Charter School Vote Map
Here is a map that shows the areas of support and opposition for I-1240 by precinct in King County.
It shows that charter schools are something that people want for others but few want for themselves.
It shows that charter schools are something that people want for others but few want for themselves.
Comments
http://www.yeson1240.com/our-supporters/
Macfarlane (DFER, ha ha 'Democrats' For Education Refoem) and Sundquist (beaten by Marty Mclaren for school board) who are public backers of 1240.
Burgess wants to be Mayor of Seattle - a city which overwhelmingly voted against 1240, and, which apparently isn't too impressed with Bill Gate$ & friend$ buying elections.
Burgess who couldn't tell Melissa "Yes" or "No" on a pro charter good old boy pot of gold ballot initiative.
While I personally know people who like fire and brimstone politics, it sure is reasonable to look at the distribution of anti-1240 charter votes in Seattle, and the backers of Burgess, and ask Burgess
WhichSideAreYouOn?
Is anyone actually interesting in improving academic performance?
In Math the the SPS has rarely indicated much interest.
Education needs to function a lot more efficiently .. but unfortunately the thrust is to remove all power from teachers.... So Sad,
So family function has a huge impact on public education .... yet that is largely beyond the control of the public schools.
Education is buried in a huge landslide of propaganda.
-- Dan Dempsey
_Long gone
I am not trying to be obtuse, but why do you think people/pricints that voted yes to charters "wanted them for someone else?". My read is that people are fed up with being "toyed with" and want the possibility to take their own schools, their own white, affluent public schools, "off the grid" via a conversion charter and leave the school district shinanigans behind. Yes, Bellevue is a high performing district with high performing schools, but seems like some people are more comfortable with more control. Think of it as a 'cherry on top' of a gated community.
-not sure
Well, I read the Issaquah Press article on 1240 and the people quoted said 'we don't need those here but others do". Same at the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Nope, they believe charters are for other people's children.
I have said this before but the proof is in New Jersey, charters have moved to the tony (and high-performing)suburbs. Guess what? When you have high-performing school districts, they don't like having charters coming in lessening their pot of money. Those suburbanites thought they were just for those poor kids in Newark.
Thank you to the Times for this map.
Steve
Oompah
Bellevue, on the other hand, did choose charters, as did most of the rest of the Eastside, Kent, and south King County. They should go ahead and create lots of them.
That's their choice.
Unfortunately, what we're likely to see will be charter schools trying to form in Seattle, where people chose against them and not in suburban areas where the people chose for them. How does that represent choice? It seems to reflect the opposite of choice, the opposite of self-determination, the opposite of democracy.
If we had choice, then the charter schools would come to the communities that want them, not the communities that don't.
I was raised in the burbs, where people are proud of living near Seattle and want it to have good schools. Ask any suburban Puget Sounder where they live when they get more than 50 miles from home and they'll invariably say "Seattle" first.
But all they read is the Times in Shoreline and South Snohomish County, and in East King County, along with the conservative, business friendly Eastside Journal.
They love the city, but believe it's schools have standards that reward and promote the Silas Potters of the world.
Tell them your kids go to Garfield, and they'll be petrified. They have been so misinformed, for so long, most think we still have mandatory desegregation and busing "in the city."
Northwesterners are a provincial lot folks. We should all own up to that by now and realize how it chokes the flow of accurate information. We love our neighborhood blogs, but our paper of record sucks. And when our burb friends come to visit us, they are always surprised at how nice "our" neighborhood is, unaware that there are about 50 "good" neighborhoods throughout Seattle.
Silas Potter is on page 1, for 5 weeks. Garfield graduated multiple valedictorians and national merit scholars winds up on page 8. Silas Potter gets more ink because he sells more papers. If it bleeds, it leads, as they say in TV news.
Yes, I'm generalizing like mad. But, there you have it in a nutshell.
WSDWG
Charlie: That's been my position for years. If the community wants them, versus gets duped into supporting them, then I'm all for it. I believe in local control and parents having a say in their school, because it should invite and result in greater parent involvement.
But many charters do the opposite. Parents have no rights, no school board to complain to, bureaucratic principals and leadership that brushes them off like Comcast. So people really need to consider these options in great detail, from A to Z, before hopping on the charter bandwagon.
There are people who hate - absolutely hate - unions and think the teachers are terrible because of them (as are the schools).
Naturally, they have no data to back that up but they say it anyway.
Whenever you challenge them on if they like the police union or firefighters union, they go strangely silent. So teachers unions might be the first to go but wait for it and then wait a REAL battle.
Damn unions.
1240 is in deal with it the no side lost!!!
.... well maybe NOT
Try reading the WA State Constitution.
Of course the courts often ignore laws and the Constitution depending how ithe desires and nterests of oligarchs may be effected.
-- Dan Dempsey
Rick James said...
1240 is in deal with it, the "no" side lost!!!
.... well maybe NOT
Try reading the WA State Constitution.
Of course the courts often ignore laws and the Constitution depending how the desires and interests of oligarchs may be effected.
-- Dan Dempsey