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Originally Posted by wdmso
Who are the most which you speak ? charter schools are nothing but cash cows for investor's to milk all ready limited funds from school districts (look who funded the ballot question in MA for charter schools some NY hedge fund) they are not the magic bullet they are billed to be ... Funny people complain about people being on welfare but then champion choice for poor families for charter schools .. but in the next breath want lower taxes ... all citizens should have the right to an good education but a free market based system is crazy and will start a new class system your bank account will select your education quality is that what we want ?
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"Who are the most which you speak ?"
That would be everyone who understands what happens when an organization has a monopoly, versus an organization that has competitors
"charter schools are nothing but cash cows for investor's to milk all ready limited funds from school districts "
Investors? Many, many charter schools are public schools. There are no "investors".
As I stated, it's often CHEAPER to send a kid to a private school, than it is to send them to a public school. So school vouchers, and school choice, often saves the town money. It also puts kids in better schools. Win-win.
"they are not the magic bullet they are billed to be"
Can you get through a single post, without responding to something which nobody ever said? Nobody said they are a silver bullet. But it HELPS. Good schools are better than crappy schools. Do you disagree?
"Funny people complain about people being on welfare but then champion choice for poor families for charter schools .. but in the next breath want lower taxes"
Very, very few people deny that we need a safety net. What conservatives complain about, is waste, abuse, and fraud in welfare programs.
For the 3rd (?) time, school choice can SAVE money, which could enable towns to lower taxes. You see WDMSO, when you spend less, you don't need as much coming in.
So as far as I can tell from your response, you oppose school choice for the following reasons...
(1) You don't want investors getting rich (invalid argument in most cases, as most private schools are not for profit)
(2) You say the alternative schools aren't guaranteed to be perfect. Well, nothing is perfect. Is it a silver bullet when your state spends more on prison guards? No, it's not. But I bet you support that.
(3) you say cities cannot afford it...but as I said, it can lower costs for cities. Give people the option of sending their kids to cheaper, yet better, schools.
"a free market based system is crazy "
As opposed to giving cities a monopoly, which has been swell in the cities.
"will start a new class system"
That's not what we have now in our cities?
"your bank account will select your education quality is that what we want"
we have that today. What school choice does, is reduce the difference in education quality. I am interested in giving people at the bottom, a better chance. You would rather stick with the status quo. Shocker, since you are in a public union.
Ask a poor person who lives in a city with crappy schools, yet who is raising kids who want to learn, if they'd rather send their kids to a private school in the suburbs. Ask the mayor of the city, if he would like to see education spending decrease, while giving better education to some kids.
You have put forth weak arguments.
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