"I sent my students to charter schools were they were able to compete"
...the breitbart shill says.
If the public schools were so bad, how were her students equipped to compete in the charter schools? One would think they'd be behind and struggle to catch up.
"There are people who consider the charter school experiment to be about the functioning of competitive markets," Raymond said.
"You'd expect underperforming schools would be recognized and students and parents would act accordingly... but whether you're looking at authorizing, closing or parents choosing other schools this part doesn't seem to be working." The study comes at a time when charter schools are receiving increased attention as President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are encouraging the opening of more charter schools.
My daughter was in public schools through 6th grade and then transfered to a private school. I was told that it probably would be difficult for her because the other kids had been in the school since kindergarten and would naturally be ahead of my daughter academically. Turned out my daughter was at the head of her class and the only student to pass the state competency test on the first try as a senior.
What I discovered as a parent is that there is a belief and an expectation that private schools are superior to public but that isn't necessarily a fact.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
