How does restricting what teachers can teach benefit privatization of education?
I don’t think that’s the end game here, I think they want to manipulate schools to produce adults more sympathetic to conservative ideals, and apparently emotional intelligence is antithetical to that. Maybe it’s not that organized and they just want to rile up their base with something CRT-like to get a better chance in the elections. I just don’t see a lot of profit in demonizing the school system. I guess maybe they’re trying to sell textbooks to charter and private schools? I personally think short term and long term elections are the more likely drivers here.
I can see that strategy for healthcare (i.e. pharma) and communications (ISPs, mobile networks, etc). Those can easily be monopolies, and monopolies are good for profit.
They absolutely are, but I don’t think it’s to “make rich people richer” argument, but instead to get parents on their side (i.e. we’re in favor of freedom of education, meaning parents have more control). That’s the short-term election angle, but SEL doesn’t really impact that at all.
I personally am in favor of charter schools (my kids attend one) and public schools, and I think we should be making it easier for kids (not adults) to choose between them. That means improving mass transit and perhaps ending school buses so all schools are on a level playing field, both in terms of funding and school access. I think charter schools make public schools better by increasing competition and pushing schools to specialize. We picked our charter school because the admin sucked at our public school, which caused a lot of churn in teachers (many teacher left after 1-2 years), and our charter school didn’t have that problem. They’ve since replaced the admin, but I think that’s mostly because parents could take their child elsewhere if they didn’t like the school. We intend for our kids to go to the regular public school after they finish at this one (they’re in K-6, and they’ll move to the public school for 7-12).
However, I absolutely hate the Republican rhetoric around education. They constantly point to public schools as some kind of socialist demon, and that’s absolutely not the case.
How does restricting what teachers can teach benefit privatization of education?
I don’t think that’s the end game here, I think they want to manipulate schools to produce adults more sympathetic to conservative ideals, and apparently emotional intelligence is antithetical to that. Maybe it’s not that organized and they just want to rile up their base with something CRT-like to get a better chance in the elections. I just don’t see a lot of profit in demonizing the school system. I guess maybe they’re trying to sell textbooks to charter and private schools? I personally think short term and long term elections are the more likely drivers here.
I can see that strategy for healthcare (i.e. pharma) and communications (ISPs, mobile networks, etc). Those can easily be monopolies, and monopolies are good for profit.
Charter schools are a huge Republican initiative
And also a huge obama initiative and what he is spending all of his time since leaving office doing.
They absolutely are, but I don’t think it’s to “make rich people richer” argument, but instead to get parents on their side (i.e. we’re in favor of freedom of education, meaning parents have more control). That’s the short-term election angle, but SEL doesn’t really impact that at all.
I personally am in favor of charter schools (my kids attend one) and public schools, and I think we should be making it easier for kids (not adults) to choose between them. That means improving mass transit and perhaps ending school buses so all schools are on a level playing field, both in terms of funding and school access. I think charter schools make public schools better by increasing competition and pushing schools to specialize. We picked our charter school because the admin sucked at our public school, which caused a lot of churn in teachers (many teacher left after 1-2 years), and our charter school didn’t have that problem. They’ve since replaced the admin, but I think that’s mostly because parents could take their child elsewhere if they didn’t like the school. We intend for our kids to go to the regular public school after they finish at this one (they’re in K-6, and they’ll move to the public school for 7-12).
However, I absolutely hate the Republican rhetoric around education. They constantly point to public schools as some kind of socialist demon, and that’s absolutely not the case.
Every dollar spent on charter schools undermines public education.