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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I believe that parents are absolutely qualified to create schools. The charter board will determine if the school meets the criteria for public funding, and if the education offered is in keeping with minimum standards ie continues to operate. Charters DO close after all."

But what makes them qualified? This is a serious question. Just because someone went to school doesn't make them an expert on education, so what makes these parents, any parents qualified to identify what makes a good school?

Or is this the wrong question? What is the right question?

(and for the PP who doubts, yes, DC is absolutely one of the easiest places to start a charter. Do yourself some research. As for your parochial remark, I'm not sure what  your point is...other states are more difficult to start a charter in? Yeah, that's my point.)[/quote]

What is this "qualified to identify what makes a good school" BS?  What makes a good school is functional proficiency.  Kids who can read for content, kids who can write and present well, with coherent structure and proper grammar and spelling, kids who have learned and can apply principles such as algebra and geometry, kids who know who our Presidents were and what our history is, kids who know the continents and countries, kids who understand a bit about civics, ethics, world cultures and so on.  DCPS churns out thousands of kids each year who don't have any of that - kids who can't even manage to read and write well enough to fill out a job application for themselves.  This is not rocket science.  Don't dare sit there and presume to pontificate down upon us from on high in your imaginary ivory tower about pedagogic theory and an educator's qualifications when the fact of it is that you and the rest of the public education system you represent is getting it all so very wrong at even the most fundamental level.[/quote]

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