Alexandria Millet writes in The Progressive about the consequences of the harsh discipline at “no excuses” charter schools.
She begins by telling the recent story of two six-year-old girls who were arrested in school for having a temper tantrum. They were taken to the police station, where their mug shots were taken. Eventually, in response to public outrage, the charges were dropped, and the school resource officer was fired. This happened at a no-excuses charter school where compliance is the highest value.
Are higher test scores worth the harsh discipline?
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Claiming charters lead to pipeline to prison is probably the most outrageous claim I’ve seen on this blog
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You just invented a straw man to knock down because the facts of the article are outrageous don’t you think?
A charter had a six year old child in their school arrested, fingerprinted and a mug shot taken of her. Do you approve?
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and so much public bullying of kids, manhandling them and handcuffing them in front of their peers: THIS is a statistic which has been documented repeatedly.
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“in front of their peers” is the modus operandi. With charters, once those in power deem a child no longer profitable to teach, the goal is to get rid of them. So a charter is strongly incentivized is to make making sure a kid on a “got to go” list is publicly humiliated since parents whose kid is bullied and publicly humiliated are far more likely to leave than parents in a school that demonstrated concern for the well-being of the child.
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TBrown: The title of this short post does not represent the context of the post.
How can a no-excuses charter school be a pipeline to prison when it is already a prep-school for prison by brain hacking poor children so they get used to what a prison environment can be like?
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Maybe compliance (for poor kids) is the goal of both.
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Please stop calling this “discipline”!
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School resource staff members should be given a handbook with a clear set of rules and regulations outlining how students should be treated. They should also get training before they are employed. Schools do not need resource officers that treat young people like enemy combatants.
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