I COULD CARE LESS!

This essay is satire. Any resemblance to the attitudes of living people is purely coincidental.

I bought a house in a neighborhood without knowing a soul. The schools are highly rated. Why would I choose to stay where I was living in the city and send my kids to decrepit buildings with disinterested teachers. Okay, I am sure some of the teachers in urban neighborhood schools are passable. I mean they have jobs right.

Now I am rarely in the city unless I am going to a performing arts center located near an expressway that can get me in and out with no hassle.

Anyway, my son’s teacher, like everybody else here a member of the NJEA, tells me that charters are not really public schools, that they are lousy and simply vehicles for profiteering.  She should know.

Aren’t charters in New Jersey minority student dominated – whatever education they get is fine. Those kids will be working for my kids anyway… yeah, I know, I am being insensitive. Come on, it’s not as if I’m inviting their parents to have dinner at my house to discuss STEM curricula.

I hear that a couple of urban charter school graduates have gone onto to Ivy League universities. Probably an affirmative action of some sort. Politically correct colleges want to brag about their commitment to diversity so they need poster kids.

Years back, didn’t advocates say that charters would save us tax dollars and be known for education innovation.  All nonsense, like everything else about charters. Of course, to have DeVos as a fan could almost make me feel sorry for charters.

If charters suck, like they say, don’t come asking taxpayers like me for more money to be sent from the suburbs to the cities and wasted. Let all the rich non-profit funders put up their dough.

Cripes, if my kids’ school starts to suck, I will put them in private school.

Like I said, why should I care about charter schools.

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“The presumption of others’ unworthiness and the ability to keep them out of sight have always been powerful potions that soothe the consciences of the comfortable.”