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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly the intent of the lawmakers and PCS governance body was NOT to have everything be equal, else we would not have diverse, specialized offerings to meet specialized demands like ESL Adult Education (Carlos Rosario), Special Needs (St. Colettas), or for that matter Mandarin or other Language Immersion et cetera.

The poster who keeps trying to insist otherwise is trying to pitch revisionist history and undermine the central purpose of what charters have always been about.

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Wow, are you really that ignorant about education?  There is a vastly different world of decisions, policies, values and structures when it comes to curricula and how students are taught/school culture... and when it comes to who a school is available to/who can apply/who can attend.

No one (except you) has confused issues of the understandable variety and diversity in curricula, language, style, method... with issues of who has the opportunity to apply and whether some have a better chance than others due to location, academic ability, language proficiency, etc.

Different issues.

The posters talking about original intent of the charter board and congress and many founders of charter schools are talking about who can apply, and also who gets to get in when there are more people wanting to go then there are available spots.  Congress, City Council, and school boards, as they funnel money to school systems, have a lot to weigh and create policy around re: who needs which services and who specific funds are targeted to serve.

That is an entirely different question from dictating or (in the case of most charters) allowing wide latitude around ***how*** students get taught.  How do they learn best?  Expeditionary learning?  Play-based learning?  Immersion?  Should schools have a commitment to sustainability (i.e. green schools, like Mundo Verde and Yu Ying)?

No one ever in the charter school movement has said "every school must teach the same way".  For you to think anyone is saying that here is freaky and you sound like you have no idea what's going on.  This debate (for lack of a better word) is about how decisions are made re: not only who gets to apply on paper, but who gets special consideration, or not special consideration.   And the root is in the strings that came attached to receiving federal funds for these schools.

No one is revising history.  You just have not been able to follow along in the conversation.[/quote]

This was addressing some of the previous posters who clearly want to butt heads with the very notion that Yu Ying has expectations of Chinese immersion.

How does "equal access" read in this conversation?  It reads foolishly, because in this thread, it's NOT reading as "equal access for students on equal footing".  Maybe you have your own idea of this but clearly it's not the same as what others are saying and how this thread has been reading.

It's reading as "I don't care what they do, I just want to get my kid into a good school"

But that effectively turns into, "Why not put a kid who knows zilch about Mandarin in with kids who already have 4 years of it under their belts"

Which is as foolish as "Why not throw the kid who can't swim into the deep end of the pool which is for experienced swimmers?"

Or, "why not wander into a store and leave a 2-year-old crawling around outside unattended on a busy street corner, since adults can manage by themselves just fine there?"

Do you not agree that the this premise is fundamentally foolish?  Let's establish and agree on that first before moving on to anything else.[/quote]

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