New Mayor diBlasio of New York City has announced a new plan for dealing with the problem of failing public schools. His answer is to close charter schools that actually educate their students well. This is supposed to help the bad schools.
I am not kidding. DiBlasio announced that a batch of charter schools which have been performing well will no longer get the support of the city. Supposedly, the opposition of the teachers' union to these schools which require teachers to actually perform well has nothing to do with the mayor's bizarre position. He is closing good schools because this is supposed to help the bad ones. How? Will the self-esteem of the bad schools be raised because there will be no good ones to use for comparison.
What about the students who were actually being educated? Are they to be consigned to a future without an education? Must all NYC graduates be functionally illiterate?
I suppose the city is getting what it voted for when it selected someone as leftist as the new mayor. The kids in the charter schools did not get to vote, however, and it is their lives that are being ruined.
I am not kidding. DiBlasio announced that a batch of charter schools which have been performing well will no longer get the support of the city. Supposedly, the opposition of the teachers' union to these schools which require teachers to actually perform well has nothing to do with the mayor's bizarre position. He is closing good schools because this is supposed to help the bad ones. How? Will the self-esteem of the bad schools be raised because there will be no good ones to use for comparison.
What about the students who were actually being educated? Are they to be consigned to a future without an education? Must all NYC graduates be functionally illiterate?
I suppose the city is getting what it voted for when it selected someone as leftist as the new mayor. The kids in the charter schools did not get to vote, however, and it is their lives that are being ruined.
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