Why Charter Schools Suck For Everybody

Charter schools are terrible. They drain resources from already stretched public schools. Their student learning outcomes are virtually the same, and often if they're better it's because they offload their problem student back to public schools to cook their books. They also pay their teacher much less than what public school teachers make and don't provide union protections. Charter schools suck for everybody...except those who get rich off of them.

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This is James calling from Boston. James from Boston what's on your mind? I just want to say first-time a long time. I wanted to just touch upon some of the aspects of the impact of welfare in our country. Especially going from the pandemic to now. Okay. I'm a teacher in Boston Public Schools. This is like the one chance I've ever been able to call in because your show's during work. but this is great. Got lucky. But my student's BPS is depending on where they are in the city you know your ZIP code you always say can really determine what like you know your outcome. Right. And we have like you know 90 92 percent poverty in my district. Wow. where I am in my school. So free lunches. A lot of the kids rely on it for you know food in the morning. Not to like you know give away my location but like I live in the area where the students live just because of how expensive rent is as you know young professionals in Boston. That's right, the only place you can live. But you know like in that school you like you see the immediate families of government you see the understaffing you see the large classrooms you see the disregard for you know stuff like so I work with special ed. And a lot of stuff that we're supposed to do we just can't do and these have been decided in Supreme Court cases. But we legally but we were legally supposed to be providing services to certain students but due to the just lack of services and lack of parent involvement because you know 92 poverty means something it's just it's wild. And we had the child tax credit which I know did a lot on paper but this is this was during covid when kids were you know on Zoom all day. And that wasn't that was my first year of teaching and that was a mess. yes without a doubt. And I just wanted to say that you know I feel like people complain about voting or whatever even in a place like Massachusetts or even like a liberal State. You know we got a good I like I live in Ayanna Presley's District so that's great. and Michelle Wu is I think Emma or Bradley talked about her being one of the good Mayors and she really has been. She made my bus line free. So I really really like her for that. but like then you have to be on guard for this stuff. We had a ballot measure two years ago about charter schools that we thankfully mobilized against and we limited the expansion of charter schools. but as someone who works in public schools, I feel people just need to know that Charter Schools like to cook the books worse than Enron. It's like especially in Boston, especially in these high-poverty areas. If the kid isn't acting a certain way or doing academically well or has poor attendance or high special needs it's very often and it's around this time of the year they drop them right before we take standardized testing next month.