Seattle Times urges union to drop lawsuit against charter schools
January 10, 2013
Yesterday the Seattle Times posted a well-reasoned, well-written editorial about the state teachers union (WEA) plan to file a lawsuit to prevent Washington school children from attending charter schools.
You can the full editorial here.
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Not quite
I've been in favor of charter schools for some time, but the editorial has some flawed reasoning. The WEA isn't just against unions because they can't control them (or at least there are other reasons to be against them). We have created a system where there is one pool of money that currently goes to one school, but soon can be split up to two schools. The problem with that (because additional tuition can't be charged) is that we will now be paying to heat two schools instead of one. We will double our need for grounds people, janitors, lunch workers, and the like as well, while still serving only the same number of students. This only creates more inefficiency to a system that is already inefficient. This law was written like the marijuana law was written...bland enough to make people okay with it. I wish it was something I could support 100%, but it isn't, as written.