Weird that Al Gore is pimping this awful charter shit. It is wingnuts with a money grab at tax dollars.

What is going on is that contracts are up to manage and run some multimillion dollar LA schools and Green Dot and others are trying to get access to the easy money.


You should google a little.... and now.. the rest of the story... on Locke High...

Green Dot has been described as challenged and trouble operating the school.

It requires a second or even a third look at Locke High School to discern the changes this fall, one year after it was taken over by charter operator Green Dot Public Schools.

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The charter operator takes 6% of the student funding for central office expenses.

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And because Locke's truancy rates are about 10 percentage points lower than they were under L.A. Unified, the school gets more per-pupil funding, which is tied to average daily attendance. The school's history is one in which the population of each class fell off sharply each year because of dropouts and community transiency, but already Green Dot is retaining more students.

"Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail," Perhaps he thinks they should abolish truancy laws too so kids are not 'forced' to be educated.

Goodness forbid the the laws that dictate safety requirements for his car don't suddenly disappear and he's caught in a blaze of 'freedom' due to a faulty brakes.

>> ^Aemaeth:
Jwray, how many victimless crimes do we have? Prostitution, drugs, etc. Again, we're looking at the social issue and not the political.


Anything about what the law ought to be is political. We're talking about whether gay marriage should be legal.

Some drugs (and Truancy) ought to be illegal solely because they impair the ability of the actor to give his informed consent to future actions. Reproductive incest is illegal because it harms (via birth defects from inbreeding) the offspring without their consent. But prostitution should be legalized consistent with the principle before stated, because it harms no nonconsenting party.

Gay Marriage does not lead to any sort of harm PERIOD, let alone harm without the informed consent of the harmed, therefore it should be legal.