re: #152 dangerman

Why it was so easy for ‘60 Minutes’ to rebut Betsy DeVos’s charter-school arguments

The entire argument in favor of charter schools, once you cut through the bullshit and spin, is:

Schools that can choose their students have way better test scores and more successful alumni than schools that are full of the students who didn’t get chosen by the schools that can choose their students. The teachers are no better, but the students are.

Harvard alums are way more successful than Backwater Junior College alums… because the Harvard admissions office can be super-picky about who they let enroll in the first place. They’re only taking people who would have been successful no matter where they went to college, or even if they didn’t go to college at all.