s up next.
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With “scholars” waving college banners..all in a straight line, eyes forward, no talking.
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And they’ll demonstrate their proficiency in SLANT to boot.What a show, what a show!
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Eva Moskowitz already pulled that one, holding a middle-of-the-school-day demonstration in support of her burgeoning empire.
And, as Diane correctly points out, we can well imagine the fate of a public school principal who did the same thing.
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Have they started paying the homeless yet? We got Rent-A-Protestor in Chicago
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No kidding, Karen. That was humiliating for that little suburb. Fifty dollars. Don’t you wonder if someone paid him $150 for the name of the one who paid him the $50?
I believe that CPS paid some unsavories to march among teachers last September.
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This is all a part of the political war by the corporatizers and privatizers. That is all there is to it. Not very complicated as nothing they do is very complicated it is just plain power and money politics.
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“…charter schools in Massachusetts do not have to fill vacancies in the last half of the school year, or in grades 10, 11 or 12 as filling empty seats with new students might cause the dilution of the culture of excellence, much as that ice cube in your glass has diluted the strength of your whiskey.”
Thanks EduShyster for delivering important rephormy news with such creative humor. You are great! I laugh and curse at the same time.
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No, they get out of school and get handed a sign. The students I get at my school at all times of the year from charter schools do not see the value, nor do they want others to have that experience.
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EBer. Vete.
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And during the protests in Wisconsin no public school teachers appeared and no Univ. of Wisconsin students appeared because they couldn’t miss their classes. Right. And I suppose all the little kiddies standing behind President Obama today were from private schools, eh? Right.
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