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some folks like jane mcalevy in labor have been hollering for a while now that charter teachers & health care workers are the most strategic sectors of the economy (both growing & increasingly essential) and so the places all organizing should be concentrated (e.g., decidedly not in fast food restaurant organizing where the 'strikes' have little to do with what we'd have called a strike 50 years ago)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
this thread really took off while I was away!
short notes: I feel like it's lazy to generalize tlg's employers as "the good ones" but overall in the charter school landscape, that might be somewhat close to true? there's something useful to building things up incrementally, especially when districts have a lot of social and infrastructural constructs that are slow to change. the unionization of charter schools is a good hint as to what might be essential that the less scrupulous charter school organizers, i.e. corporations, might be trying to work around
as for non-charter solutions to provide specialized education, which I think came up on this thread or the california one: the school system I attended had a magnet high school w/vocational programs that shared a building with a magnet academy with AP classes. they've since split into different adjacent buildings. my experience having taken a lot of courses (three in eighth and ninth grade, two class periods in 10th/11th, and four my senior year) at the magnet was that it worked really well despite the transportational logistics. having all of the area high schools within a 10 - 20 minute drive of the magnet school was how it worked -- the class periods were staggered so buses were available at multiple times during the day for transit to/from the home high schools.
since then, the academy school with AP classes has changed so that all teachers are cross-certified as instructors with a local community college, so any college accepting credit hours from the cc means kids don't necessarily have to take AP tests. the district has at least one montessori-style elementary school and a downtown elementary school for commuters now as well, although I'm not sure about the admissions policies. fwiw it's a district with about 32k kids from grades K - 12
― mh, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
“all”?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 7:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk the vast majority, i'm overstating to underline the relative emphasis
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
charter teachers & health care workers are the most strategic sectors of the economy (both growing & increasingly essential) and so the places all organizing should be concentrated
I was actually just thinking about this the other day and how that is otm
― sarahell, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
one month passes...
two months pass...
So gross. I don’t know how anyone can choose to make money like that. And I’m *shocked* that they’re super-religious.
― DJI, Friday, 29 March 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link