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eileennatural · 14 days ago

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saw a tim scott ad on behalf of the republican running for senate for PA that made me mad for two reasons 1. Please stay out of pennsylvania business, tim. 2. The ad was mostly focused on how bob casey is "racist" for not supporting school choices. Which yeah I can see how you might get there but only if you've never spent more than 5 minutes thinking abt the issue. And this is important bc philly has lots of charyer schools ofc. yes charter schools position themselves as an alternative to the overtly racist public education system (housing segregation -> low property values in urban neighborhoods-> underfunded schools) but they are not under any circumstances a solution to the problem they're barely even a bandaid. But honestly I can't even get into it i wrote a 20 ish page paper on this my junior year of college which I actually presented at a conference in philly lol

#basically charter schools dont produce reliably better school performance they shift the burden of responsibility for a quality public #service (education) off of the government and onto parents who are already likely overworked and underpaid #they decrease racial diversity in schools (charter schools in predominantly black neighborhoods tend to be hypersegregated #while charter schools in predominanlty white more affluent neighborhoods are more white than the public schools #i could go on. but hey who could have guessed that school choice. of which the modern version today was basically invented #to prevent the racial integration of public schools could ever be racist. also they lack accountability and oversight #the hiring standards for teachers are much lower etc. the kids whose parents dont take the initative to find them a charter school #or who dont get picked in the lottery are fhcked over bc they are stuck in a poorly funded school whose resources are dwindling #thanks to school choice. whateverr why cant we all just acknowledge that the best choice is to reform public school funding

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