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(43,322 posts)services that have visibly eroded over two generations. Maybe we don't agree on what schools should be. I don't accept charter schools as any viable alternative schooling choice for the public, especially since public schools have never been properly funded in the first place.
Public schooling is absolutely not a business but the public, so enamored with the rich, believe everything the rich and their patronage henchmen tell them to think. The rich never treat their kids' schools as businesses because they know that human capacity building isn't widget making. There should be no public subsidy of private profit.
The whole funding boondoggle politically named "reform" should be taken to court to disallow public funding of business-styled schools.
Charters pretty much say to the public what Romney said: "Don't ask me what the plan and the outcome will be right now. I'll let you know after I get the job."
As for using the internet to rant on pet issues, we have that in common.