Ohio: ‘Twas Greed Killed the Beast

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1. Chiara says:

   February 13, 2018 at 11:25 am

   Good piece about the lobbying efforts of online providers:

   A free day at the aquarium! For Marcey Morse, a mother of two, it sounded pretty good.

   It was the fall of 2016, and Morse had received an email offering tickets, along with a warning about her children’s education.

   At that time, Morse’s two kids were enrolled in an online, or “virtual,” school called the Georgia Cyber Academy, run by a company called K12 Inc. About 275,000 students around the country attend these online public charter schools, run by for-profit companies, at taxpayers’ expense.

   The aquarium wouldn’t be something they could ordinarily afford. So Morse, her husband, a friend and their children took the day off and drove downtown to an Atlanta hotel for what was billed as a “day of fun at the aquarium and learning how to best protect our kids and their educational options.”

   But what happened, she says, was very different. “They were trying to usher us, step by step, in kind of a sneaky way, into a protest,” she says. “It was a trick. A basic, classic hustle.”

   At her meeting, Morse recalls, “first, they said, ‘we’re going to have a poster contest.’ Have the kids break out and make posters about why they love charter schools.” The prize was a Kindle.

   “Then, they pulled out the T-shirts and said, ‘Hey, we have free T-shirts, you can put this on if you want.’ ”

   https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/13/576449036/inside-the-virtual-schools-lobby-i-trust-parents

   Jeb Bush endorses this and wants to put it in all over the country.

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2. Chiara says:

   February 13, 2018 at 11:29 am

   Chief Justice O’Connor to Little on ECOT’s argument that it should be paid regardless of student participation: “How is that not absurd?”

   🙂

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3. Chiara says:

   February 13, 2018 at 5:32 pm

   DeVos is still energetically selling this cheap garbage to public schools:

   “Ms. DeVos has already begun stumping for initiatives that would give students different pathways to the work force, a mission President Trump has thrown his weight behind in calling for more “vocational schools.”

   Ms. DeVos said too many students were being steered toward a traditional college degree.

   “I think personalized learning, competency, mastery, that’s a big shift from where education has been,” she said. “But it’s absolutely where most of education has to go.”

   Please don’t buy from these salespeople, public schools. They’re ripping you off.

   Resist the 24/7 sales pitch. People who sell this hard are up to no good.

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4. InService says:

   February 13, 2018 at 10:12 pm

   ‘Twas the greed that killed E-COT, when all thro’ the house
   Not a creature was learning, not even a mouse;
   The data were hung by the chimney with care,
   In hopes that the info trade soon would be there;
   The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
   While visions of testing plumbs plagued all their heads…

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