kemmer wrote:
Nuh-uh. You’re advocating the end of free public education for all. Only the cream will be educated if you have your way. The more uneducated people, the better for demogogues like Trump.
In a word, bullshit.
One of the many factors involved in the failure of "inner city" schools is the identity politics. Disruptive "students" from myriad single parent families who abuse drugs or simply have no respect beat up other students and even teachers and don't even get suspended because it would be "racism."
They turn the schools into free-for-alls so that those children who want to learn and get out of poverty don't stand a chance.
The charter schools offer those who are serious about an education to get one.
I'll also point out that the main reason they can't take more students is space. In large, "liberal" run cities where developers and well heeled unions rule the roost (yes, there is much more corruption afoot in cities and states run by "progressives," a sad state of affairs, but there it is) the politicians sing for their supper by denying charter schools the classroom space they need, because those teachers' unions' bucks come in real handy, just like the baksheesh from developers who need lots to build condos on.
So yeah, the all-or-nothing attitude of you portsiders needs to play second fiddle to the more humane idea of salvaging as many futures as possible within the boundaries of what we have to work with.
I have no clue as to how much you get out, but I've always been a "see for myself" kind of guy rather than one whose opinions are based on theory or the words of so-called "opinion makers." I talk candidly with a wide variety of people, and spent a good part of my younger years working at such diverse endeavors as Coast Guardsman, tugboat deckhand, retail manager, warehouse manager, bricklayer, mass production coffee blender, Wall Streeter (commodities), handyman, casino security supervisor, etc. One meets a good cross section of humanity and gets a good feel for people, to say nothing of hands-on reality and human nature when one leads such a diverse working life.
Later, running my own security business, I occasionally got some good glimpses into the darker side of human nature, including some very real threats to public safety and our form of government that you "liberals" force the rest of us to welcome to America in the name of "diversity" or some such silliness.
Perhaps it's all that life experience that has made me so aware of the threat you and the people who tell you what to think pose to our great country, you by your vote, them by their total control of your "opinions."