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Subject: Re: [OM] Jan's rantings
From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:36:38 -0600
Are you sure that this is an evil that is spreading across America? Isn't it
something that is different ine ach state? We have a very, very few charter
schools here, and none too successful, and none are operated by a
corporation. They are all in old public school buildings, and operated by
religious groups (not such a hot idea) or parents groups with specific
wants.

 

Bill Pearce

 

From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 11:07 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Jan's rantings

 

> From: Nicholas Herndon <nherndon@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Privately funded charter schools are nowhere near as evil as what you'd
like
> to think.  So what if ExxonMobil wants to fund an engineering school so
that
> there is a new generation of engineers to work in the energy industry?

Woa, we jumped from a taxpayer-funded elementary school to a
corporate-funded trade school in one fell swoop?

You didn't even READ what I wrote, did you?

I don't give a damn if someone wants to set up a privately-funded school.
None of my comments had ANYTHING to do with that, which you would know if
you had bothered to read them rather than simply firing off a knee-jerk
response.

In this particular school's case, it is true that private corporate money
BUILT the school. But they also got a 30-year operating contract for public
tax funding of the school operation, guaranteeing them 9% return on
investment over that period. And then they sucker parents into volunteering
their services. Yea, EXACTLY like a "privately funded charter school" --
NOT!

> I swear, there's been so much bullshit flying around on the list the last
> few days it's starting to smell like a dairy farm.

Thank you for your contribution! (Which is clearly of the same substance you
claim to deride.)

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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth. -- H. L. Mencken
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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