What does "school choice" mean?

[Anonymous]

OK, so my kid cannot attend Walt Whitman school if I am zoned for Blair?
For a moment I thought they were taking away school boundaries and letting parents descide which county school the kid could attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where we live it means that kids can go to any public school even if it's not in their district--if the school has space for them and the parents provide the transportation.

This is also true here. It's just that very few of our schools are under enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Did you hear about the black homeless woman who lied about her address so she could enroll her child in school and was thrown in prison?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Private schools generally don't have a testing problem because they can choose kids who are already very likely to be successful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Private schools generally don't have a testing problem because they can choose kids who are already very likely to be successful.

Right. But the poster at the top said that public vouchers for private.... with no accountability. What constitutes "accountability"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Private schools generally don't have a testing problem because they can choose kids who are already very likely to be successful.

That's a very broad brush. How about Lab and the multitude of other schools that teach kids with LDs.

Accountability could be nobody applies to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Private schools generally don't have a testing problem because they can choose kids who are already very likely to be successful.

That's a very broad brush. How about Lab and the multitude of other schools that teach kids with LDs.

Accountability could be nobody applies to go there.

So you mean they would have to accept all who want to attend?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To normal people, it means public charter school and non-neighborhood based traditional public schools, including magnet schools.

To super right-wing folks, it means public $ vouchers for private, many times religious, schools with no accountability.

What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Private schools generally don't have a testing problem because they can choose kids who are already very likely to be successful.

That's a very broad brush. How about Lab and the multitude of other schools that teach kids with LDs.

Accountability could be nobody applies to go there.

So you mean they would have to accept all who want to attend?

What I mean is if nobody wants to attend the school that would be a good indicator that it is not a good school. It's the same accountability that privates have now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What would "accountability" look like? Standardized testing?

Does anyone think for a moment that maybe they should listen to the teachers and find out their needs before focusing on just some test to measure the school?