And he answers, «
certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement
in charter
schools (
in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the
public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged
in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year
in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own
children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my
children's way out of the NYC
public system [
in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen
schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»
«Opening a parallel
system of
public schools that has the potential to take away from our current traditional
system of
schools is
certainly not what's
in the best interest of
children,» KEA President Stephanie Winkler said during the committee meeting.
If you don't know exactly what Common Core is, you're
certainly not alone: Even those of us with
children in the
public school system, those of us who try to keep up with each new development, are confused.