PAVE paying $100 to go to a meeting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange bribing people to come to a meeting or for their opinions.

It’s a “bribe” to give funds so parents can get to and from the meeting? Ok.

$100 to get to the mtg? Where are they coming from?

Yes, it’s a bribe. A payment to induce people to behave the way the payor wants them to. Whether you think that’s ok is another argument.

I really don’t care.

I don't want to shock you, but do you know that people are PAID MONEY to be parts of clinical trials? There's nothing inappropriate about paying for transportation to ensure that you get a group of low-income parents to participate.

[Anonymous]

$100 for transport within the city?

Yes, it is an inducement. At least call it what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange bribing people to come to a meeting or for their opinions.

It’s a “bribe” to give funds so parents can get to and from the meeting? Ok.

$100 to get to the mtg? Where are they coming from?

Yes, it’s a bribe. A payment to induce people to behave the way the payor wants them to. Whether you think that’s ok is another argument.

I really don’t care.

I don't want to shock you, but do you know that people are PAID MONEY to be parts of clinical trials? There's nothing inappropriate about paying for transportation to ensure that you get a group of low-income parents to participate.

Clinical trials are different than building a political constituency.

[Anonymous]

What is PAVE trying to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is PAVE trying to do?

the question is actually, what is OP trying to do by insinuating bad conduct by PAVE? Clearly OP is threatened by PAVE. Why is that, and how do we feel about charters post pandemic school closure? Personally, I used to buy the basic progressive anti-charter stance, but no longer. I don’t think it’s anything but a union-led attack. That’s not to say charters did better during the pandemic, but that I don’t trust the anti-charter faction to give an accurate public policy assessment of modes of public education that sidestep unions (charters, vouchers, testing, etc).

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.

right - but OP isn’t slandering PAVE because she thinks schools should have reopened sooner. Neither sector showed itself to be particularly dedicated to kids during the pandemic. Will be interesting to see how they do next year.

[Anonymous]

Why were the comments about unions/ union dues deleted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why were the comments about unions/ union dues deleted?

because the OP is a union operative flagging any comment about WTU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.

Really? Not true for my charter. Overall, DCPS lost enrollment coming into the 2020-21 school year and charters gained. We'll see in the fall how both DCPS and charters fare for the new school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange bribing people to come to a meeting or for their opinions.

It’s a “bribe” to give funds so parents can get to and from the meeting? Ok.

$100 to get to the mtg? Where are they coming from?

Yes, it’s a bribe. A payment to induce people to behave the way the payor wants them to. Whether you think that’s ok is another argument.

I really don’t care.

Why should we care about big money influencing public education for our kids?

/Sarcasm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange bribing people to come to a meeting or for their opinions.

It’s a “bribe” to give funds so parents can get to and from the meeting? Ok.

$100 to get to the mtg? Where are they coming from?

Yes, it’s a bribe. A payment to induce people to behave the way the payor wants them to. Whether you think that’s ok is another argument.

I really don’t care.

Why should we care about big money influencing public education for our kids?

/Sarcasm

Cool, now do the influence of teachers unions on public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.

right - but OP isn’t slandering PAVE because she thinks schools should have reopened sooner. Neither sector showed itself to be particularly dedicated to kids during the pandemic. Will be interesting to see how they do next year.

I’m slandering PAVE because they’re funded by the Walton family who want to destroy public schools to cut taxes on the rich.

The two biggest state and local budget lines are schools and police and prisons. There’s a reason the Waltons and Charles Koch fund school “reform” and prison “reform”. They don’t care about the kids or the prisoners. They just want to shrink government to cut taxes on the ultra rich (themselves.)

It’s just hard to take any school reform organization seriously if it takes money from bad actors. Maybe PAVE will do good. Or maybe they have secretive conflicts of interest that affect what they do. We don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.

right - but OP isn’t slandering PAVE because she thinks schools should have reopened sooner. Neither sector showed itself to be particularly dedicated to kids during the pandemic. Will be interesting to see how they do next year.

I’m slandering PAVE because they’re funded by the Walton family who want to destroy public schools to cut taxes on the rich.

The two biggest state and local budget lines are schools and police and prisons. There’s a reason the Waltons and Charles Koch fund school “reform” and prison “reform”. They don’t care about the kids or the prisoners. They just want to shrink government to cut taxes on the ultra rich (themselves.)

It’s just hard to take any school reform organization seriously if it takes money from bad actors. Maybe PAVE will do good. Or maybe they have secretive conflicts of interest that affect what they do. We don’t know.

you know who ACTUALLY destroyed my child's schooling for the past 1.5 years? The teacher's union. So spare me the histrionics.

[Anonymous]

It’s not slander if it’s true. And it is.