TeamMisha t1_j9jviy1 wrote
In recent years parental choice is being championed across the country it seems, so I'm all for raising (or eliminating) the arbitrary cap on charters to give parents more choice. There seems to be big demand from parents, and I can understand why. The last time the cap was discussed there definitely seemed to be a big outpouring of support. At this point it's a fallacy to say just throwing more money at the DOE will "solve" the problems at our public schools, we already have one of the highest spending rate per student yet we still have minority children who can't read proficiently, clearly the issues are more deeply rooted and beyond simply burning money.
nybx4life t1_j9jytxx wrote
I'm wondering what's going on to have such a bad rate of return.
Is it just incompetence of staff? Embezzlement of funds? Or is it something else?
If we have such a high rate of spending per student, teacher horror stories of them having to buy pencils and papers for kids shouldn't be happening, as schools would have the money for it.
TeamMisha t1_j9jzx1o wrote
No idea friend, smarter minds then me are needed to investigate this! I would guess it is very multifaceted, between teaching styles, staffing, the culture of learning, neighborhood makeups, home life, etc. Some things are not easy to address, if you have an area with a lot of students with bad home lives, school can only do so much to help, especially if the system is rigid and can't easily give extra non-educational resources to those students. If a student simply was raised to have a disdain for education, lack respect, etc. that is not something you can easily solve with just money. Are charter curriculums better for these situations? Those are the kind of questions we'd wanna check. I'm not gonna say it's just a case of well union DOE teacher = bad, charter teacher = good. There are definitely bad teachers, regardless of school, but it goes beyond just that.
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