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In reply to the discussion: Why is school choice not a Democratic issue? [View all]Warpy
(114,348 posts)There are schools with a high test failure rate because they use flash cards with blind kids and expect kids with severe autism or cerebral palsy to "fill in the bubble" and fail them when they can't. Your shiny little charter school gets to eliminate those kids from their student body so sometimes they look better on tests. Sometimes they don't since they lowball teachers and supplies to make more money.
Since you don't have any kids, this is all just rhetorical, anyway. When you have them, you might look at it differently. You might even do a little research and find out that local "failing school" actually has a few award winning teachers in it.
In any case, if you ever do have a kid and you don't like how slowly s/he is progressing, you have the option of sitting down with the kid every night with the homework and even some supplementary materials you find online or at the library and help your child achieve his/her best. One beneficiary of that approach is Barack Obama.
Stop falling for right wing rhetoric and do some actual research. You're better than this.