A picture's worth a thousand words, so...
(Oh, keep in mind that Commonwealth Charter Schools are now taking $125 Million... a year.... away from Boston Public Schools) (That's nearly $1 million dollars, per school)
Here you go.
And... according to the ed reformers, Boston has "the highest preforming charter school sector in the country". Wow. I don't know about you, but to me, if that's true, I mean, wow.
As shocking as this all is, wait, it gets better.
Of the children that graduate and go onto college, the charter school children fare less well, again.
Lest I forget, documentation.
That's right, worserer and worserer, all mixed together.
So... what I think we need is a third school system. The Higherest Preformingest system ever seen. We can defund the two current separate and unequal school systems - because that's what happens when you set up parallel school systems that all draw from the same pool of children - the same way our predecessors did, by absolutely not giving a damn that Boston's schools are funded by per pupil funding, and that by developing and expanding a parallel system we will remove any remaining chance the vast majority of Boston children still have at receiving a good education.
I can't wait to get started. Who's in?
John Lerner, Roxbury, MA.
Member of the Boston Education Justice Alliance.