The honeymoon is over for SC charter school “sponsors”

A private religious college became the largest authorizer of "public" charter schools. Now its being countersued by a former partner for allegations including breach of contract and racketeering.

Americans take it for granted that their schools operate with student and community well-being in mind, and not the fundamental mission of wringing profit out of the enterprise.

-Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider, The Education Wars

About a year ago, I shared a piece about “classical education” in which I wrote:

The intellectual shallowness of the “classical education” platform is that many of its proponents believe everyone should read, say, Homer’s Odyssey, while no one (at least, no student) should pursue gender studies as a major or read How to Be an Antiracist. This argument will be made on the basis that the “classical education” folks find specific words— like a single, out-of-context passage about affirmative action from Kendi— offensive. Yet if we asked if they believed the depictions of murder, religious impiety, sexuality, adultery, and other vices in The Odyssey, or the explicit promotion of slavery in Aristotle’s Politics, or the depiction of incest and fratricide in Sop…