Charter school issues are not just a North Carolina thing....
Brookland-Cayce AD sounds off on Gray Collegiate as Lexington 2 schools face fines
Brookland-Cayce AD sounds off on Gray Collegiate as Lexington 2 schools face fines
More Issues With Charters
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Everyone was crying about parochials and ignored charters @btango called this 10 years ago.
But it’s about choice.::
I’m giving my child a better education…
Most charters don’t do that…
That’s because you’re a liberal (this one is very ironic to me 🤷♂️)…
The lottery!!!
Cliff notes for some of the responses that are coming very soon…
So, in case no one read the article, I'm going to include one quote. "Academically, Gray’s high school students are in class four hours a day, sometimes in a morning or afternoon block. The rest of the day can include free time, sports practices or other extra-curricular activities."
That, just in itself, would be enough for me to choose to send my kid there. The only reason we go to school for such long hours (unlike how students throughout most of Europe go for 5-6 hours and are released by 2) is because Saint John Dewey and his acolytes came up with a system way back during the first world war and we can't possibly change a system that's been in place for over a century.
I mean, we absolutely have to maintain a system that mirrors the industrial workplace even though only about 20% of our population now works in a factory-because reasons.
The AD in that piece is upset that his school can't be as flexible as the charter. The thing is that I want schools to have greater flexibility. But only schools that operate outside the traditional education bureaucracy seem to manage that and I'd just as soon let at least some students escape that system than trap everyone in it "because we've always done it this way".
That, just in itself, would be enough for me to choose to send my kid there. The only reason we go to school for such long hours (unlike how students throughout most of Europe go for 5-6 hours and are released by 2) is because Saint John Dewey and his acolytes came up with a system way back during the first world war and we can't possibly change a system that's been in place for over a century.
I mean, we absolutely have to maintain a system that mirrors the industrial workplace even though only about 20% of our population now works in a factory-because reasons.
The AD in that piece is upset that his school can't be as flexible as the charter. The thing is that I want schools to have greater flexibility. But only schools that operate outside the traditional education bureaucracy seem to manage that and I'd just as soon let at least some students escape that system than trap everyone in it "because we've always done it this way".
