{"id":530762,"date":"2022-12-23T04:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-battle-over-charter-co-location-reveals-how-deeply-progressives-are-wrong\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T04:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:33:15","slug":"a-battle-over-charter-co-location-reveals-how-deeply-progressives-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-battle-over-charter-co-location-reveals-how-deeply-progressives-are-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"#A battle over charter co-location reveals how deeply progressives are wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22fac000726\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22fac000726\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-battle-over-charter-co-location-reveals-how-deeply-progressives-are-wrong\/#%E2%80%9CA_battle_over_charter_co-location_reveals_how_deeply_progressives_are_wrong%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A battle over charter co-location reveals how deeply progressives are wrong&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_battle_over_charter_co-location_reveals_how_deeply_progressives_are_wrong%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A battle over charter co-location reveals how deeply progressives are wrong&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The war against excellence reared its ugly head again at a city Panel for Educational Policy meeting Wednesday night \u2014 this time as a verbal brawl between charter-school supporters, who sought <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval for a co-location in a Sheepshead Bay school, and those who opposed it. Success Academy won its permission, but the battle revealed how deep the anti-academic fervor is inside New York City public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Students both for and against the co-location spoke, and the supplied talking points were quite obvious as many repeated the same ideas using the same words, but some ventured to share their own opinions. What emerged from most of the opponents was a clear distaste for having Success \u2014 or <em>any <\/em>school that\u2019s unapologetically academic and focused on student achievement \u2014 in the midst of their school buildings, as if something unsavory would rub off.\u00a0Why? Why does a school that relentlessly promotes and celebrates student academic success provoke such anger in those who should be doing the exact same thing?<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s traditional public schools \u2014 the base camp of the teachers unions \u2014 have over the last many years focused their efforts on something called SEL: <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-emotional learning. There are no tests for SEL, nothing that can let you know if a student has mastered the subject or if a teacher is doing a great job, a mediocre job or nothing at all.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-001.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Queens Borough President Donovan Richard\" class=\"wp-image-25110902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-001.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-001.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-001.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The city\u2019s traditional public schools have over the last many years focused their efforts on something called SEL: social-emotional learning. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards\u2019 appointees also voted against co-location.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ron Adar \/ M10s \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SEL is all about feelings and behaviors. Words like \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d \u201coppression\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d come up a lot during SEL workshops and teacher trainings. Grades, tests and achievements, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>De-emphasizing academics and student achievement is, unfortunately, not just a New York City trend \u2014 it is a national phenomenon. Asra Nomani, a reporter and education activist who has fought the anti-merit attacks on her child\u2019s once famously rigorous Thomas Jefferson High School for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> in Virginia, described this week how the school sought to downplay and ignore its National Merit Scholars by<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/war-on-merit-takes-bizarre-turn\"> not properly notifying students<\/a> or families in a timely and public manner. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>A school administrator explained, \u201cWe want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements,\u201d adding that the school didn\u2019t want to \u201churt\u201d the feelings of non-scholar students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if you\u2019re a really smart kid who takes pride in your academic achievements? What if the answer to \u201cWho am I as an individual?\u201d is \u201cthe best mathematician in my class,\u201d \u201caspiring scientist\u201d or \u201cNational Merit Scholar\u201d? How can that be hard for schoolteachers and administrators to understand?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The supporters of Success Academy\u2019s co-location application included students, parents and even alumni who each took hours out of their Wednesday night to listen to an hours-long Zoom meeting and offer up two minutes of testimony about how Success positively shaped their lives. They were pleading for the opportunity to site a K-4 school in an inconveniently located building that already contains two high schools, one a transfer high school. They were begging for crumbs.<\/p>\n<p>The South Brooklyn Success Academy locations have growing waitlists because city public-school families want what Success is known for \u2014 rigorous academics and a focus on student achievement. Success Academy students outperform their city district-school peers, with proficiency rates for black and Hispanic students up to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le those for district peers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso.\" class=\"wp-image-25110901\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/col-maron-on-schools-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Elected leaders like Brooklyn Beep Antonio Reynoso tap panel appointees who favor the goals of teachers unions.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet the Panel for Educational Policy parent representatives voted against the co-location, as did the political appointees of Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Manhattan Beep Mark Levine and Brooklyn Beep Antonio Reynoso. These elected leaders appoint and promote PEP members who just so happen to desire the same thing the teachers unions desire: zero competition and no means to compare metrics of success when it comes to student achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teachers unions that contribute to the campaigns of those elected leaders get a lot for the donations this way: a conveniently closed loop that suggests all stakeholders want what they want. That is not true, and the numbers don\u2019t lie. More than 120,000 students have left the school system in the last five years, and of the 938,000 currently enrolled, a staggering 40% are chronically absent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bad COVID policies are partly to blame for the decreasing enrollment and chronic absenteeism of New York City public schools. But it\u2019s not just that. Parents want schools that focus on teaching so students can be focused on learning. Academic achievement should be at the our schools\u2019 center, not brushed aside as an inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maud Maron is a co-founder of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education (PLACE-NYC).<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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