Max Sawicky replies: >> A child not in a charter school can't be in a public school. >> It has to do with the laws of thermodynamics. >> As the great physicist Myron Cohen once said, >> "Everybody's gotta be someplace." >> >> How you get your inference from my statement must be the workings >> of the wingnut mindset.
Wingnut? Is that a conclusive insult, in the sense that once you define somebody as a wingnut, they can't be right by definition? Let's imagine neighborhood school, run by the same people who think the post office is the model of efficiency. Charter school opens down the street. Local family has to decide where to send bright little Johnny. Humor me and agree that little Johnny will get a better education and thrive at charter school as opposed to neighborhood school. The consequence is that neighborhood school will have one less quality student, which will reduce revenues and, to humor you, I agree that the absence of little Johnny will somehow cause the other students to do less well than they would if little Johnny was in the classroom. You characterized this as a negative -- the existence of the charter school "drains students from public schools." The fact that the alternative is better for little Johnny and his parents is of less concern to you than the consequence on the neighborhood school. I am reading you fairly and objectively -- you think the consequence for the school is more important than the consequence for the child. In context, you think bright little Johnny exists to improve the neighborhood school, and not that the school exists to educate little Johnny, and if it can't, he should go elsewhere. Call me names, but I am right about what you wrote. David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
