{"id":378798,"date":"2018-09-27T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/main-charter-school-myth-promoted-by-progressives\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:34:08","slug":"main-charter-school-myth-promoted-by-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/main-charter-school-myth-promoted-by-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Charter School Myth Promoted By \u201cProgressives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>People who call themselves \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d \u201cprogressives,\u201d or \u201csocial justice advocates\u201d are becoming increasingly critical of and rejecting charter schools. This is a positive development.<\/p>\n<p>But quite a few \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d \u201cprogressives, and \u201csocial justice advocates\u201d remain victims of several harmful myths about charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the main charter school myth perpetuated by \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d \u201cprogressives,\u201d and \u201csocial justice advocates\u201d goes something like this: \u201ccharter schools are terrible for 50 reasons, but they had progressive, noble, democratic origins and were never meant to become the terrible arrangements that they have become.\u201d In other words, charter schools started out as a positive grass-roots effort for school improvement but were hijacked somewhere along the way and turned into horrible things with endless problems that benefit mainly major owners of capital. Different owners of capital have, according to this view, usurped the charter school movement to serve their narrow profit-maximizing aims, thereby perverting and sabotaging the \u201ctrue\u201d intent and promise of charter schools. If only the self-serving wealthy saboteurs of the charter school movement were not part of the equation, if only they had not polluted an otherwise promising educational \u201cexperiment\u201d and \u201cinnovation,\u201d then charter schools could have delivered on their original progressive vision,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/main-charter-school-myth-promoted-by-progressives\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who call themselves \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d \u201cprogressives,\u201d or \u201csocial justice advocates\u201d are becoming increasingly critical of and rejecting charter schools. This is a positive development. But quite a few \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d \u201cprogressives, and \u201csocial justice advocates\u201d remain victims of several harmful myths about charter schools. Perhaps the main charter school myth perpetuated by \u201cdemocrats,\u201d \u201clefties,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}