Comments on: Department of Education school choice study supressed

By: Steve McGough

Steve McGough — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:08:05 +0000

They are not equal. Ergo, you can't really compare them.

Of course we can, and I'll argue that we must since both systems are managed by the government. Should we avoid comparing public school results to parochial school results as well? If we do not compare, we're complicit with the dumbing down of America's youth.

By: Linda Mae

Linda Mae — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:30:49 +0000

Public schools take each and every student who walks through their doors. Charter schools do not. Public schools need to give the state’s testing. Charter schools do not. Public schools try to get parents to get involved with them and their kids. Charter schools usually have a rule that parents are required to volunteer time in the the classroom. Public schools cannot remove kids who misbehave. Charter schools suggest that they have to leave. I know – many times we’d get an kid whose former teachers either cheered or were sad to see him/her leave and many times we felt the same. Charter schools require parents to fill out an application for acceptance. There are no applications in Public schools. They are not equal. Ergo, you can’t really compare them.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:25:40 +0000

The unions speak, the Democrat Party dances.

It’s not so much that someone has their hand up Obama’s back like a big Howdy Doody marionette, it’s how do so many fit up there at the same time?

Isn’t it just ironic that the group that claims to be “for the children” actually comes out “for the unions?” One wonders out loud why the vote to crush this ability for parents to do the best for their children was rushed when it was known that this study was being done. One doesn’t wonder long.

It should be especially illuminating for black families, inasmuch as they are the ones mostly affected.