I'm Gonna Take You To School!

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Huddle up!  We are facing an opponent that has played a game for almost 50 years!  And it's still playing with the minds of people today.  Old Schools (like your local public school) vs. New schools (charters and such)


Sounds like the old "Separate but Equal" BS.


According to Wikipedia: Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States Constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities were to remain equal. The phrase was derived from a Louisiana law of 1890.-  Separate but equal: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article) from Answers.com


Sounds similar?


You and I with the help of a good writer can start a charter. They're not following any program developed by a trusted educator like Montessori, Piaget or Steiner.

MUPPET NEWS FLASH! The Beginning w Children Foundation's CEO makes $600,000 per year!  ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!

The "new" citizenry in my former, now gentrified, neighborhood, are trying to find nearby school options, b/c since they purchased perversely bank-stolen $200K homes for $700k, private school is not an easy option in today's economy. It's not completely racial, but it does have socioeconomic prejudices involved. Blacks and Hispanics do it too, b/c they're afraid of the schools in their own nabes like Bed-Stuy and Brownsville.

So, it's like "Let's send Skipper to "Fancy Name School". They are in the same bldg as the underlings, but they're gonna do something revolutionary!  Bullshit!


There have been a lot of posts on my former neighborhood's Yahoo Groups board about a New School (Junior HS) that has already invaded an  Old elementary (K-6) public school's building, and enjoyed themselves so much, that they want to expand and start their own K-6!


Team, I don't think that these New Schools pay into the pensions, facility management or pay union wages that are an albatross to the education system.  So the $15,000 that the State has riding on the head of each student is not equitable.  


Oh, hell yeah, your Coach has worked in a New School and found out quickly that they're doing no better than any ordinary public school.  They had to work to keep their charter to educate students.  Test scores were just as even as the schools around them with the same socioeconomic dynamic.


Separate but equal must never come to exist again!


In 1954, the Brown vs The Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas ruled: 
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.


Today, in NYC, you have these New School entities sharing and taking space from existing Old public schools, under the guise of, "the building is underused and we need to use up these seats".  The children remain completely separated, and of course the invaded school gets much less support from the powers that be. (And in some cases, its the Dept of Education itself wearing both hats!)


Let's keep the blitz on!


Win on 3!  ONE, TWO, THREE!