The claim made in the letter to the Co-leader of the Maori party before the charter schools bill was passed by the New Zealand Parliament was that charter schools is “An unproven experiment is not the answer.”
Experiments are pointless if you already know the answer.
The answer is charter schools – An experiment that has proven to be immensely popular among minority parents in the USA.
Charter schools are growing fastest in New Orleans, Washington DC and Detroit – all predominately black cities with terrible public school systems.
The predominately black electorates want to experiment with something that might be better than the existing system that has failed them.
Dear Dr Sharples,
Increasing achievement for Maori and Pasifika students is of great importance. The issue is at the forefront of many educators’ and parents’ minds, thanks to the charter schools debate, and for that and that alone I am grateful charters were set before us as an option.
But they are not the answer. Charters have been shown even in the best of countries, such as Sweden, to increase inequality. It is telling that even normally right-leaning bodies such as the Maxim Institute and SNS have spoken out against charters being the answer. SNS are a business think tank and said charters “had increased segregation and may not have improved educational standards at all” in Sweden. In England it is even worse, and worse still in the USA.
It is far more important that we as a country look to improving schools for all children and that we focus very…
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