Part IV: Supply Strain: Why Virtual Charters Cannot Ensure Equal

» tlw1mac - A different look at virtual charter schools

Virtual schools as I understand it, offer everything a student needs in order to learn. Given that education for African-Americans is so poor, any African-American parent seeking to better their child's education would jump at the chance to access this virtual school. This would suggest that they would be the first to access such a school.

Virtual charter schools have limited resources at their disposal. It becomes a sort of Catch-22 situation. The creators of the school believe they have a new way of educating children which is better. They seek funding, that which gives the funding is skeptical at best so gives them less than what they are looking for. This in turn sets up the school for failure. Therefore, it would seem logical that as the school has the resources that it would send the newer equipment out first. As their resources dwindle they would be forced to acquire whatever equipment they can and ship that out. It would make perfect sense that a virtual charter school would fill resources on a first come first serve basis.

Now, if African-American homeschooling parents are among the first to apply to a virtual charter school, and virtual charter schools fill equipment requests on a first come first serve basis; Would it not seem reasonable then that African-American children would receive the better equipment?

-- posted by tlw1mac

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