As you undoubtably are aware the Moyer charter school is closed.
DSEA and DOE are cheering while the first will admit it an the second won’t. DSEA will run through The Hall today telling all and sundry, see we told you charter’s are bad while DOE will cluck sympathetically and shed crocodile tears.
I’ll take DSEA’s gloating over DOE’s group hug anyday. At least with the union you know they’re out get you.
Now for those who cry the Moyer crew screwed things up let’s, as they say, be real.
Moyer’s population is rough as in gang rough, as in poor nutrition from birth rough, as no successful adult’s to emulate rough and of course as in seeing your loved ones arrested rough.
We can debate the “why” as to the roughness but the fact is undeniable.
So what Moyer did is give these low income families something the middle and upper classes have which is a choice. Better yet a free choice. Moyer and the charter school movement equaled the playing field for these poor families.
Now these kids can walk to school versus a 50 minute ride up ad down I-95. These kids can now take part in school functions because the school is in THEIR community. Ride through Brandywine 100 and notice how their school’s are all in the local neighborhoods.
As for the DOE bleating that the scores are bad well BFD, so are 95% of the traditional school’s yet they are still open and will stay open. The money for school restructuring will soon end up at DELDOT or used to further bribe Fiskar’s for making car’s very few can afford.
So the fact is the Begatto administration had The Jack tell DOE to shut Moyer down so the state can get RTTT money of which will provide more assessment, testing, and empirical data gathering.
In closing the K12 group DOE is in possible discussions with for re-opening Moyer is a laptop school. Each kid needs a laptop to do the work. Whose paying for that?
By Mr. Gregory telling the parents to look elsewhere now for a school he did them a favor because in the Begatto administration which walks lockstep with DSEA allowing poor city families a choice is not on their agenda.
As a public school teacher who has provided much criticism of DSEA and its inner workings, I must say, nativebluehen, that I just can’t buy much of what you say. 99% of what you’ve proferred here is sheer, unadulterated crap.
One need little more than a cursory glance of inner-city Wilmington politics to know why this school closed.
And, for crissakes…I am not one to pick on people for spelling, grammar, etc…but JFC try and get an editor or something. Because it’s taking all I’ve got to not mark up my monitor with a red pen to correct all the blatant errors. I suppose that’s a bit ironic considering it’s a post criticizing our educational system.
Mr. Matthews,
If your going to use our Lord and Savior’s name in vain at least have the courtesy to capitalize it.
AS for the politics behind behind Moyer once again your lack of knowledge is amazing. All D legislator’s, a D mayor, a D governor and they still closed it?
Moyer was sold out to get RTTT money so Gov Begatto could get money.
Really.
I have been away, so I missed responding to this in a more timely manner.
No one–NO ONE–cheers when a school fails. No one cheers when children are disappointed or left in the lurch, or when adults fail to provide what children need and deserve. I obviously do not know all of the ins and outs of the Moyer Academy debacle–I only know what you and I have read in the NJ. However, I am deeply involved in teacher union business–both local Red Clay and statewide DSEA–I am on the DSEA Exec. Board and just returned from the NEA convention with the 43-member DSEA delegation. No member and no one in a leadership position has said anything inappropriate about the Moyer situation. What has happened is most unfortunate, no matter how one looks at it.
It is ridiculous and wrong for you and others to continually badmouth DSEA for standing up for our community public schools by raising valid and meaningful concerns about the impact that charter schools have had. I do not usually rise to the bait, but your comments here are over the top.
One more thing: It appears acceptable for some to laud the closing of “under-performing public schools” but bemoan the closing of charter schools that may (or may not be) less than satisfactory. Fair is fair. It cuts both ways.