Just recently the School District of Philadelphia had to borrow a few million just to make ends meet. I hear on KYW News Radio 1060 this morning, a report that more than 20 charter school applications are expected to be filed by a mid-November deadline! WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD APPLY TO OPEN UP A CHARTER NOW???????
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the mindset of this movement in Philadelphia!! WITH WHAT MONEY??????
I abhor the charter movement in this town! There is no way you can convince me, especially after this latest idiocy, that any of this is about the kids. They are a pawn and I HATE that! School choice my foot! Politics, power, money, influence, cheap educator labor, turning neighborhoods on their heads, anti-union, favors, nepotism, mine are bigger than yours, all you need is a pulse to teach, systematically dismantle (not fix) the public education system, THIS is what it's all about!!!! Not KIDS!!!!
I'm still adjusting to teaching younger students, but every time I hear of bafoonery like this, I get a renewed sense of purpose and urgency to march my 6-foot, 220 pound dark self into my classroom and create teaching and learning experiences that are out of this world!!!!! Public schools can and do work!! We're not perfect, but as a product of this system and parents who would have nothing less, public schools work!! We have to keep working at it!!!!
Some call me "Flem"
- Dr. Stephen R. Flemming
- I'm an elementary school teacher turned high school English teacher, School-Based Teacher Leader (SBTL), and adjunct professor here in Philly. These posts are the views, as I see them, from room 105, my first classroom number. Enjoy, engage, and share!
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