History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Stop dumping our most vulnerable students
- 04-22-2011
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Blog by John Thompson/Huffington Post
A few years ago, the nation was appalled by video of hospital staff dumping poor patients in a park rather than absorbing the costs of treating them. Our schools routinely do the same thing to our most traumatized children. Those responsible for denying treatment for students, however, claim that they are doing it for the kids!?!? The proliferation of choice has allowed charters and other selective schools to "cream" the easiest to educate students, leaving even greater concentrations of generational poverty in neighborhood schools. The results of this increased segregation might not have been so tragic had we also invested in alternative services for the children who have endured suffering so terrible that they are emotionally incapable of functioning in the chaos of neighborhood secondary schools. Instead, we have dumped our most vulnerable children on our most vulnerable schools, turning them into way stations for those kids until they land on the streets. (more...)
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