Let me get out of this forum. I am a public school teacher in L.A. who believes charters are a panacea for education’s ills. What people here call anti-choice I see as pro-student. Attendance guarantees means charters can’t cherry pick top students and bump out lower achieving students, which does happen. This is a good thing. To #6, I don’t really believe you have children in school because what parent would want to eliminate human teachers and relegate their physical education course to playing with neighbors?
I think free market fans become so enamored with Friedman that they fail to see that the theory can’t always be applied to all professions. Do you really want cheap labor teachers for children? I can tell you my charter colleagues always stay young because they burn out before they reach 30. I want a veteran teacher for my own children, who teaches for good old fashioned passion and to educate youth. Were any of you in this forum educated by cheap labor? Was Friedman?
