Emmanuel Macron has sparked protests after appointing an education minister who sent her own children to private school. France’s school system has never delivered real equality — but as the rich flock to the private sector, it’s only getting worse.
As should charter schools, they’re a market capitalist trojan horse to give what little funding is left in public ed to the rich. Some may claim to be “non-profit” but they all hire publically traded, FOR PROFIT charter management corporations. They steal the funding from public schools with each student to line wall street profits. And many of them advertise proudly how they preach greedy conservative ideologies.
Challenger Charter Schools advertises in my area literally with a student saying he was taught “to want friends that can take care of themselves.” jfc
Pretty fake front end hiding the orphan crushing, for profit backend. The owner class uses charity and non-profit good will as just another vector for their con game.
Just looking up the term and I can’t agree with this?
Where I am we have some pretty good alternative schools that operate on different curriculum and methodology that I as an educator would rank far better than the slow to update public system.
I’m all for say putting some cap on them to stop profit generation, but the idea of banning schools operating outside of the mainstream curriculum would set back education as a whole as these places help provide new paedagogical practices.
Only reason I disagree is because expats (and I mean actual expats not the ‘I use expat to say immigrant but white’ kind of expat) exist, I would have been royally turned around if I had to switch from a French based public education system to my home country’s public education system when my family moved back home at the end of my parents’ work tour
I know kids of an expat family that did exactly that, switched from a French public education system to an American (NYC) system when the family moved. They had no problems at all.
Private schools should be banned. The rich and powerful don’t care about the public system when they don’t use it. Worse, they want to destroy it.
I’d settle for private institution not receiving public funding…
As should charter schools, they’re a market capitalist trojan horse to give what little funding is left in public ed to the rich. Some may claim to be “non-profit” but they all hire publically traded, FOR PROFIT charter management corporations. They steal the funding from public schools with each student to line wall street profits. And many of them advertise proudly how they preach greedy conservative ideologies.
Challenger Charter Schools advertises in my area literally with a student saying he was taught “to want friends that can take care of themselves.” jfc
Pretty fake front end hiding the orphan crushing, for profit backend. The owner class uses charity and non-profit good will as just another vector for their con game.
Just looking up the term and I can’t agree with this?
Where I am we have some pretty good alternative schools that operate on different curriculum and methodology that I as an educator would rank far better than the slow to update public system.
I’m all for say putting some cap on them to stop profit generation, but the idea of banning schools operating outside of the mainstream curriculum would set back education as a whole as these places help provide new paedagogical practices.
Only reason I disagree is because expats (and I mean actual expats not the ‘I use expat to say immigrant but white’ kind of expat) exist, I would have been royally turned around if I had to switch from a French based public education system to my home country’s public education system when my family moved back home at the end of my parents’ work tour
I know kids of an expat family that did exactly that, switched from a French public education system to an American (NYC) system when the family moved. They had no problems at all.