re: NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools

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Colored people sure do piss me right off

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Which color makes you so mad?

You know, in the UK, there are no colored people.











Only coloured people...

Public money is involved. They have been cut out of the loop involving charter school money. They want their cut.

Privately managed charter schools approved a resolution that included language calling for the NAACP to go frick themselves.

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Public money is involved. They have been cut out of the loop involving charter school money. They want their cut.

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In many cases, they are getting their cut.

Deion Sanders started a set of charter schools in Dallas and Fort Worth.

They have both been closed because of political and financial malfeasance (surprise, surprise, huh?).

Looked at the demographics of the now-closed Dallas campus, and it was 92 percent black.

When your entire life is based on entitlements, why bother to get an education anyway?

Tried that, well at least here anyway. The Scottlandville area schools tired to break away from EBR way before Central and Zachary. Had its own bus system an everything's. City didn't allow it.

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When your entire life is based on entitlements, why bother to get an education anyway?

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Do you guys truly believe this of the black community ? (If so then there is a conversation to be had).

On the other hand, this could just be a social platform where people come to be unabashed racist. Consistianly spewing echo-camber knuckle dragging ideals. Which would make a conversation a huge waste of time.

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i am not sure of the argument but i'm guessing it is...people will take advantage of the funding to create shitty schools and sell them to the various poor/black communities, basically selling shitty schools as the good ones without actually being good, just to make a buck? does that sound about right?

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I believe they are referring to the loss of power and money. There are some really shitty inner city schools, but its their shitty schools. Think about the demographics of the employees that work in those failing schools. If they turn the schools over to a privately managed charter school what happens to those workers, is the issue.

A typical k-8 school with a 75 per grade level (3 classes of 25) would account for around 100 jobs. Teachers, administration, front office, nurse, custodians, cafeteria workers, security, bus drivers, special services. Some of those are good paying middle class jobs, with a pension.

A now a private charter comes in out-sources the custodial, busing, cafeteria staffs to private companies, replaces the veteran teachers with cheaper Teach for America, who leave with their 2 year contracts are up.
Profit.

Schools remain failing, so 4 years later the charters are revoked, the private companies leave town, and the black middle class in those areas just suffered major below to their pockets books.

I'm not arguing the merits of their statement, just that this is about money and power. And their is a lot of money and power in public education. Two Orleans Parish School Board Presidents, since Katrina, are in jail over contracts.

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Do you guys truly believe this of the black community ? (If so then there is a conversation to be had).

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See, I think this is where you are thinking wrong.

I'd be willing to bet a large majority of "white people" (a stupid term in and of itself) don't see all black people as the same.

Especially in the south, most people work alongside decent, hardworking blacks. People we respect and care about.

Are you suggesting that these people are the exact same as the hoodlums we see on TV? That the welfare queen pushing the cart full of steak and crab legs with her little bastard rainbow behind her is the same as the black man swinging a hammer on the job site?

You don't see how lumping the "black community" together as one monolithic entity is a bad thing?