Thursday, November 24, 2005
Every Child Left Behind
My daughter is 17 months old. I am starting to investigate schooling options. The situation in the District is a disgrace.
This is the capitol of the richest country on earth. There are only 3 public schools that teach at grade level. More money is spent per child than any other city in the country, and the facilities are in a shambles, the schools are unsafe and our kids graduate uneducated.
In response we have one of the most successful public charter school programs. 52 charter schools and 24% of the students attend them. But still, only 2 are teaching at Grade Level.
So what are the options? A parent can spend $20,000 a year plus and send there kid to a private school. But not everyone, me included, has that kind of money and to especially spend it on preschool for a 3 year old. Or we can move.
I have opted to work on an effort to start another Charter School. A Chinese immersion IB program in DC. The group lost the funding last year. But I am working on this years effort. The more I dig in the more disgusted, devasted and depressed I am.
I can't believe that here in the Washington, DC we cannot provide our kids with a decent, let-alone good education.
This is the capitol of the richest country on earth. There are only 3 public schools that teach at grade level. More money is spent per child than any other city in the country, and the facilities are in a shambles, the schools are unsafe and our kids graduate uneducated.
In response we have one of the most successful public charter school programs. 52 charter schools and 24% of the students attend them. But still, only 2 are teaching at Grade Level.
So what are the options? A parent can spend $20,000 a year plus and send there kid to a private school. But not everyone, me included, has that kind of money and to especially spend it on preschool for a 3 year old. Or we can move.
I have opted to work on an effort to start another Charter School. A Chinese immersion IB program in DC. The group lost the funding last year. But I am working on this years effort. The more I dig in the more disgusted, devasted and depressed I am.
I can't believe that here in the Washington, DC we cannot provide our kids with a decent, let-alone good education.
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When our kids were young we lived in the burbs. We did so because we wanted the best schools for them. I always felt it was a disgrace that the only way you could live in the city and have good schools for your children was if you had the money to send them to private school. Here we are 30 years later, and it is the same story. Our money should be funneled into making our children the best educated in the world, not into a war that is obscene, and a waste of our young service peoples lives.
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