How to Get RICH Quick? Open a School in NC!

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1. retired teacher says:

   April 27, 2026 at 10:30 am

   This is a free market “free for all.” It sounds like a pipe dream of libertarian lunatics, and it is bound to attract grifters, charlatans and profiteers. It will be a recipe for regret, and I hope parents have the common sense to ignore the advertising so their children do not suffer the consequences of this reckless idea.

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2. ECE Professional says:

   April 27, 2026 at 1:43 pm

   OMG, been there, done that, but at the college level. And what a nightmare!

   When these kinds of “schools” were just taking off across the country, it was obvious to me that they were all about raking in cash for those running them. Then, in the early 2000s, I was working in Teacher Education and got a job as professor and Program Coordinator at a college that had three campuses, supposedly: one was our main campus, one was a branch at a strip mall and the other was a branch at a child care center.

   I got the college to shut down the strip mall and child care center branches and we worked out arrangements with two other nearby colleges in those areas, so that students could attend the courses that my faculty and I taught in appropriate educational environments. At the very least, I argued, students MUST have access to a library on each campus — which they didn’t have at either of the branches. But also, students needed to have a variety of instructors –previously there had been just ONE who worked at both locations and taught ALL courses in the education major to students there. (Initially it was just Early Childhood Education and I created a new program too that led to a state credential for directors of ECE centers, Early Childhood Leadership and Advocacy.) Imagine taking all courses in your college major with just ONE person, as it had been before I made those changes… Ugh

   What were they thinking? If you just throw money in any direction with no requirements or even guidelines, unscrupulous people without appropriate training and professional experience will run to grab it and get rich quick. (In my experience, that ONE instructor had made out like a bandit –and I fired her.) In education, this means money grubbers will do God-only-knows-what to innocent students if no one is there to stop them, so someone has got to intervene!

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   • ECE Professional says:

     April 28, 2026 at 1:45 am

     BTW, There was money in my state to help fund training programs in education at the college level, but this is what happens when those running the programs have no training or experience in those areas themselves (much like how Eric Trump, without training and experience in robotics, was able to get $24M for his humanoid robots strart-up company recently).

     The whole point of privatized public programs, whether schools, prisons etc., is so people in the know (especially those with connections) can make profits. It cuts across party lines –Joe Biden’s brother Frank, ran the Mavericks for Education charter school chain. See https://abcnews.com/Politics/frank-biden-leveraged-famous-business-gain/story?id=68202529

     Early Childhood Education (ECE) covers children from birth through 3rd grade in my state and most others, but my department chair had degrees in K-8 Elementary Ed and English, and my dean had degrees in religious studies, yet they were the people who approved ECE college classes at branches located in a strip mall and a child care center. At the time, I was working on my doctorate in Educational Psychology and had earned my masters in Early Childhood Special Ed, my bachelors in regular ECE and my AA in Liberal Arts. Plus I had taken courses in Educational Administration and, in addition to teaching children for decades, I had been the director of 4 child care centers.

     I had faculty on staff with similar backgrounds, but that one instructor who had been teaching all the ECE courses at the two branches did not have courses in Ed Admin or experience as a child care director. That’s why my Department Chair and Dean were able to recognize that her lack of training and experience in key areas did not qualify her to teach in my new state endorsed Director Credential program, Early Childhood Leadership and Advocacy, and so they allowed me to let her go.

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     • ECE Professional says:

       April 28, 2026 at 3:00 am

       Correction, I was the director of 3 child care centers. Sorry for the typo.

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