As we have discussed throughout this course, the perception of what a school should be and what teachers should be teaching has become a popular topic in today’s media. After Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, along with rebuilding communities and businesses, the schools also needed to be renovated. The New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) is now home to 100 percent charter schools. How do these new charter schools compare to the public schools that were in place before Katrina? I am very interested to know how much the charter schools have transformed schooling methods and if there has been a change in the demographic and achievement of those attending. In retrospect to recent laws such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To
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As time passed, so did the values of the American society and roles of teachers and schools. Public schools, since their inception, have been constantly changing. With recent policies passed by the government, public schooling had restrictions placed on their teaching methods and many school programs that do not correlate with the state tests, for example, performing arts programs, are being discontinued. The focus of a well-rounded education was now minimized to target state standardized testing requirements. If parents do not see public schools fit to teach their child, what should they do? The answer was charter schools. A charter school is essentially a public school with less governmental regulations, but is still held accountable for student achievement. Charter schools, like public schools, are tuition free and receive federal aid from the government. Charter schools are not supposed to be able to discriminate against anybody, whether that is age, gender, disability, or religion (Springs, 2016). After saying this, you may be wondering how charter schools are a bad thing. I will discuss this issue later in the paper. I would like to focus on the performance and success rates of these newly established charters in New …show more content…
I believe that allowing teachers to have control in the classroom and teach their own way, rather than being guided by state regulations, is a positive benefit of charter school; however, the commercialization of schooling that the charters seem to be pushing for is absolutely unacceptable. Mann believed that everyone deserved an education and it was to be free; he did not envision schools as a means to make exponential profits. Commercialization of schooling is not only bad on an economic perspective but also is unfair to some students. Students with special needs that do attend charter schools may be performing below standards if the Charter excludes activities/programs that they deem unnecessary. If a public school is taken over by a charter, teachers may lose their job based on the new leaders decisions. The decision is still out as to whether the charter schools in New Orleans are outperforming the previous system that was in place. Only time and more observation will truly shed light on this
As time passed, so did the values of the American society and roles of teachers and schools. Public schools, since their inception, have been constantly changing. With recent policies passed by the government, public schooling had restrictions placed on their teaching methods and many school programs that do not correlate with the state tests, for example, performing arts programs, are being discontinued. The focus of a well-rounded education was now minimized to target state standardized testing requirements. If parents do not see public schools fit to teach their child, what should they do? The answer was charter schools. A charter school is essentially a public school with less governmental regulations, but is still held accountable for student achievement. Charter schools, like public schools, are tuition free and receive federal aid from the government. Charter schools are not supposed to be able to discriminate against anybody, whether that is age, gender, disability, or religion (Springs, 2016). After saying this, you may be wondering how charter schools are a bad thing. I will discuss this issue later in the paper. I would like to focus on the performance and success rates of these newly established charters in New …show more content…
I believe that allowing teachers to have control in the classroom and teach their own way, rather than being guided by state regulations, is a positive benefit of charter school; however, the commercialization of schooling that the charters seem to be pushing for is absolutely unacceptable. Mann believed that everyone deserved an education and it was to be free; he did not envision schools as a means to make exponential profits. Commercialization of schooling is not only bad on an economic perspective but also is unfair to some students. Students with special needs that do attend charter schools may be performing below standards if the Charter excludes activities/programs that they deem unnecessary. If a public school is taken over by a charter, teachers may lose their job based on the new leaders decisions. The decision is still out as to whether the charter schools in New Orleans are outperforming the previous system that was in place. Only time and more observation will truly shed light on this