School Choice - It's Time

[Jaw]

it provided some modest benefits in chipping away at the baleful effects of the de facto segregation in our country.

Like I said, look into Clayton county. Neither the county or it's residents saw the benefits.

[nsacpi]

Like I said, look into Clayton county. Neither the county or it's residents saw the benefits.

What indicia in Clayton County should I be looking at. And what is the control group to compare it to.

[Jaw]

What indicia in Clayton County should I be looking at. And what is the control group to compare it to.

Crime rate in 1990 vs 2000 or later. School performance as well if you can pull that up somewhere. Even property value.

[nsacpi]

Crime rate in 1990 vs 2000 or later. School performance as well if you can pull that up somewhere. Even property value.

And which county should I compare it with.

[Jaw]

Itself. Atlanta exported people to Clayton in the early 90s, supposedly to make room for Olympic venues.

[nsacpi]

Itself. Atlanta exported people to Clayton in the early 90s, supposedly to make room for Olympic venues.

Well I'll find a county in northern Georgia that didn't take in people exported from Atlanta as my comp. Shouldn't be too hard to find.

[sturg33]

[acesfull86]

https://www.publiccharters.org/our-w...l-and-district

A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic. During the 2020-21 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a decade.

Nearly 240,000 new students enrolled in these innovative, student-centered public schools, despite a sharp decrease in overall public school enrollment during the same period. Of the 42 states evaluated, 39 experienced charter school enrollment increases, while only three saw modest decreases. By comparison, district school enrollment dropped precipitously in every state.


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Progress

[sturg33]

Randi comes out in favor of school choice!

[sturg33]

Paid for by my friend's enormous property taxes

$625 an hour

Gonna need more funding...

[acesfull86]

Remember that time the (D) candidate for governor of Virginia had a fat lead in the polls, then said:

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

and became the first (D) to lose a state-wide office in 12 years?

[Tapate50]

Remember that time the (D) candidate for governor of Virginia had a fat lead in the polls, then said:

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

and became the first (D) to lose a state-wide office in 12 years?

"you clearly don't understand the stats"

[thethe]

Remember that time the (D) candidate for governor of Virginia had a fat lead in the polls, then said:

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

and became the first (D) to lose a state-wide office in 12 years?

This is the sweet spot.

As long as we take our kids out of the indoctrination camps we won't have losers like Zito causing summer of love ruckus.

[acesfull86]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...AwFJXnDKLM8qFw

It has become a refrain on the left and its media echo-chamber following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race: Critical race theory is not being taught in schools. PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor recently accused Republicans of winning by “lying about critical race theory.” Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) declared “there is not a school in Virginia that teaches critical race theory.” Those who say otherwise, we are told, are “dishonest,” hyping a “fake CRT threat,” promoting an “imaginary” issue to “manipulate low information people,” engaging in “race-baiting lies” and blowing a “racist dog whistle.”

This is demonstrably false. Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools, which were ground zero in the debate over the role of parents in their kids’ education, paid $314,000 for critical race theory coaching for its teachers from the Equity Collaborative — a consulting firm that turns critical race theory into practices for "building more equitable learning environments.” In its presentation “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” the Equity Collaborative instructs teachers that racism is “an inherent part of American civilization” and attacks “ideas of colorblindness, the neutrality of the law, incremental change, and equal opportunity for all” for maintaining “whites’ power and strongholds within society.” It also questions “the idea of meritocracy” which “allows the empowered … to feel ‘good’ and have a clear conscience” and concludes with a breakout session for teachers to discuss “How might you use CRT to identify and address systemic oppression in your school, district or organization?”

One Loudoun country parent filed the public record request to find out what took place in these sessions and obtained a set of talking points used by the Equity Collaborative to train Virginia teachers. They were encouraged not to “profess color blindness,” but rather to admit their own “racist, sexist, heterosexist, or other detrimental attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings” and acknowledge that “addressing one’s Whiteness (e.g., white privilege) is crucial for effective teaching.”

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The left’s CRT denial is intellectually dishonest. Just because grade-school students are not studying academic treatises on critical race theory does not mean it is not being taught in schools. Most of these students are also not reading Karl Marx, but if they were being instructed by teachers trained in Marxist thought to see everything through the prism of class struggle, they would be learning Marxism. Well, today children are being instructed by teachers trained in CRT to see everything through the prism of race; to believe that the United States is a systemically racist country; and to believe that society is divided into two classes — oppressors and oppressed — and that which you are is determined by the color of your skin. That is critical race theory.

[acesfull86]

To be clear, I don’t think government should be banning CRT…the solution is we need school choice throughout the country

[sturg33]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...AwFJXnDKLM8qFw

It has become a refrain on the left and its media echo-chamber following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race: Critical race theory is not being taught in schools. PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor recently accused Republicans of winning by “lying about critical race theory.” Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) declared “there is not a school in Virginia that teaches critical race theory.” Those who say otherwise, we are told, are “dishonest,” hyping a “fake CRT threat,” promoting an “imaginary” issue to “manipulate low information people,” engaging in “race-baiting lies” and blowing a “racist dog whistle.”

This is demonstrably false. Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools, which were ground zero in the debate over the role of parents in their kids’ education, paid $314,000 for critical race theory coaching for its teachers from the Equity Collaborative — a consulting firm that turns critical race theory into practices for "building more equitable learning environments.” In its presentation “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” the Equity Collaborative instructs teachers that racism is “an inherent part of American civilization” and attacks “ideas of colorblindness, the neutrality of the law, incremental change, and equal opportunity for all” for maintaining “whites’ power and strongholds within society.” It also questions “the idea of meritocracy” which “allows the empowered … to feel ‘good’ and have a clear conscience” and concludes with a breakout session for teachers to discuss “How might you use CRT to identify and address systemic oppression in your school, district or organization?”

One Loudoun country parent filed the public record request to find out what took place in these sessions and obtained a set of talking points used by the Equity Collaborative to train Virginia teachers. They were encouraged not to “profess color blindness,” but rather to admit their own “racist, sexist, heterosexist, or other detrimental attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings” and acknowledge that “addressing one’s Whiteness (e.g., white privilege) is crucial for effective teaching.”

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The left’s CRT denial is intellectually dishonest. Just because grade-school students are not studying academic treatises on critical race theory does not mean it is not being taught in schools. Most of these students are also not reading Karl Marx, but if they were being instructed by teachers trained in Marxist thought to see everything through the prism of class struggle, they would be learning Marxism. Well, today children are being instructed by teachers trained in CRT to see everything through the prism of race; to believe that the United States is a systemically racist country; and to believe that society is divided into two classes — oppressors and oppressed — and that which you are is determined by the color of your skin. That is critical race theory.

Wapo 6 months behind, per usual.

But don't worry aces, 57 assures me that it is just white women mad about their kid being taught that slavery happened

[acesfull86]

Wapo 6 months behind, per usual.

But don't worry aces, 57 assures me that it is just white women mad about their kid being taught that slavery happened

Yeah, there’s no doubt people across the spectrum are twisting CRT when it fits their agenda, but the (D) refrain that it doesn’t exist or isn’t being taught in schools is just flat out wrong.

[sturg33]

Yeah, there’s no doubt people across the spectrum are twisting CRT when it fits their agenda, but the (D) refrain that it doesn’t exist or isn’t being taught in schools is just flat out wrong.

[Tapate50]

Garland gonna get toasted for the school board letter

[thethe]

Garland gonna get toasted for the school board letter

Nothing is going to happen.

Democrats do whatever the **** they want.

Rules don't apply to them.