In Sarasota, the Island Montessori School kicked out a well-behaved student without giving a reason. The parents were active in the school and supported it. The child was thriving.
But the school hired a new principal, and the parents asked too many questions.
Unlike a public school, the kid was booted because of his parents’ actions.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Use your imagination to predict what will happen to outspoken parents, teachers and children in the future once the oligarchs have achieved their goals and corporatized/privatized the public sector in the United States and stripped the U.S. Constitution of its protections for the people. Will they build the American Gulags in frigid north Alaska on the mosquito infested tundra or in the blistering-hot rattle snake and scorpion infested deserts of Arizona?
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my child attends a charter high school. I sit on the athletic booster board. I openly question extravagant expenditures by the governing board, and the top administrators. I was told two weeks ago that I had to resign from the booster board, or the school would basically shut down the booster board. I have not resigned.
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OMG, this is FASCISM.
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Is there anything worse than fascism? According to Academia.edu, Technocracy is worse than fascism.
The lead paragraph in this post says, “Most people don’t realize that the whole word is on a path to something that will even be far worse than fascism.”
And in the conclusions: “A technocracy is taking shape in this country which will far surpass any form of tyranny ever experienced on earth before.”
http://www.academia.edu/4154888/Technocracy_Worse_Than_Fascism
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As a teacher of medieval history, I often think about how the despots of yesteryear, while heinous, had major limits to their ability to control the populace. No census data, no ID cards, no Internet or IRS…people could hide. Could change their identities. Could move to a new city and disappear. Could talk without fear of being secretly recorded. Dictator Trump will have more total control than even the totalitarians of the 20th century. People will be afraid to use the Internet.
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Medieval history, that’s a fantastic subject area.
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I assume this is why the all-seeing eye of God was so important to the ruling classes back then.
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I tried to post this on FB. This is the message that popped up on the display several times:
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Wonder WHY?
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I thought Montessori schools were private schools and NOT charter schools? Maybe it’s different in FL?
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Depends on the school. There’s no requirement that Montessori be one or the other. In fact, some true public schools are Montessori, too.
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Some private schools in FL saw where the money was at (or from) and converted from private to charter. Not uncommon in the least.
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I think it’s unfortunate for the child, but when I read the article you linked to, a red flag jumped out, which is that the child’s parents made some people uncomfortable because they support the idea of carrying guns for self-defense. Does this mean they were pushing for teachers at the school to carry guns? The article doesn’t get into specifics. While I support private citizens’ rights to arm their homes, I get uncomfortable when parents at my son’s public school suggest arming teachers. I do not want my children attending school in an environment like that, especially since statistically there’s a chance that arming teachers could increase the chance that gun violence occurs in the classroom (I’m one of those pesky people who respect statistics and science and things like that). In regular public schools, parents would have to go through all kinds of bureaucracy to persuade a district, or perhaps a state legislature, to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom. Is there a chance that at this charter school, there could be fewer hoops to jump through for a parent to achieve the goal of arming instructors? If that’s the case here (though I don’t know whether it is), then I’m a little more sympathetic with the administration.
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If you read in the article comments section, you will have some questions answered. There is a heated exchange between Mrs. Buck and another parent along with some comments from other parents. This article was very poorly written. Apparently the Buck’s were questioning the qualifications of the new principle, noting that she was not an administrator in her previous position as she had stated on her resume? Just read the comments however toxic they may seem and you can start to see the other side of the story.
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I see no problem with teachers being allowed to keep a pistol, a firearm, in the classroom as long as the teacher has gone through the same training with firearms the police do and has a small weapon’s safe bolted to the wall or inside a filing cabinet that will only open for the teacher. And any teachers must be licenses and have a more detailed FBI background check before being allowed to keep one in the classroom.
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As much as I am a supporter of gun ownership, the thought of teachers having weapons in the classroom is absurd to me. That training would not be there, think of the costs involved. Oh, I know have the teachers pay for it during their yearly three month vacations, getting certified from some mom & pop certifying “organization”.
Nope! No weapons for teachers in classrooms. Insane.
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Parents should indeed ask many questions at private charter schools, especially since charter schools which rode into existence behind the banner of “accountability” avoid accounting for what the do with the public’s tax money that they divert away from genuine public schools. Private charter schools across our nation are allowed to divert hundreds of millions of public school tax dollars away from educating America’s children and into private pockets. Even the staunchly pro-charter school Los Angeles Times (which acknowledges that its “reporting” on charter schools is paid for by a billionaire charter school advocate) complained in an editorial that “the only serious scrutiny that charter operators typically get is when they are issued their right to operate, and then five years later when they apply for renewal.” Without needed oversight of what charter schools are actually doing with the public’s tax dollars, hundreds of millions of tax money that is supposed to be spent on educating the public’s children is being siphoned away into private pockets.
Any thoughtful person should pause a moment and ask: “Why are hedge funds the biggest promoters of charter schools?” Hedge funds aren’t altruistic — there’s got to be big profit in “non-profit” charter schools in order to hedge funds to be involved in backing them.
One typical practice of charter schools is to pay exorbitant rates to rent buildings that are owned by the charter school board members or by their proxy companies which then pocket the public’s tax money as profit. Another profitable practice is that although charter schools use public tax money to purchase millions of dollars of such things as computers, the things they buy with public tax money become their private property and can be sold by them for profit…and then use public tax money to buy more, and sell again, and again, and again, pocketing profit after profit.
Charter schools are clearly private schools, owned and operated by private entities; nevertheless, they get public tax money. And, as the NAACP and ACLU have learned, charter schools are often engaged in racial and economic-class discrimination.
Charter schools should (1) be required by law to be governed by school boards elected by the voters so that they are accountable to the public; a charter school entity must legally be a subdivision of a publicly-elected governmental body; (3) charter schools should be required to file the same detailed public-domain audited annual financial reports under penalty of perjury that genuine public schools file; and, (4) anything a charter school buys with the public’s money should be the public’s property.
The Washington State and New York State supreme courts and the National Labor Relations Board have ruled that charter schools are not public schools because they aren’t accountable to the public since they aren’t governed by publicly-elected boards and aren’t subdivisions of public government entities, in spite of the fact that some state laws enabling charter schools say they are government subdivisions.
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Please stay firm and tell others than my comments are not out of topic . Thanks
Kids kicked out , sex- arasment ; Fisical Abuse
That is happening every single day and principals and Goberments leaders . The’r
Money’s Relligion and are proud of the’r religions .
That is freedom ?
God bless America no any more if people don’t stand up ?
The wild beats !
The power of the governments
The powers of the money
The powers of falses regions’s leaders most of them are camaleines .
Parents fight Martin L. King way or slavery , Americans Kids are on that way .
True or false ?
Educations topic kids are in a free country , I encourage them to read the bible everyday .
My kids are A A A A A A A
Publics schools are not as charters.
Charters Leaders hate Jehovah’s Wiseness and I’m not liying .
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” READING OLD NEWS PAPER ”
Kids are kicked out literally or figuratively ?
Charters are empires .
Empires * can be political { 6 } commercial { 6 } , or religious { 6 }
Goberments Corrution = 6
Billionaries corporations corruption = 6
Religions * are not fighting corruption = 6
Hialeah Education Acadenic. Inc ( Cristian )
Charters can fire Jehovah’s witnesses or Jewis and public schools are not doing that , publics schools are victims of the beast but people are blain , even parents are doing nothing .
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