re: #63 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I think the reason why Democrats got on board the charter school initiative in NOLA is because the public schools really were getting awful. But this is New Orleans we’re talking about - every government office was basically corrupt at that point.

The right wing, on the other hand, pushed so hard for charter schools for a much more underhanded reason — to establish a precedent for their privatization agenda, and at the same time erode the boundaries between church and state by making it possible for these private — often religious —schools to take government funding.

That’s why I do think it’s a problem that the public school system in NOLA has been replaced by this essentially reactionary system.