Charter School Teachers Are Not The Enemy by Sergio Flores

Charter school teachers are not part of the problem that public school teachers face. Arguably, they are victims as well. Charter school proponents and defenders have created a movement premised on neoliberal principles --creating a system of arbitrary competition alleging that is needed for school improvement, choice as a necessary condition for parents and students to have alternatives, and a strict accountability system to keep score. 

Ultimately, this system has been used to create a system of unwarranted rewards and punishments that have enable corporate reformers to implement privatizing policies. All teachers in public and charter schools have been trapped in this neoliberal frame that has promoted the notion of managing public schools as business, and subjecting them to the free-market rules. 

The results are nothing less than disastrous. In this century charter schools have proliferated mostly by hiring underpaid labor with little or no working rights, and boasting about it. 

Corporate reformers set up the unfair competition between charter and public school teachers, and have artificially worsen it by investing millions of dollars in charter schools. 

Teachers, all teachers are pawns in a rigged game that only those who profit from privatizing the replaceable common good called public education