I am afraid that Trump’s choice of Education Secretary demonstrates a hostile attitude toward public education. Teaching is a really really hard job. Any damage to the public education system has to make it a harder job. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to let parents have a choice of schools,as long as the money for the charter schools doesn’t come out of the public school budget, or damage them in any other way. Most of them are doing the best they can, need a lot more money than they are getting, and don’t get to devise sneaky ways to reject any kid who is going to present a problem. I taught in a charter school for a year after retiring from a public school. The teachers are paid about 2/3 of what they could make in a public school, never get tenure, and the salary tops out in five years, versus 15-20 years in a public school. Naturally, they get very few experienced teachers. The only other experienced teacher at the charter school where I taught had failed to make tenure at her public school. The new graduates that made up most of the staff were the leftovers after the public schools got the cream of the crop, and they were uniformly demoralized. After two years, only one out of about 20 was still teaching. In other words, you had a very inferior teaching staff compared to a public school. Charter schools can and do get to choose their kids, even though there are rules that they ignore to prevent it. And, they still don’t have any better results than the home schools the kids come from. The magnet schools in Saint Louis city schools do have better results, and they do it without damaging anyone else. In a charter school, as little money as possible is spent on education, and that money is spent by people with little experience in education, so a lot of it is wasted. The company is interested in making money, education isn’t a priority.
I think whenever a picture of her is shown, it should have a dollar figure on it, showing how much she and her family paid to be where she is. $200M, over the years, wasn’t it?
And she’ll be working hard with Pence to burn that silly first amendment thing about government not establishing religion, like taxpayers funding religious charter schools with the funds stolen from public schools.
phredturner over 7 years ago
The alt-right certainly doesn’t want a better educated electorate.
Diane Lee Premium Member over 7 years ago
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Dianne Lee GC INSIDER • less than a minute ago
I am afraid that Trump’s choice of Education Secretary demonstrates a hostile attitude toward public education. Teaching is a really really hard job. Any damage to the public education system has to make it a harder job. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to let parents have a choice of schools,as long as the money for the charter schools doesn’t come out of the public school budget, or damage them in any other way. Most of them are doing the best they can, need a lot more money than they are getting, and don’t get to devise sneaky ways to reject any kid who is going to present a problem. I taught in a charter school for a year after retiring from a public school. The teachers are paid about 2/3 of what they could make in a public school, never get tenure, and the salary tops out in five years, versus 15-20 years in a public school. Naturally, they get very few experienced teachers. The only other experienced teacher at the charter school where I taught had failed to make tenure at her public school. The new graduates that made up most of the staff were the leftovers after the public schools got the cream of the crop, and they were uniformly demoralized. After two years, only one out of about 20 was still teaching. In other words, you had a very inferior teaching staff compared to a public school. Charter schools can and do get to choose their kids, even though there are rules that they ignore to prevent it. And, they still don’t have any better results than the home schools the kids come from. The magnet schools in Saint Louis city schools do have better results, and they do it without damaging anyone else. In a charter school, as little money as possible is spent on education, and that money is spent by people with little experience in education, so a lot of it is wasted. The company is interested in making money, education isn’t a priority.
Mr. Blawt over 7 years ago
She paid $950,000 to the Republican Senate to buy the right to destroy your children’s education.
vorpal7 over 7 years ago
Trump wins again… Lovin’ it!
Kip W over 7 years ago
I think whenever a picture of her is shown, it should have a dollar figure on it, showing how much she and her family paid to be where she is. $200M, over the years, wasn’t it?
Dtroutma over 7 years ago
And she’ll be working hard with Pence to burn that silly first amendment thing about government not establishing religion, like taxpayers funding religious charter schools with the funds stolen from public schools.