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It's not in a public school's DNA. Tell me, in high school math, are the kids trying to master geometry in the same math class as those taking pre calculus? They are not. Are there AP classes in most medium to large middle and high schools? There are. The schools are capable of doing this and already do so to some extent.
Are any of those classes grouped by ability? Or are they mixed-ability, thereby lowering the level of instruction to focus on getting the struggling to succeed?
And the answer is No. Parent involvement is the key with education.
Not necessarily so. As I noted I followed the attempts to reform the Cleveland school system. There was a percentage of families that wanted to get their kids out of the system and they came up with some alternatives. If a parent cares enough to get this involved obviously they are getting involved. So if a percentage that cared could pull their kids and place them together somewhere else the chance of them all doing better is pretty good.
Unfortunately the alternative was a charter school and as it ended up, those running the charter school were every bit as corrupt as those running the regular public schools.
That's it. There are some legitimate arguments for creating ways to get kids out of some failing systems but his argument is about politics, not the kids.
Pretty much everything. It's Democrats who overwhelmingly oppose school choice/vouchers. Why? Because doing so guarantees Democrats a high-percentage dumbed down and impoverished voter base. I can post the stats, if you wish.
There aren't any stats that you can post to back up your claim. So don't bother.
First not all Democrats oppose vouchers or charter schools. There is a strong presence within the Democratic party for some kind of school reform.
Again, I think the Democrats who do oppose school vouchers at best see vouchers as helping a very small percentage of economically poor students at the expense of the overwhelming number of students who will end up going to public schools while depraving those schools of funding,
Not necessarily so. As I noted I followed the attempts to reform the Cleveland school system. There was a percentage of families that wanted to get their kids out of the system and they came up with some alternatives. If a parent cares enough to get this involved obviously they are getting involved. So if a percentage that cared could pull their kids and place them together somewhere else the chance of them all doing better is pretty good.
Exactly.
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Unfortunately the alternative was a charter school and as it ended up, those running the charter school were every bit as corrupt as those running the regular public schools.
That's exactly why there needs to be unrestricted choice. Restricting choices only sets up the same problems with corruption and unaccountability that we currently have in U.S. public schools. Restricted choices are still a 'captive audience' situation. Doomed from the start to fail.
There aren't any stats that you can post to back up your claim. So don't bother.
Let's take a look at how minority families feel about that...
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"Pro-voucher voters among racial minorities overwhelmingly support Barack Obama, but they are baffled by the Democratic nominee's opposition to vouchers. They also say they are frustrated that Democratic leaders appear to be more concerned about keeping the peace with teachers unions -- which adamantly oppose vouchers -- than about finding alternatives that could advance desperately needed education reforms for minority students.
...Public opinion polls also show solid support for school vouchers among minority parents. Sixty-five percent of adult African-Americans and 63 percent of adult Hispanics favor the use of vouchers, according to a national survey conducted earlier this year under the auspices of the journal Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. In the survey, more than half of minority adults gave higher marks to their local police than their public schools.
"There is no doubt that on this issue, ...Obama has it wrong," Martin wrote."
They actually don't care about academic achievement. They want them dumb so they can't think for themselves and are easier to indoctrinate. These schools along with our universities are the EXACT reason we have such crybabies in this country and everyone is offended. It's all done by design. A divided grievous society is not united. When we are not united, Totalitarianism takes hold. Again, ALL by design from the Progressives, AKA STATISTS.
My school didnt fail me. I graduated high school with a College Preparatory Diploma in 2010 and graduated college last summer with honors.
Get over yourself. What's the graduation rate for all blacks in America coming out of the public school system?
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