The Washington Examiner ran an interesting story last week about the explosion of enrollment in virtual charter schools. According to Barnini Chakraborty's reporting, these schools have gone from about 300,000 enrolled in 2017 to probably almost 700,000 today.
It is widely understood today that the experiment of forcing students and teachers into virtual learning did not work when their curricula and training had been designed for in-person learning. But that's not necessarily the case for curricula designed specifically for online learning. In fact, although online learning is extremely inconvenient for most parents — especially lower-income families and essential workers who need a place for their kids to go during the day — it can be an excellent solution for the many parents who now work from home. It can also be ideal for couples with a stay-at-home parent who either doesn't work or works a side gig.
Charter schools will always need close scrutiny to succeed. Fortunately, they get it in a way that traditional public schools rarely do. This is how it works in D.C., where nearly half of all public school students attend charters. The low-performing charter schools are closed, the way most traditional public schools should already be closed. But the argument raised by "critics" today is just intolerably weak — that online charter schools are somehow the problem, and causing an enrollment problem for the traditional public schools.
No, sorry, but those public schools caused their own problem. If they were any good, then parents would not be clamoring for alternatives. If the argument is that these charter schools perform poorly (probably some do, and most do not), then we should be asking why parents are clamoring to get their children into them anyway. And certainly, the solution is to find a way to make them work better, not to shut them down and reward the malicious union drones who have ruined the traditional public school system.
Traditional public schools are not just lousy for reading and math. In many states and counties, they are teaching children to hate themselves and believe they are evil because they're white. In some states, their disgusting school employees attempt to push children with signs of slight gender confusion into irreversible medical treatments such as puberty blockers and even surgery. Why would any conscientious parent place his or her children within the grasp of horrible people who would commit such overt acts of child abuse?
Government is reasonably good at certain things. One of them is to take money through taxation for use in education, which is, broadly speaking, a public good. But there is no reason at all to think that government could ever be good at running an actual school, devising a curriculum, or training teachers to make children into well-adjusted adult citizens.
Anyone with a good solution to that age-old problem deserves a chance to show they can do better than the zombie traditional public school paradigm, an idea that has now failed several generations of students.
Educational choice is the future. In some states, such as Indiana and Arizona, that will mean that private schools receive a huge amount of state funds. In others, it will mean a thriving public charter school environment directs government dollars to those with the best curricula. And among those charters, some parents and their children will benefit most from a virtual option.
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