Re: Re: [Pen-l] Charter schools

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

David B. Shemano wrote:
> Let's imagine neighborhood school, run by the same people who think the post office is the model of efficiency.

Let's imagine that folks who are generally underpaid and overworked
aren't subject to gratuitous insults. No-one sees the post office as a
model of efficiency.

BTW, what in heck do you mean by efficiency? Currently, as I
understand it, the post office defines that as having a large ratio of
revenues to monetary costs. This follows the Nixon-era "reforms" which
have been followed since. It ignores external costs and benefits, not
to mention unpaid costs to the employees. Because of that, no serious
economist would call it "efficiency." (Alas, economics is not
dominated by serious economists.)

In that light, we should remember that private schools (and charter
schools that act like private schools) do not provide such services as
help for special-needs kids. On that basis alone, private schools are
inferior, dumping the cost of special-needs kids on the public schools
and the public purse.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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