How schooling is done right. Can we call the Success Network charter school network the “Marines of Education” – here’s the mission, let’s get it done!
Related: Shouldn’t we Get a Tax Refund for Schools Being Closed?
Along with Chancellor Richard Carranza’s Social Justice emphasis that is turning NYC schools into social organizers instead of smart kids, the United Federation of Teachers are just showing the rest of us that education of NYC’s kids just doesn’t count for much. I’m putting up most of this NY Posts’s Editorial on this because I can’t condense it to give the full impact of the nimbleness and grit that those who really do put kids first versus teachers’ unions that put the adults first. After all, it isn’t like the Teachers’ Unions anywhere else are making demands to get back into school, right? All I’m seeing (and posting a few) are unions that are making ridiculous demands for the Left’s Social Agenda before they will agree to return to work.
NYC NEAP Scores last year, Proficient and above:
- Fourth Grade: Math: 31%, Reading 27.4%, Science 18.3, Writing 26.9
- Eighth Grade: Math 26.8, Reading 26.4, Science 13.11, Writing 25.12
It’s not like NYC is putting out a superior product, eh? Fire them all, I say! Get people into the classroom who, believe it or not, put the kids FIRST. Reformatted, emphasis mine
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Success Academy shows how school leaders behave when kids come first
By Post Editorial Board July 23, 2020 | 7:37pm
Once again, the leaders of the Success Academy charter network are showing what it means to truly put children and their education first. Every year, SA schools start classes weeks earlier than the regular public schools. With the coronavirus still likely an issue this fall, the network planned to do a “blended” opening, with some kids in classrooms and others doing online work on any given day. But the city pulled the rug out from under them by announcing that it won’t allow any school buildings to open before mid-September — indeed, it won’t even decide until Labor Day if any doors at all will open.
The issues seem to be twofold: The United Federation of Teachers is dragging its feet on letting any members take any risks, and Chancellor Richard Carranza’s Department of Education seems unable to do any significant planning that doesn’t involve his racial-consciousness-raising agenda. But Success refuses to just delay its own reopening: It announced this week that it will simply start the year with online-only classes. High-school seniors will still start Aug. 4, and younger students a couple of weeks later.
Unlike the regular public schools, SA put major effort into making remote learning work. So its 20,000 students — mostly low-income, mostly black and Latino — really will make academic progress.
Meanwhile, the UFT and the DOE continue to focus on just about everything but making sure the kids learn.
