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Anonymous asked: "school choice" is another tactic the rich use to set different groups of poor people against each other. It takes tax dollars and students out of the districts where they are most needed, while still allowing rich (white) districts to maintain their advantages, i.e. access/opportunity that no charter school will ever be able to build on its own. There's not even a guarantee that they'll try. Charter schools can be for-profit scams, easily.

Passing charter school legislation is only a chip in the door.

The Teachers union has done diddely squat for our children. The average public school system is failing our kids. Public school systems are doing diddely squat for little Black children who look like me. The solution is not charter schools, but charter schools are an option, and can show that innovation can work.

Unlike a public school, which you seem so worried about losing money from, if a charter school fails, it closes. If the teachers suck, they get fired.

I think you’re blinding yourself to the fact that taking one step at a time is how to resolve the education problem. Sitting on our hands as grown ups and saying that we’re worried about taking money from our FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS to try something innovative is counterproductive.  

Innovation is what the public school system needs, and the way that it currently stands, within the public school system, innovation is squashed like a bug before it even gets the opportunity to get out of its chrysalis.

Don’t give me that scam shit. Public schools, as they function right now, are a scam. They scam little black minds. They scam little latino minds. They scam the mind of any parent who isn’t white into believing their child might actually have equal opportunity in education.

Sending black children from good grades in elementary school and junior high to D’s and dropping out in high school, and still being unprepared for community college, is a scam.

I would rather have a group of free public charter schools offered that are for-profit institutions for poor and working class black families to just sit around with my thumbs shoved up my ass arguing about money if it means that kids are going to learn.

Politics don’t mean shit if we are under-preparing our next generations. Making this an adult problem is a scam. Kids can’t vote, but I can, and I stand up for charter schools, not coddling some adults who clearly aren’t doing shit about the problem right now.