• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    As should charter schools, they’re a market capitalist trojan horse to give what little funding is left in public ed to the rich. Some may claim to be “non-profit” but they all hire publically traded, FOR PROFIT charter management corporations. They steal the funding from public schools with each student to line wall street profits. And many of them advertise proudly how they preach greedy conservative ideologies.

    Challenger Charter Schools advertises in my area literally with a student saying he was taught “to want friends that can take care of themselves.” jfc

    Pretty fake front end hiding the orphan crushing, for profit backend. The owner class uses charity and non-profit good will as just another vector for their con game.

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      10 months ago

      Just looking up the term and I can’t agree with this?

      Where I am we have some pretty good alternative schools that operate on different curriculum and methodology that I as an educator would rank far better than the slow to update public system.

      I’m all for say putting some cap on them to stop profit generation, but the idea of banning schools operating outside of the mainstream curriculum would set back education as a whole as these places help provide new paedagogical practices.