let families take their children's education dollars elsewhere
"To cover the thousands of auxiliary positions as many union members remain home, LAUSD is hiring monitors at a rate of $14 to $30 an hour or more, as well as partnering with existing local day-care and tutoring organizations." nationalreview.com/news/la-superi…
safe enough for childcare workers but not safe enough for public school employees?🤔
Public school districts in several states weren't reopening for in person instruction
But then opened the same public school buildings for in person childcare services
Private sector employees provided in person childcare services
Families got the short end of the stick and had to pay twice.
We should empower families by funding students directly.
Why the difference?
Incentives.
One sector receives children's education dollars regardless of whether they open their doors for business.
The only way that we're ever going to fix the messed up set of incentives that's baked into the public school system is to fund students directly and empower families
Fund students, not systems.
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"COVID-19 didn’t break the public school system—in many ways, it was already broken.
The past year simply shined a light on the main problem with K-12 education in America: a long-existing massive power imbalance between the public school monopoly and individual families."
"The key takeaway is that the school reopening debate has been more about political partisanship and power dynamics than actual safety concerns and the needs of millions of families." edweek.org/leadership/opi…