Turn the neighborhood schools into underfunded failure factories. Charge them w. educating all sp ed, all ELL and all kids w. behavior challenges.
Send the rest to privately backed $$$$, lavishly funded, quasi private schools. They hire their own ( non-union.... are ya shocked?) teaching staff , expel kids who lag behind despite being screened as the best and the brightest in their screening process.
It's basically a boilerplate cheap-labor capitalism scheme w. lots of pols in on the gravy train. ( Look at Cuomo's fundraising in last year's NYS gov election, for instance. Outraised the GOP conservative candidate by a factor of 10. A great deal of it from people also in on the $$$ aspects of the CS industry. Cuomo then leaned on the legislature to increase the number of charters issued.
Consumer then faces a choice: do they want to send their kid to a low-performing, community school, w. behavior problems (often VIOLENT behavior problems) or enroll in a lottery to get into a charter school. ( Usually spanking new bldg , new tech, better infrastructure, carefully screened classmates.)
Which would YOU pick? I took my kid out of local ps in 2007 ( 5 years into Bloomberg's "transformation" of the ps system from problematic to complete academic incoherence) but found a private ( NOT charter) school which met his needs. I sued the ps system for the tuition and they settled.
Do what's best for your kids. But the pols have contrived to make that choice the kind of choice one makes w. a gun to one's head. In other words: not a choice at all.
That's what I think.
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