My Movie Presentation

I designed a movie that contains some facts, somethings to think about, political pictures as well as pictures that I hope will get my point across.  The goal of the movie is to make you think as a way to sum up the my blog which I hope was though provocing and convincing.  Do enjoy what you see.

Profit Partnerships

Richard Neal, a BC Health Coalition researcher, explains the mythical benefits of Private-Public-Partnership’s benefits.

Richard Neal is telling the problems with public and private partnerships and how this can all apply to education and the privatization of education.

Private-Public-Partnersips

The privatization of public education in Nova Scotia and NewBrunswick are a warning to PPP’s in the rest of Canada.

Deaf Ears

From students to parents to administrators, civil rights groups, grass roots and small number of politicians have expressed their concerns with the education system. They have watch the united states ranking in the world drop year after year to other countries that are taking education seriously. They have all made suggestions and what they need and yet the government does not listen to them. Protest after protest goes before a crumb with thrown their way if anything at all. The government have come up with a couple different solutions such as no child left behind, but none of these measures have worked. Standardize test are not helping. Why not listen to those have been speaking up for decades now. Look at our history any changes to improve education from what needs to be taught to desegregate have been by the community. Why doesn’t the government list them, they seem to know what they need unlike those that do not live in their area telling them what they need and how to fix their problems when they do not under stand the problem from the beginning.

Are they really trying?

We have establishedthat there are serious problems in our public schools system especially in the inner cities and poor areas of this country. According to the public officials and media outlets private schools are much better. If they are so much better then how come states and federal governments do not follow how these schools are ran and apply that to the public schools? Why do the governments complain about how bad our schools are so bad and every year cut the education budget. If education is the most important thing in America then how come it is the first thing cut? That does not make any sense to me. Do the government want to fix public education or get rid of it, it seems like they want to slowly get rid of it. That’s just my opinion.

No Child Left Behind

Why is it coming to everybody attention in the government that no child left behind act does not work and needs to be fix because it just made things worst in our public school system. The damage has been done, but I guess it is better late than never. Hopefully that the changes they want to make will make a difference. I believe they are water downed and will not make wide changes in the system and schools in poor areas will continue to suffer, but they hopefully they will not loose out of money because education board says they are not preforming well enough and cut their funding. That whole concept does not make any sense to me, do badly then loose more money and with less money make improvements.

The alteranative not much of an alteranative

    Charter schools have been the answer to the private and public school debate.  Charter school look like they could be the answer for public and private school dilemma, but I would disagree.  Charter schools are a mixture of public and private schools.  The get public funding like public school and have to adhere to the Department of Education’s standards.  The other half of their budget comes from private hands or companies that donate the money.  Charter school has certain standards already place but how they go about it is up to the school because they get private money as well.  Even though they cannot discriminated against students seeking to come to the school they do not have to let them in for legitment reasons.  The more private money a charter school gets the more they can act like a private school and lose over-site.  Another problem is a community or parents run the school, which is usually not an option in the inner cities.  They are not being developed in poor areas, so that does not have them, and makes it more like the private school problem we are still facing and they get public funding.