Reply #20: My suggesting is actually funding schools rather than underfunding them and the giving charters the [View All]

Keys to the Kingdom

I live overseas (Korea) my kids are educated here.
There is NEVER any talk about cutting education money because if you do, you will NEVER get elected/re-elected to ANYTHING (doesn't matter what the level)
People in Korea, Japan, Finland (The Top 3 school systems in the world) all value education -- something I'm sorry to say, Americans do not.
In addition to schools, we spent an inordinately large amount of money on tutors, academies, etc for almost every subject. There are History academies, math, English, Korean/Japanese, etc everywhere -- we have art academies.
It got so bad in Japan, that several years ago the education ministry in Japan prohibited Japanese public elementary schools from giving out homework.

Parents in America (and American society in general) look toward others for the problems of their children.
Countries like Japan, Korea, etc see children as an investment in the future of society and the family.

Until you fix the problem that American society has with regard to their personal values about education, the rest will always be irrelevant.
I don't know how many times I heard from people how private school teachers really cared about the kids because they worked for less money. While public school teachers just wanted the vacations and high salaries.
Public school teaching is infinitely more difficult than private schools and the teachers get zero respect from the public. Thank you Bush, Reagan, Bush and Clinton.

To answer your last question (from my perspective). I see no special values in charters. They are often privately owned and they are being used by wealthy people to rake in even more money and weaken unions. The money this administration throws at charter schools should be used on actually adequately funding public schools.
As to the teacher, it depends on the teacher and the circumstances.