{"id":386151,"date":"2018-11-22T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/opposing-charter-schools-without-really-opposing-them\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:58:14","slug":"opposing-charter-schools-without-really-opposing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/opposing-charter-schools-without-really-opposing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Many individuals, groups, newspapers, and organizations claim that they oppose charter schools. But, revealing ongoing confusion, they also say, often in the same breath, that \u201cthere are some good charter schools out there,\u201d that \u201cnot all charter schools are rotten,\u201d that \u201ccharter schools are not a \u2018panacea\u2019 but can be part of the solution,\u201d that \u201ccharter schools may provide a good alternative for at least some students,\u201d or that \u201ccharter schools should be given a chance\u201d (even though they have been around for more than 25 years). Such contradictory statements are not uncommon, keep many intellectually disoriented, and undermine social progress.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, such forces effectively describe several damning and indicting problems inherent to charter schools, usually enough for the average rational person to rapidly conclude that charter schools should be eliminated immediately, but then instantly equivocate and insert some statement directly or indirectly supporting charter schools. This normalized indecisiveness has been haunting people for years because the analysis, outlook, and consciousness behind it are limited and outmoded.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there is no justification for the existence, let alone expansion, of nonprofit and for-profit charter schools in America, it is nearly impossible to find forces who resolutely answer the call of history to oppose the <em>entire<\/em> neoliberal concept and practice of charter schools from beginning to end. Instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/opposing-charter-schools-without-really-opposing-them\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many individuals, groups, newspapers, and organizations claim that they oppose charter schools. But, revealing ongoing confusion, they also say, often in the same breath, that \u201cthere are some good charter schools out there,\u201d that \u201cnot all charter schools are rotten,\u201d that \u201ccharter schools are not a \u2018panacea\u2019 but can be part of the solution,\u201d that [&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-386151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}