New Jersey's Education Cartel
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Whoever has voted Democratic should be made to view one particular scene on a documentary about the cartel on public education in New Jersey. The scene recounts a lottery drawing for slots in a charter school in New Jersey, which incidentally pays higher than any other does. The audience is shown the faces of children whose names have been drawn and the faces of those have not. Both have tears in their eyes, but the similarity ends there-because while those who have been chosen are crying because of their good fortune, those who were not chosen are crying because of hopelessness. The scene puts a spotlight on the faces of the less fortunate kids.
Jeannette Catsoulis, a writer for the New York Times, describes the film as "a bludgeoning rant against a single state." She described the kid who has just failed to get the slot as "another tiny victim of public school hell."
I like to think that it would be unlikely for anyone without any personal or political stake in the cartel's control over the education system to watch that particular scene without being moved. Although it is not something new for both students and teachers to fall victim to a system that does not allow teaching and learning to take place in many schools, the way the director presents his points seem like nobody has yet to act on the activities of the cartel. The sad fact is that these activities contribute to the increasing cases of students leaving school unprepared to work in the real world.
Since the movie came out, people have finally started making efforts to keep themselves informed about how more funding for public schools has helped in buttressing their failures. Shortly after publishing Jeannette Catsoulis' review on the documentary, New York Times reported that a record number of residents of New Jersey rejected 58% of the budgets during the school-budget elections. They resented the teachers' unions for not concurring to concessions and were angry about higher property taxes to compensate for lessened state aid. The residents have finally started stripping their apathy towards the corrupt system.
It seems that education budgets are no longer held as something inviolable in the state of New Jersey. Motivated by that fact, New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the education cartel like no previous holder of his office has done before. Although it would facilitate the resolution of this issue if he were to tackle it with the same gusto and assertiveness he shows on the other issues he is undertaking.
It is worth to note that at the beginning of the film, the director's credibility to tackle such a powerful issue is immediately established-after all, doesn't being a local TV reporter in New Jersey carry more reliability in exposing the truth than any other profession?
The director of the documentary film also takes the flurry of statistics concerning government funds on education and comparisons on outcomes of New Jersey education with other states, and makes them as comprehensive as possible to the audience without compromising any of the facts.
The movie has the cartel running scared now. And the fact that they are criticizing New Jersey's Governor is not helping them. Hopefully this movie will inspire many to act and do something about this issue. We owe it to the weeping child.
Jeannette Catsoulis, a writer for the New York Times, describes the film as "a bludgeoning rant against a single state." She described the kid who has just failed to get the slot as "another tiny victim of public school hell."
I like to think that it would be unlikely for anyone without any personal or political stake in the cartel's control over the education system to watch that particular scene without being moved. Although it is not something new for both students and teachers to fall victim to a system that does not allow teaching and learning to take place in many schools, the way the director presents his points seem like nobody has yet to act on the activities of the cartel. The sad fact is that these activities contribute to the increasing cases of students leaving school unprepared to work in the real world.
Since the movie came out, people have finally started making efforts to keep themselves informed about how more funding for public schools has helped in buttressing their failures. Shortly after publishing Jeannette Catsoulis' review on the documentary, New York Times reported that a record number of residents of New Jersey rejected 58% of the budgets during the school-budget elections. They resented the teachers' unions for not concurring to concessions and were angry about higher property taxes to compensate for lessened state aid. The residents have finally started stripping their apathy towards the corrupt system.
It seems that education budgets are no longer held as something inviolable in the state of New Jersey. Motivated by that fact, New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the education cartel like no previous holder of his office has done before. Although it would facilitate the resolution of this issue if he were to tackle it with the same gusto and assertiveness he shows on the other issues he is undertaking.
It is worth to note that at the beginning of the film, the director's credibility to tackle such a powerful issue is immediately established-after all, doesn't being a local TV reporter in New Jersey carry more reliability in exposing the truth than any other profession?
The director of the documentary film also takes the flurry of statistics concerning government funds on education and comparisons on outcomes of New Jersey education with other states, and makes them as comprehensive as possible to the audience without compromising any of the facts.
The movie has the cartel running scared now. And the fact that they are criticizing New Jersey's Governor is not helping them. Hopefully this movie will inspire many to act and do something about this issue. We owe it to the weeping child.
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