The Rationale for Charter Schools

The author of the meme poses a good question.

The answer is that it’s essentially like everything else in American life: It’s all about me.

Public schools have to deliver education to everyone, regardless of their IQ, learning disabilities, and whatever poor values the kids’ families may suffer from.  Charter schools, formed in relatively affluent neighborhoods, are not bound by these laws, and can scrape the cream off the top, making public schools that much worse off in terms of the average academic quality of the remaining students, condemning the children who must remain there to even lower educational standards.

Again, the American ethos is one of: Who cares?  I’ve got mine.  Everyone else can go to hell.    

This is simply one more example.