HELP! Privatizers Target Fort Wayne

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1. ronee groff says:

   February 19, 2013 at 8:27 am

   Circle your wagons and find the organizations in your state that are supposed to be advocating for the learning disabled, get the unions, get to your state PTA (where the heck have they been) or Home School Organizations.

   Privateers claim a private public partership…..what public???? Ask!!

   Best of luck to you sent from New Jersey!!!!!

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2. Michael Brocoum says:

   February 20, 2013 at 10:40 am

   What do you expect for a state that sold a toll road to private ownership.

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3. BeemersEx says:

   February 20, 2013 at 11:18 am

   Ah, yes, Mr. GiaQuinta is begging you to come and pity his schools. The schools that were so bad that he will not let his children step into them. His children attend the elite Canterbury School! Over coffee his daughter stated “Dad wanted the best, not the mediocrity schools with test after test. He wanted his children to think.” Sad, FWCS’ students don’t have the option to think, after being tested ever 6 weeks. Canterbury doesn’t give the ISTEP at all in pre-K – 8th grades. And, students have numerous times for free play and recess. This unlike the FWCS schools where kids only have 10 minutes a day. So, Mr. GiaQuinta uses the role of school board president to bully others and builds bars that serve people until they are so drunk, they are hospitalized.

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   • dianerav says:

     February 20, 2013 at 12:27 pm

     You are not being fair to Mark GiaQunita. I visited Fort Wayne last year and toured some wonderful, wonderful public schools. Like Rahm Emanuel, he has the right to choose a private school to protect his children from the toxic testing imposed by the federal government and the state of Indiana; he pays for that right. I admire him for fighting for the best for all of Fort Wayne’s children. Your comments are obnoxious.

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4. brian stouder says:

   February 25, 2013 at 9:31 pm

   I fully intend to attend the public meeting for this newest bunch of carpet-bagging profiteers who want to unleash a Carpei Diem on our public education system.

   If we once agree that “public education” makes sense – and is in fact indispensable to our society and our civilization – then HOW ON EARTH can it possibly serve a positive public purpose to Carpet Bomb our established public school system? How is it even coherent thought to deride “government schools” as the vandals often do, while at the same time advocating “voucher” dollars for themselves…dollars which are taxed from the people by the government, and then hosed onto these UNgoverned schools?

   Either we believe in public education or we do not; and this false-distinction between “evil” government schools, and virtuous “charter” schools which canNOT exist without that very same government’s money – is willful ignorance and/or deliberately nihilistic. The whole game seems to simply be to destroy public schools and relegate large swaths of people to a life of underpaid drudgery.

   In Fort Wayne, we have an elected school board, and an exceptionally talented and hard working Superintendent, hired by that same board. I attend many of the board meetings, and if a question or a concern comes up, there are many folks right there who can answer it.

   How much luck will one have, with some corporate board that exists (on paper, anyway) 5 states and two time zones away, and which doesn’t care one whit about anything other than through-puts and profits?

   PS – I loved the book The Death and Life of the Great American School System, which I got the author to inscribe, when she visited Fort Wayne and gave a lecture a year ago. It was enlightening, troubling, and also more than a little reassuring, too

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5. michelle bandor says:

   February 26, 2013 at 10:45 pm

   There was a huge crowd of public school supporters in attendance tonight at the Public Hearing in FW on The Summit campus belonging to Ambassador Enterprises to testify their opposition to the proposed Carpe Diem charter school. A number of parents, neighborhood leaders, students, teachers, principals, administrators and our school board president, Mark GiaQuinta spoke to oppose. One thing was obvious: we are passionate about our Fort Wayne Community Schools! And while Rick Ogden was passionate about Carpe Diem, and several wonderfully well-spoken Carpe Diem students from Indianapolis spoke in support of their school, the truth is that that this charter is neither wanted or needed in our community. We want our hard-earned tax dollars to stay in our school system and our community and not go to an out-of-state private education management company. (Brian was there!–Hey Brian! Nice post “up there”—I found Diane’s blog by accident looking for something else. Now that I found it, I’ll be back!–thanks Diane. Nice Blog!)

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