On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
*** No it's inferred from your drive-by comment, given in like spirit. > 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." *** We must not be speaking the same language. I was simply stating a fact, unless you think students divide like amoebae when one switches from a non-charter to a charter. >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 -- think the consequence for the school is >more important than the consequence for the child. *** You read what wasn't there, nor are you any good at mind-reading. > 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 *** What concerns me is that using tax dollars to pay for schools with a success frequency analogous to small businesses is not good for the national interest, nor for the kids. The status quo is not a good alternative either. Doubting charters doesn't limit one to rejecting any reform. http://epi.3cdn.net/b4b5f5e1cb94bc5659_zpm6bnbpb.pdf _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
