Question: What is one of the most important obligations parents have towards their children?
Answer: To provide them the best education possible.
But what happens if your neighborhood school is a joke? Do you think most parents would want to send the kids there anyway?
Of course not.
They would look for the best school possible for their children to give them the most opportunity in life. It’s as simple as that.
One of the options available to parents is a Charter School. Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school'scharter.
Thses schools work!
But, there are groups out there, namely the Teacher’s Union that don’t want your children to go to these schools. The UFT (United Federation of Teachers) led by Rabdi Weingarten, care more about the intersts of their union membership than providing better education for your children.
For example in New York state, a new state proposal would give the Board of Regents veto power over SUNY's approval of charter schools -- a move critics say will slam the brakes on the spread of charter schools statewide.
State Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan (D-Queens) -- who followed state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's lead in introducing the measure -- said it was simply intended to streamline the charter approval process.
Currently, the state Board of Regents, SUNY, and the city's Department of Education can authorize new charter schools -- although the DOE requires secondary approval from the Board of Regents.
"This is all about weakening charter schools and it's about having fewer of them," Peter Murphy of the New York Charter Schools Association said. "There's no educational or child-centered reason to advance a bill like that."
He added that the proposal shows a growing divide between the Board of Regents -- which has advocated for a diverse curriculum at schools -- and SUNY, which is open to schools that emphasize math and English as a means of targeting kids who are far behind.
Between 1999 and 2007, the Regents supported about 75 percent of SUNY charter approvals.
Since June 2007, however, the Regents supported less than one-third of SUNY charter approvals, according to a SUNY memos.
The memo to state legislators notes that 76 percent of SUNY-authorized charter schools outperform their local district averages in reading, while 92 percent do so in math.
New York is controlled by Democrats. These are the people that want to keep your kids trapped in failing schools because they receive millions of dollars of campaign contributions from the UFT.
So when a teacher says, “It’s about the children..”
You know better.
