Monday, February 25, 2008

Study finds 'relative parity' in voucher, MPS student performance

I'm glad to see this because it is what I have thought has been going on all along.
It is my belief that school choice and every other program that simply takes kids out of the big public school and places them somewhere else has much more negative than positive.
The kids still come from the same household, and since the teachers are paid much more in public school you are most likely getting a brand new teacher that couldn't get a job in public school, a teacher who is not able to teach in public school, and a few who are willing to take the huge pay cut because they believe they can teach more effectively in private school.

So the kids are not doing better, but you are hurting the big schools on a number of factors.
Bigger schools have more money and therefore have more programs and more opportunity.
You have all these kids going to small schools all over Milwaukee with the bare minimum. And obviously they are not learning more.
Cut cut cut cut cut is what happens all over MPS, so kids can leave and parents can pretend their kids are getting a better education. In a few cases they probably are, but not in the vast majority.

We need to stop the trend of small schools and more and more kids leaving MPS. MPS is forced to teach a large amount of kids with less and less resources.
Lets get a leader in MPS who has a vision and a plan and not what we have now, which is everyone fending for themselves, doing whatever they want, usually at the expense of another school.
MPS keeps cutting and cutting and for what?
Now we know it is for nothing

1 comments:

Scorpion said...

IMAGINE THAT.......The kids who go to class every day in MPS continue to do well as they always have.....
IMAGINE THAT...."reality" at its best...........