Reply #58: Garbage of "choice" . . . interesting phrase -

[mzteris]

sounds like something I'd read elsewhere on other choices that people make.

Why is it "garbage", exactly? Do you not understand that some of us- many of us - not only WANT that choice, but NEED that choice. I mean, you of all people understand the bureaucracy and bs that exists in some schools systems, do you not? And if the system can't or won't change, what are people - who don't have the money for private schools, nor the confidence/ability to homeschool - supposed to do? Just sweat it out? Just sit in a corner and READ when you finish your work 10X faster than every other kid in the room. Or be put in a BEH class because you have a learning difference even though there is nothing wrong with your behaviour? Or be "ignored" by the teacher because the principal because has a beef with your parents? Or be overlooked because you're "good" and quiet and never bother anyone, especially the teacher, even though you have no freaking idea of what's going on in the classroom? Or - well, you get the drift.

What the F is wrong with CHOICE? WTF is wrong with being able to have your child go to a school where they WANT to go every day instead of crying. Where their needs are being individuallly met according to learning style, or personality, or interest, or hey - no institutionalized racism!

Some of these traditional systems are so corrupt and so enmired in the way they "do things" that to effect ANY change at all is nearly impossible. YOU know that! You complain about it nearly every single day.

CHOICE is NOT about "teacher bashing" or "union busting" or any other of the paranoid bs I keeep hearing from the anti-choicers. Its about EDUCATING CHILDREN - in the BEST POSSIBLE WAY FOR THAT CHILD - without COST to that child.

I have stated repeatedly thath I support teachers and believe in higher - much higher - pay. Smaller classrooms. More support. Better opportunities to develop and the flexibility and freedom to actually TEACH instead of this mf testing bs.

I really really really don't get why this is such a problem. FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR ALL! The narrow (and personalized) focus with which so many people view the world is just maddening!

Do you guys see the difference here? I don't BASH you or your choice or your profession. I don't BASH your schools. But you persist, INsist, on bashing and rejecting and insulting the 100's of thousands of students and parents who have CHOSEN alternative forms of education just because you, personally, don't like it. What about those tens of thousands of TEACHERS who CHOOSE to TEACH in an alternative program? Do you "hate" all of them, too? Do you think their real mwwah-ha-ha-haaaa motive is to subvert and destroy the minds of children so that's why they're in a charter program?

Get real here. This witch hunt against people who support other programs - IN ADDITION TO YOURS - has got to stop. I mean. Really. It's just crazy to think that all these "powerful billionaires" want is to destroy the world. (Ok - some republicans do. . . ) You are NOT the only altruistic people on the freakin planet. Do you really believe that OBAMA "hates children" and wants them all to fail? REally? Have you seen the look on his face - and Michelle's - when they are interacting with schoolchildren? DO you think they're so happy cause they're thinking, "WOO HOO. Here's another little kid whose life I get to ruin! yaaayyyyy!

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