[Pen-l] RE: charter schools

[Joanna <123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David wrote

"The fact that the alternative is better for little Johnny and his 
parents is of less concern to you than the consequence on the 
neighborhood school. I am reading you fairly and objectively -- you 
think the consequence for the school is more important than the 
consequence for the child. In context, you think bright little Johnny 
exists to improve the neighborhood school, and not that the school 
exists to educate little Johnny, and if it can't, he should go elsewhere."

The consequences for the "school" are the consequences for all the 
children at that school other than Johnny. In that respect, one of the 
things Johnny will learn by going to a charter school is that he is 
entitled to something better than his peers and if somebody isn't born 
with a ready intelligence or parents who can steer their kids through 
the maze of public schools, they deserve to be fucked.

So Johnny might get a better education in some respects (text book 
knowledge), but a lousy education in other respects: ethics, compassion, 
and human solidarity.

Studies have repeatedly shown that students going to elite or otherwise 
privileged institutions are much more likely to cheat and plagiarize 
(and feel justified in doing so) than children attending normal schools

Joanna


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