Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Eric Adams' POLICE STATE Is The Future Democrats Want, But Their Voters DON'T: Olayemi Olurin" video.

@4foxsake571 Your rebuttal of Findland is specious. Would that New York City public schools were as good as Finland's worst!
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@4foxsake571 Yes, there is already ample data on charter schools. I grant you, I know of no large-scale attempt to introduce vouchers in an urban school district. At most, different foundations have tried funding enriched educational programs for a small group (small relative to a typical urban school district), and it often does work. Making kids "feel special" is sometimes all you need to excite them and motivate them.
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@4foxsake571 You know, we've already got vastly unequal educational opportunities and huge differences among communities in how much they value education. I don't know what to do about it. The people who believe that the single worst problem is the failure to identify and develop talent have a good reason to support vouchers and charter schools. They would probably serve most talented students better than the current system does, but that wouldn't serve all of them, would undoubtedly harm a handful beyond what they're already suffering, and would do nothing to stem inequality of opportunity or raise general standards. I don't pretend to know. How did the New York public schools of Harlem educate a James Baldwin? Today, Harlem is gentrified and the schools aren't as good as they were in his day.
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New York public schools --- educated James Baldwin.
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@4foxsake571 It doesn't work for several reasons: privatization of public goods always undermines the public goods. See, e.g., Adam Smith on the rentier class, not to mention the privatization of the commons of his time. Second, MUCH of the charter school experiment has ended up in looting of public monies. The best informed parents make grave mistakes, and children have to meet educational milestones every year (as we've just seen) --- they simply cannot afford failed experiments. Third, and related, the quality of charter schools and established private schools is extremely variable, possibly more so than the quality of public schools in a single tax district. No one can deny that the very best are outstanding, but the worst are nightmares. So, the fate of minors again depends on who their parents are, how much money they already have to support academic achievement, and how well informed they are, plus a hefty dose of sheer luck? The New York City public schools and City Colleges educated generations of immigrant children to the highest achievement. Look at what was different then. Not just school, but the culture of school. Who upholds that now? The people on top are the most clever liars. Integrity is for chumps. You think the kids don't notice?
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