More anti-charter school press

The Canton paper is getting in on the "attack charter schools" thing.

"It’s not that we shouldn’t consider alternative teaching methods. God knows the traditional model employed by public schools — one teacher trying to enlighten a sea of sleepy faces — doesn’t work for every kid, but improvement becomes only tougher when resources are drained by charters. That money should be left to the public to find alternatives, such as this county’s multidistrict collaboratives and McKinley’s still-budding, small-school program."

The public schools HAD the money and failed to do anything with it. I am so sick of people a) making charter schools and school reform a political issue (Dem v Rep) and b) ignoring the fact that many of these charter schools are trying to reach kids who have more than "sleepy faces" to deal with. They have very real problems that repeatedly are ignored by the traditional model.

And let's not even get into the teacher unions. Pot meet kettle, but that's another day.