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The entire point of opposing school vouchers is that the people pushing them and their implementation of school vouchers would devastate local school systems. T
by fzeroracer 8y ago
The entire point of opposing school vouchers is that the people pushing them and their implementation of school vouchers would devastate local school systems. There are some charter school successes, but that also ignores the many charter school failures [1] and the fact that again, they are barely beholden to any scrutiny. Charter schools also have a financial incentive to expel underperforming students in order to raise their average test scores rather than accommodate and improve their curriculum.
And again, the problem is racism. White flight exists. It is why public schooling in those neighborhoods is so bad to begin with and to ignore the history of racism in the public schooling system does a disservice to your argument.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_"Superman"#Educational_reception_and_allegations_of_inaccuracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_"Superman"#Educa...
- stcredzero 8y agoThe entire point of opposing school vouchers is that the people pushing them and their implementation of school vouchers would devastate local school systems Just because particular schools close, doesn't mean something bad is happening. In a market that actually works, no one is too big to fail. And again, the problem is racism. White flight exists. It is why public schooling in those neighborhoods is so bad to begin with Thomas Sowell remembers attending a very good school in Harlem, and that the neighborhood was safe enough for him to sleep outside on the fire escape, if it was too hot on a summer evening. The key difference has been effect of the welfare state on those neighborhoods, and the resulting degradation of the social fabric there, not the flight of white people. https://youtu.be/mS5WYp5xmvI?t=996 https://youtu.be/mS5WYp5xmvI?t=996