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...charter school is a public school??€”it receives a charter from the state and funding from taxpayers—meaning students must meet state educational requirements...
What meritocracy misses are the ways Harvard and so many other schools deepen social inequalities. Professional administrators, faculty, and members of economic, political and cultural elites—not the whole school and surrounding community—make the vast majority of the school??€™s decisions. Routinely putting decisions in the hands of a few simultaneously consolidates the power, skills, knowledge, connections, wealth, and entitlement of a few individuals and at the same time takes that power away from most. The less most people are directly involved in the decisions that affect their lives, the less interested they...
...knowledge concentrates the production and consumption of legitimate knowledge in the hands of fewer people. Strengthening alumni connections turns putatively meritorious students into social climbing graduates who climb as much, if not more, because of their connections as their merit. Plucking promising youth from troubled towns may advance a school??€™s prestige, but this individualistic approach does little to solve community problems as it propels those youth up the social ladder, rarely to return to their troubled communities...
...decisions while the others in the school community study physics, teach classes, clean floors, or serve meals. If democracy entails sharing in the making of history or decision-making through everyday life, rather than when an election rolls around, then schools need to be democratized so that all a school??€™s participants—including students, teachers, and administrators, but also custodians, clerical workers, and cafeteria workers—participate together, routinely in school decision-making large and small. Routine and shared decision-making helps to bridge the all-too-silent social divides between teachers, students, and workers...
Despite the contention surrounding the school??€”and the fact that the fledgling institution still has no building or full faculty—the administrators insist that, come August, school will be in session...