You’ve hit the nail on the head with this one. MNPS became ”customer oriented” during the Bill Wise anything to avoid a lawsuit regime and increased dramatically during the what we need is a customer service center Garcia/Johnson regime.
Concomitantly, addressing the recommendations made in the Chamber Report Card became a driving force in MNPS. As the Chamber gained more power, charters proliferated as did the idea that schools should be more business-oriented in the way they operate.
Having recently finished reading The Hate You Give and Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and reflected upon the history of racism in America, I now see charters as an example of white noblesse oblige - something like the slave masters who purported to know what was best for the brown people they owned.
I agree - all schools should be high quality and al students should have access to excellent opportunities. But I am wondering how the business model that fosters competition and hence divisiveness promotes learning for all.
You’ve hit the nail on the head with this one. MNPS became ”customer oriented” during the Bill Wise anything to avoid a lawsuit regime and increased dramatically during the what we need is a customer service center Garcia/Johnson regime.
Concomitantly, addressing the recommendations made in the Chamber Report Card became a driving force in MNPS. As the Chamber gained more power, charters proliferated as did the idea that schools should be more business-oriented in the way they operate.
Having recently finished reading The Hate You Give and Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and reflected upon the history of racism in America, I now see charters as an example of white noblesse oblige - something like the slave masters who purported to know what was best for the brown people they owned.
I agree - all schools should be high quality and al students should have access to excellent opportunities. But I am wondering how the business model that fosters competition and hence divisiveness promotes learning for all.