A word to Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post on 'Schools MUST ReOpen' - F off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s absolutely right.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

AOC is an unmarried, childless, 30 year old. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

Based on the responses I thought his was going to be some wing but. The article lacks substance but it is overall a sentiment shared by most. Most people know that school needs to START to reopen. That does not mean swing the door open and let’s go back to normal. But grades K-2 cannot Distance learn w/o full time assistance, and if you have that luxury better to home school than struggle through the unrealistic DL schedules. Special ed also needs to be back. Let’s phase these groups in from the start. The numbers in our region are good and support opening in-person. Yes, we may need to close in later in fall. But starting in-person and having those kids make connections with their teachers will be so important if they need to switch to DL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

AOC is an unmarried, childless, 30 year old. Idiot.

... try to read what you highlighted again, before you call people names...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

Underprivileged kids need not suffer. They are suffering where communities have decided to not provide out of school services. The sensible and humane thing to do is to use other routes to ensure that at risk kids get the supports they and their families need. It will cost us money, but the alternative —reopening schools too early— will cost lives. Needlessly.

[Anonymous]

If test scores are the same, why do black and brown parents try their best to put kids in charter schools?

Because it's about long term success. Charter school kids do better with less money spent per kid.

Wypipo are terrified of underprivileged people having the chance to choose to join them in their schools.

[Anonymous]

DL is the best thing that ever happened to teachers and they will not give it up without a fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on the responses I thought his was going to be some wing but. The article lacks substance but it is overall a sentiment shared by most. Most people know that school needs to START to reopen. That does not mean swing the door open and let’s go back to normal. But grades K-2 cannot Distance learn w/o full time assistance, and if you have that luxury better to home school than struggle through the unrealistic DL schedules. Special ed also needs to be back. Let’s phase these groups in from the start. The numbers in our region are good and support opening in-person. Yes, we may need to close in later in fall. But starting in-person and having those kids make connections with their teachers will be so important if they need to switch to DL.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upper class whites just don't want black and brown people to have the freedom to choose. They might choose religious schools, and that would be terrible.

Give everyone a 10k voucher and watch what happens to the educational system. And a lot cheaper than PS prices per kid, too.

As a black kid in inner city DC public schools, you have little likelihood of ending up as a college graduate with a stable job. Just look at the results. Put the same kid in any private school, and voila.

This is a very facile understanding of the structural issues at the intersection of race and poverty, which maybe I should expect from someone still using the phrase "inner city."

Even though vouchers have a significant self-selection bias (parents who can navigate the system, petition the school, etc), outcomes for kids attending private schools on vouchers continue to be worse than their public school peers: https://www.brookings.edu/research/more-findings-about-school-vouchers-and-test-scores-and-they-are-still-negative/

Part of the reason for this is that $10K isn't enough to educate a student, so fly-by-nigh "private" schools pop up that are willing to accept the vouchers, but deliver a subpar education in return. Without any of the structure of a public school (infrastructure, curriculum, trained educators), they crop up, fail and then turn up again with a new name a few years down the road. In the meantime, kids have their education disrupted in the name of the free market, which does not work for education.

Too many public schools fail children, look at the stellar results of Baltimore. Detroit is so awful that they were sued.

A homeschool co-op could do wonders with 10k per student. I homeschooled my children for awhile and did very well on considerably less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

No, pay your own way for a school. I'm not paying into a public school system to reimburse your charter experience. FU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

Why does every single situation have to be determined by how it affects underprivileged kids? Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

Why does every single situation have to be determined by how it affects underprivileged kids? Seriously.

That's right, let them eat cake, ha-ha-ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

Why does every single situation have to be determined by how it affects underprivileged kids? Seriously.

Because they don't have a seat at the table. If you are not underprivileged then bully for you. Do what you need to as long as it doesn't require vouchers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on the responses I thought his was going to be some wing but. The article lacks substance but it is overall a sentiment shared by most. Most people know that school needs to START to reopen. That does not mean swing the door open and let’s go back to normal. But grades K-2 cannot Distance learn w/o full time assistance, and if you have that luxury better to home school than struggle through the unrealistic DL schedules. Special ed also needs to be back. Let’s phase these groups in from the start. The numbers in our region are good and support opening in-person. Yes, we may need to close in later in fall. But starting in-person and having those kids make connections with their teachers will be so important if they need to switch to DL.

+1

+2. There is a middle road between "everyone go back as normal" and "everyone stay home for a year". This is the reason I signed my first grader up for a private school that is using smaller class sizes, requiring masks and distancing, repurposing some rooms to make them classrooms, and using the outdoor space as much as possible. It seems that districts are unable or unwilling to acknowledge that DL just isn't going to work for certain groups and prioritize them. It's like superintendents and/or the school boards are afraid of pissing off parents of kids not in those groups, so let's just keep everyone home to make it fair. But it isn't fair, because there is a huge difference between a kindergartner and a 6th grader in terms of the ability to handle DL and generally be more self-sufficient while home (generally speaking). The reality is that kids in k-3 are going to be in group settings whether schools open or not, thus increasing community spread, because parents cannot work and supervise DL for 6 hours/day. In some cases the groups will even be in school buildings! It's so frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

No, pay your own way for a school. I'm not paying into a public school system to reimburse your charter experience. FU

So if URM can't afford to pay in the system, they shouldn't be given choices?