Merryl Tisch, vice chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, in this morning’s NY Post defends the new school report cards that are causing such a stir in New York City and adds that charter schools should be graded the same way.
Amen. Arm parents with as much info as possible and let them decide (a) whether the grade matches what they know about a school, (b) whether it should lead to more questioning about what is and isn’t happening in a school, and (c) whether the school has earned the right to educate their child.
Stop sending your kids to crappy schools – crappy district schools, crappy private schools, crappy charter schools, crappy pre-schools, etc. And then as The Man to either do something about those schools or to shut them the heck down.
And for those who don’t have kids: You have to recognize that this is a CRUCIAL issue regarding the best use of public resources. We don’t have to settle for crappy schools when there are enough non-crappy schools popping up all over the place.