As for charter schools, in my experience, they are teacher generated, worked outside of the present bureaucracy, were funded via it and some private money, but were/are deemed, at best, suspicious creatures from the standpoint of the school bureaucracy.
You pointed out earlier that my solution, busting the teacher's union, was almost impossible. Charter/voucher is a sidestep way to do it. That is why the unions fight it so much.
A school principal running a school is like a manager running a franchise with employees. If you are going to hold him responsible for the results, you have to give him hire/fire authority with the teachers. That is the reason for the charter/voucher system. The people involved know it is the only short-term way to get control.
I used to be for it until I realized that the unions would always win the fight with these schools long term. Which is why you see the burnout. They can't build up the school, educate the kids, and fight the union/school board/school bureaucracy, at the same time. They give up after a while. |
