*On the other hand, I will say that if I were a parent in a low-income areas of DC, I would rather put my kid in a charter school that expelled disruptive students, than in a traditional public school — the schools are likely much calmer and less chaotic (and/or violent).

It’s a tough problem.

Two years ago to the mark I spoke quite specifically about an Oakland, CA charter school were my niece worked that had a sky high rate of expulsions. They did it quite smoothly by holding student/parent meetings where they listed the charter contract violations. Parents quite in anger and disgust.

My niece said they were REQUIRED to make up hit lists that were then used to “clean” their classrooms.

My niece said that at the end of the year NOT a single teacher committed to another year.

So, why must we WAIT for some phoney expert to point out the painfully obvious? The answer is in front of your eyes: The fields of education and economics are fundamentally corrupt disciplines with no tested laws or theories to guide them. It is opinion doing a poor job of masquerading as fact.

Yes! I’m holding my breath until you write so clearly about the cock-eyed SIG, “disruptive innovation,” “teacher quality, and other wild throws of the dice – misrepresented as research-based – “reforms.”