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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I too am still processing....

Interesting analogy from a professor (who seems objective-although objectivity is really hard to find in this can of worms):

“When lots of charter schools open up, it’s like a new Walmart store moving in,” said Kevin G. Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado in Boulder. “You could look at it and say, ‘Well, the schools in a community are losing families because of healthy competition the same way that the hardware store is losing customers because of healthy competition.’ But that doesn’t take into account the long-term harms to the community, which are probably greater than any short-term benefit.”

[b]I wish they published more from him about the "long term harms".  Do public schools completely crumble? Or can they somehow be built up to "compete" with charters?[/b]

This is a great article, has me thinking about both sides of this coin. [/quote]

Yes, they completely crumble.   I believe that's what all this boundary proposal stuff is about.   Breaking the public schools, turning them over to private management, and rebuilding schools in the image of walmart, gates, and the hedge fund billionaires that back this stuff.  Just like with walmart , it will lead to more inequality and the education-poor will get poorer.

All that walmart money also didn't hurt I'm sure when it was time for the politicians in DC to decide whether walmart should be allowed to pay poverty wages.   Not a surprise walmart won that battle despite overwhelming public opposition.  [/quote]

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