Arguments Against Charter School
Neo-liberalism is essentially an ideology based upon the privatization of public goods and services, with a strong focus on austerity and laissez-faire economics. This new ideology is apparently seems spreading towards education within the United States. The fundamental problem displayed in the last four weeks worth of articles, documents and excerpts is that the arguments stated against this neo-liberalization don’t actually make any sense logically, misunderstand neo-liberalism or are just straight-up strawmen. What the articles themselves seemingly try to argue is: that the trend of increasing neo-liberalizing of education is not working or is outright damaging. However, as the arguments are broken down, these arguments fall apart completely.
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The main issue with using this as an argument is, if you break down what a charter school is: a publicly funded, privately run school, is it doesn’t actually fit the description of what a neo-liberal program would be, specifically, the publicly funded part. Charter schools, as far as their present status is concerned, are an abomination that takes two separate ideologies and mixes them to form some sort of weird strawman to attack the new trend of neo-liberalization. Charter schools should not be considered neo-liberal the same way private schools are as a result of their inherent nature, and if someone were to seriously argue against neo-liberalization, they should argue against “absolute” private schools, as that has all the accoutrements of being neoliberal. Instead charter schools were chosen as a strawman to attack, when charter schools should not even be considered neo-liberal at …show more content…
The current arguments against it seem to be muddied and rely on weak evidence like charter schools or misunderstanding of what a neo-liberal educational system would look like. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the arguments presented but as far as I can tell, they are incredibly weak or are strawmen. A neo-liberal education would give more options for parents and students to pick and choose what they are looking for in a
The main issue with using this as an argument is, if you break down what a charter school is: a publicly funded, privately run school, is it doesn’t actually fit the description of what a neo-liberal program would be, specifically, the publicly funded part. Charter schools, as far as their present status is concerned, are an abomination that takes two separate ideologies and mixes them to form some sort of weird strawman to attack the new trend of neo-liberalization. Charter schools should not be considered neo-liberal the same way private schools are as a result of their inherent nature, and if someone were to seriously argue against neo-liberalization, they should argue against “absolute” private schools, as that has all the accoutrements of being neoliberal. Instead charter schools were chosen as a strawman to attack, when charter schools should not even be considered neo-liberal at …show more content…
The current arguments against it seem to be muddied and rely on weak evidence like charter schools or misunderstanding of what a neo-liberal educational system would look like. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the arguments presented but as far as I can tell, they are incredibly weak or are strawmen. A neo-liberal education would give more options for parents and students to pick and choose what they are looking for in a