Here comes a system that threatens to give some more power to lower income families, and the suggestion is that those systems should be abolished because it giv

Here comes a system that threatens to give some more power to lower income families, and the suggestion is that those systems should be abolished because it gives some parents/families more power than others. That is utterly insane. To disallow these other systems from existing is to perpetuate the idea that poor -- and usually black families -- need the state to decide what is best for them and their children. THAT is the really racist point of view. There is this alarming trend in our politics which seems to have decided that the poorer and blacker you are, the less you ought to be trusted with your and your own family's livelihood. It's amazing for me to see all of the teachers that I know (I work in the ed. industry) speak often about trying to get into better placements in other schools and whatnot, but at the same time, when it comes to choice and mobility for lower income families, somehow then the "obvious" decision is to force them to be in the system that has systematically underserved them for decades. If the arguments about needing to put money into public schools is real, and that the exit of certain students to charter schools serves to further undermine the quality of public education, then let's really go all out: Let's forbid charter schools from developing and let's strictly enforce the publicly-funded neighborhood school. But then, let's do the same with administrators, teachers, and staff: Let's have them all be assigned to a school, without any possibility of re-assignment. See how well teachers/unions/NAACP like that policy...