Sunday, July 30, 2006
The Bottom Line
Caroline Mason, the head of school at the private Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls, has an interesting piece in the Albany Times Union today, responding to a recent editorial on charter schools in general, and Brighter Choice Charter School in particular. Interesting take, for sure, but for me, this is the money graph:
"The overarching question before all of us should be how can independent, parochial, charter and public schools work together to ensure the delivery of a student population that can compete successfully in a global economy and become ethical, contributing citizens of a flattening world? All of the bickering over tax dollars and the rights of one educational movement over another amounts to fiddling while Rome burns, a practice, given the challenges before us, in which we dare not indulge."
I'm not a big fan of the flat-Earth stuff, but you've gotta groove on idea of communities taking responsibility across all sectors for the education of all kids. This seems particularly important considering all these federal reports that keep finding that private schools are just as bad as public schools.
"The overarching question before all of us should be how can independent, parochial, charter and public schools work together to ensure the delivery of a student population that can compete successfully in a global economy and become ethical, contributing citizens of a flattening world? All of the bickering over tax dollars and the rights of one educational movement over another amounts to fiddling while Rome burns, a practice, given the challenges before us, in which we dare not indulge."
I'm not a big fan of the flat-Earth stuff, but you've gotta groove on idea of communities taking responsibility across all sectors for the education of all kids. This seems particularly important considering all these federal reports that keep finding that private schools are just as bad as public schools.
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