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Money isn't being taken out of schools when students go to charters. It's just going to different ones.
by HDThoreaun 3y ago
Money isn't being taken out of schools when students go to charters. It's just going to different ones.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoAt the end of the day its still a hollowing out of the school districts budget to make room for a private industry to exist. It really shouldn’t be a goal because this is fundamentally more inefficient than just fixing whatever perceptions are bad about the district.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoFixing a monopoly that has little incentive to improve is incredibly difficult. Without competition there is no reason for the public school districts to improve.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoBut public schools have no shareholders, no profit motive. Competition doesn't incentivize any behavior in this case. There is no one who is incentivized to grow the school system and out compete other entities like in the for profit shareholder model.
- hoppery 3y agoOne might consider the democratic elections of school boards and governments a form of competition, however antiquated it may be.
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- treeman79 3y agoReality. Those schools are not going to get fixed. Solution, let parents they care send kids to ones that are better.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoOf course they will get ‘fixed’ over enough time. Neighborhoods change. What is now the bougie upper east side used to be squalid tenements. However if all those bougie kids end up in a charter instead, don’t be surprised when performance doesn’t budge much. Its basically hollywood accounting, the schools overall aren’t any better or worse, you merely concentrate the worst performers in one area to ostensibly improve stats in another. You don’t need a for profit charter system to do that if that is the goal.