tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post1138069788866057535..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: Charter schools and their segregating effectPatrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-30328957628178897552012-03-23T17:38:39.933-04:002012-03-23T17:38:39.933-04:00Open Letter to Mr. Suchanek of Harlem Success Acad...<b>Open Letter to Mr. Suchanek of Harlem Success Academy</b><br /><br />Mr. Mike Suchanek of Harlem Success Academy:<br /><br />I am a widely published social justice writer from Los Angeles, although I was born in Huntington, Long Island. I have the privilege of being a contributor to the renowned <i>Schools Matter</i> site alongside education luminaries like Professor Stephen Krashen, Professor Jim Horn, Professor P.L. Thomas, Susan Ohanian, and others.<br /><br />As you must know Real Reform Studios has produced an informative short film entitled "Los Sures fights against Success Academy Charter School." I found it so compelling that I posted it to <i>Schools Matter</i>:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/03/speaking-truth-to-eva-moskovitz-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/03/speaking-truth-to-eva-moskovitz-and.html</a><br /><br />I am going to be writing a long essay regarding the social justice perspective on Harlem Success Academy (HSA) for publication soon.<br /><br />To balance the article I am looking for the right-wing perspective on both HSA and the lucrative charter-voucher industry in general. When someone showed me your "Dear Cobble Hill Parents" letter, I realized you espoused those right-wing views, and would provide the perfect counterpoint to the perspective of my article. It's clear from your letter that you wholeheartedly support paternalism, white privilege, cultural sterilization, and corporate profiteering. I want to provide you an opportunity to make your case for the corporate colonialism that epitomizes HSA, and the wider neoliberal project of charter schools, to a wider audience.<br /><br />You can either provide me an essay that I can include in my piece, or I can send you a list of questions to answer. Your call, but I know it will be great to have someone like you, who passionately supports the "choice" fantasies of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, versus my passionate support of equity in public education. This is your chance to show the world that Eva Moskovitz has at least one supporter!<br /><br />Please let me know right away, otherwise I'll have to contact another charter school supporter like Ann Coulter, to fill this role.<br /><br /><br />Advocating public education and social justice<br /><br /><br />Robert D. Skeels<br /><br /><br />PS: I noticed the HSA website features an Op-Ed by Stanley Crouch in which he attacks the highly regarded Professor Cornel West for his support of public education. Aside from the irony of Crouch using the word buffoonery for anyone besides himself, there's more to the self-colonized, self-hating Crouch than you may know. For example, were you aware that Crouch is by most accounts the the inspiration for Aaron McGruder's Uncle Ruckus character? <a href="http://goo.gl/JQQhc" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/JQQhc</a>Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-45897144786615689812012-03-23T06:48:51.237-04:002012-03-23T06:48:51.237-04:00Yes, I couldn't agree more. Give me progressi...Yes, I couldn't agree more. Give me progressive choices within the public school. Can I please have a local middle school and high school to send my kid to, without having to go around the entire city looking for one? Finally, will the Bloomberg nightmare ever end or are we looking at mayoral control for the next mayor?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-91017166115841516622012-03-22T12:52:54.776-04:002012-03-22T12:52:54.776-04:00There's a significant danger to all of our pub...There's a significant danger to all of our public schools with Success Academy's marketing. Success Academy's removal of "at risk" admissions priority allows them to toss aside the false rhetoric of providing options to children in neighborhoods with so-called failing schools. <br /><br />Marketing to neighborhood families where the schools are doing well reveals the REAL motive behind privately managed schools like Success Academy and the next wave of "fauxgressive" schools - to poach motivated families, ensure their high test scores and systematically dismantle real public education. <br /><br />In D14, we want all of our kids in school together. We don't want Success Academy. We don't want Citizens of the World Charter Schools. We want REAL progressive choices WITHIN our public schools, not through privately managed schools. We want ALL of our schools to be successful with the support of the DoE and the community.WAGPOPShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10001525067117097253noreply@blogger.com