Sunday, May 15, 2016

The problem with Charter Schools, lies more within it's employees then educating children.

Cultural differences will be a major impediment in  educating children through a Charter School or Charter School System. No matter if the employees are Caucasian or Black, if those employees ( Teacher's , Counselor's, Administrator's ect) are out of touch the with everyday experience that the children are dealing with on the daily basis, it will be almost impossible to reach those children and those children will fail, not due to not understanding academic's, but due to a teachers mis-understanding of that particular child or children.  While at it's core Charter Schools represent a system every and any parent should appreciate. The ability to somewhat run your own ship and almost be sovereign with public tax dollars, is the perfect gig for some one or an administration who's aim is to truly educate children in Urban communities. That love, respect, and understanding can only come from with in that particular community. Though professionals from out side of those urban centers where charter schools are formed, may dis-agree due to some even having a degree in child hood education , however, what good is a degree, if you fail in reaching the children you are trying to teach?.  I come to find out through my own research and talking to parents who have their children in charter schools, the consensus is general, 89% don't feel comfortable with Caucasian's teaching their children, especially those Caucasian's who has only connection's to the black pain and experience, not allied to those pain's and experiences. One parent ask " How come those teachers can't find job's in there communities? " more question like this persisted.  It's not that we are questioning the validity of those professionals will and love for the profession of teaching kid's, we are just of the mind set that personality conflicts, cultural differences,  and  pure lack of understanding black children has rendered black children with special education tittles, mental evaluations, ect.  Not that the child can't learn, there lies a cultural difference that the teacher can't get pass, so they most likely dis miss this child as a prospect to educate. It really does not help when the teacher is young, at best no degree, no children, no experience in urban settings.  Yet that same individual thinks he or she can effectively educate a child they know nothing about out side from the new's and media. We also found that when it comes to problem solving these out side professionals, lack the ability to solve problems our deal with what they consider problem children, out side of a " Expulsion " or so many write up's that a parent would just elect to withdraw their child from a school that has already secured state funding for that particular child.  When one consider what these professionals consider problems, these are no more then that professionals lack of patience and understanding of that child and his or her verbage, choice in vocabulary  when in extraordinary situations. As teachers we must keep in mind that we are here to serve not be served and their is an attitude amongst out side professionals when it comes to inner city children, that they must do what I say, instead of being compelling enough to command the attention of their audience which are their student's. Some feel that they don't have to be creative as one teacher said " I'm here to teach them not pamper  and amuse them " professionals like this will always lose their audience and never reach those they are trying to teach.  As teachers you must know that your student's are far more brighter and perceptive then the teacher who stand's before them. Yet outside professionals see things from their communities point of view then try to enact what they are use to into a setting that will reject that very way of life, in a setting that is a negative parallel in comparison thus making the child as those out side professionals would call it " hard to deal with ".  Charter Schools also have this un written rule that because they are Charter parents have very little say in the proceedings of charter schools and what they staff does and who they hire. I tell parents, treat Charter Schools just like you treat the public schools, for the Charter Schools also get's 90% of their funding from you the tax payers, they are not all private funded. If any public dollars are in that school, so should the public be there to voice their concerns about how those public dollars are used and where they go to. I truly believe that if the parental base who march, rally and protest at Public school board meetings, marched rallied and protested at Charter School board meetings and were equally involved in Charter Schools, those Charter's maybe the saving component for children who's parent's don't want their children in over crowded class rooms within a district that continues to be pillaged by both Out side, State and local entities. It seems no matter who controls the money over Detroit Public Schools from the Governor to the street bum's to the legislator's, it appears nobody can seem to do the right thing for the children of Detroit, it seems everybody want's to steal money from a district that in the words of the State has been " Cash Strapped " for the last 17 years, 15 of those years in which the State has had 100% control over Detroit Public Schools finances. Though the mainstream media will lie during coverage and exclaim " DPS" is in trouble again, that is code for State officials are stealing money from Detroit again. but we are to racist of a media outlet to call out those who really are bringing Detroit Public Schools to financial ruin .