Reply #23: Here is just a little to answer your questions. [View All]

[madfloridian]

I won't address all your issues, I can't. I will say that most Florida schools are very top heavy with administrators. Many of them need to go. Also I will say that you can't run a school without the other workers you mention. You must have custodial services, you must have guidance people. You are working with people, not products....you need those things.

Bottom line. If a state puts less and less money into public schools, and if they divert funds to charter, magnet, and choice schools....and vouchers...there is little left for resources for the original public schools. Remember that often (most of the time)...these other schools are not required to keep students who don't produce.

Charter schools and vouchers take money from public schools. Then people demand more from public schools as the money is taken away.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3753

Using disaster capitalism to privatize schools...to turn them into something else. These new schools are not held to the same regulations as public schools, though accountability is sometimes required. There are relaxed standards for hiring teachers, for curriculum, and a chance at indoctrination more than in public schools.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3773

My tax money in Florida is sending over 43,000 students to private school with vouchers. Yet just as much is demanded of public schools.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3408

More than 500 teachers to lose jobs in one Florida county. This has not happened before on such a scale.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3598

The Republicans in Florida have been deliberately defunding schools in the state, and gradually giving out more vouchers even to private religious schools. The courts said no, Florida does it anyway.

When you defund an entity, there is a reason. You can fix things when you are taking money away from them.

The reason is to let the private industry profit from schools....something public schools denied them.

It is called greed.