(January 16, 2014 at 10:50 pm)Polaris Wrote: If a state like Texas had education requirements that high (relative to the rest of the nations that is) and still does stuff like this, I'd have to say America's education system as a whole isn't worth salvaging.
Public education the way it is done now in America on the whole doesn't work. That is the entire point of the charter school movement. To reform the way public education is approached while having some autonomy to do things a little differently--the caveat being that each school is held accountable for improved student performance. This is why this is so sad. Taxpayer dollars sent to these schools where politicians and priests are hijacking the curriculum to satisfy a religious agenda and calling it education. Meanwhile the reading scores in these charter programs actually fell significantly and the mathematics showed no improvement.
The worst part is that in so many inner cities, charter programs do so much good. This sheds a tainted light on those programs.
