Too Much at Stake

One of the efffects of promoting charter schools has been the resulting competetion for students. This may or may not have been an intended consequence of creating such schools but it is a fact. I'll put on my less cynical mask and say that it wasn't intended.

This is a sad story. Pitting schools against one another. Schools aren't free enterprise entities though I know some people reckon it ought to be that way. A seven year old is entitled to a decent and comprehensive education and it should take place as a matter of fact in our society.

We have gone centuries believing in and adhering to the fact that a public education is inherent in the American Experiment. There is no other way to put it and there is no reason to alter the march in that direction.

Lots of people tout 'American Esceptionalism' and if that is indeed the case then the mainstay of reaching such a lofty goal is to have a single, focused goal of providing the best possible public education .

We don't need competing interests and factions doing the above. We need to pull together and find a way, as we have for decades, to satisfy the 'commons.' There is too much at stake to do otherwise.

Thanks,
Dick