My grandfather's quote

Well I have not ranted  for a while on the evils of charter schools.  Sometimes things, such as E-Schools,  impact your life in ways that you can never imagine.

An interesting idea, throw off the shackles of bureaucracy.  Do what’s best for the children.   

With a few exceptions it has not worked out well for the students or the taxpayers.  E-Schools are the worst of the worst. 

This article lays it all out:  http://knowyourcharter.com/files/2015/05/KYC.eschools.pdf

Not a great deal for the teachers.  The average Ohio E-School salary is $32,481.  The average public school teacher is $56,855.  No unions allowed. A $23,000 a year difference.  Pretty soon you are talking real money.  The average E-School pays 17.3% of its revenue on the teachers.  The rest, over $200 million per year disappears into overhead.  The average teacher ratio is 28:1.

What a scam!

E-Schools, ethics and dishonor all collided in my life.  So yea it is personal.

My Ex-wife, Marie Hanna, was and is a school administrator at Ohio Connections Academy, an E-School.  She was pursued and seduced by Raymond Lambert her supervisor.  They had one good year in 2010.  Since then a series of failing grades at the school, a horrendous graduation rate, a couple of promotions for the ex, some self-dealing, and two failed marriages.  In short, she slept her way to the top of a failing school.

The E-Schools should be shut down.  The objective case for doing so is in the report. 

The subjective and personal case is the lying, cheating, and stealing from the Ohio school system and its children by two adulterers.  Pretending that this is good for students and teachers to somehow justify  the payment of paying a mortgage or making some corporation richer is wrong.   It's a dirty business.  Dirtier than you know. 

Rant Over

“You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.”  Russell Hanna