Expository Essay Body Are we putting government matters over our children’s minds? Wake up we’re losing the battle in education at an alarming rate of 2500 students per day and the only thing they can come up with as a solution is a Charter School. It’s been ten years since President Bush signed into law “No Child Left Behind”, but the law has done nothing to bring our children up to par when it comes to academic excellence. When will we stop blaming the teachers and their unions for the problems that our children face on a daily basis? Our politicians need to stop blowing smoke and make it happen because our government spends about $200 billion dollars a year to rescue our poverty stricken communities to accommodate worthlessness in the individuals who dropped the education ball and have taken up other means of support. Education versus Charter Schools is a topic that many parents and grandparents hear on a daily basis if they follow the news or has children in the public school system. It’s becoming harder and harder to determine the effectiveness of our public schools systems, because so many youth dropout before they can become eligible to graduate and receive their diplomas. There is a real war going on and it starts with our kids, they are the real victims of our failing school system. Public education was born in America in 1840 and was created to keep American people literate so they could read the bible and stay Biblically Literate (C.Bonastia,2012). In the beginning public education was a good thing known as Common Schools that were supported by the community, thus giving them control over what was to be taught to the children keeping them both socially and morally correct. Education back then was definitely had its advantages until the early settlers wanted their children to be more competitive by teaching them both Latin and Greek, thereby making the primary education back then ranked higher than a college or university student because of the degree of what was being taught. Ironically America is no longer ranking high when it comes to public education which makes the American people wonder why the decline? Many educators probably ask themselves that question everyday especially those that understand that the fore fathers of this country didn’t need to write education into the constitution, but it was a moral obligation to keep our children literate and competitive.

The things that make a charter school exceptional or better than a public education is that they have taken private funds and new hopes to try to develop new ways of teaching the children but this to can be seen as a form of racism Charter Schools use the same premise that public schools did back in the day when they were forced to desegregate their school systems they introduced the voucher systems which really hurt the public schools since there was no funds to pay for the public education (Education Evolving, 2012) . When it comes to the Charter School you could say that they have a success rate when it comes to educating they youth and they haven’t been around long enough to really compare the growth to dropout rate, but it’s believed that public schools could achieve the same results if they tried to but that’s the problem they don’t think about the results of their choices and they put less money into the public school system especially in the urban areas. As stated by Christopher Bonasis “ I am disturbed both by the significant challenges that plague the contemporary charter school movement, and by the ugly history of segregationist tactics that link past educational practices to the troubling present” (alternet). Most people probably have no idea that there is even a crisis in the Public Education System. Basically more parents need to be outraged about how their children are falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to a good primary education. In other words parents need to be their child is safe and secure and they keep the promise that no child should be left behind. The idea of the charter school was born in 1988 and the first charter school to opened its doors was in 1992. To date there is no real data that measures the success of the charter schools, giving the parents something to compare also there no data to give the public that these Charter Schools actually work especially since the students that are accepted into the Charter Schools is the same student that were chosen from the public school. It’s our guess that the people who want to keep their districts clear of the undesirables will benefit the most when it comes to a voucher system to keep students in designated areas and not there area. I guess to some extent you really can’t blame other school districts from not wanting their schools over crowed but at the same time then there should be a solution to the problem of education in the public school so everyone is able to stay in their own district and get the same education as the child in the town over.
. In conclusion as our Public Schools face extinction , ridicule, and unpopularity with its past failures how do we as a nation turn this around because the people that we hurt are the children and so the outcry in the communities should be in the end “why is there a crisis in the Public Schools and who should be blamed because it is true those that do not acquire the skills to be competitive and innovative at a time in the United States of America when the American people rank almost 17 on the list in basic studies such as math, reading and science. This alarming news should shock all of the American people into actions to find new ways to breathe new life into our public school system, after all it’s nice that Charter Schools were created, but they select the people they want to keep based on the best and brightest students, whereas in the public schools you don’t have that chose because everyone that comes through those school doors should be leaving those doors behind with a diploma a trade or something that could help you to become a viable citizen and be able to achieve the American Dream. It’s up to us succeeding or to fail when it comes to our children’s education. The lack of interest and the lack of money failed our children. It’s not only alarming but its troublesome that we lose at least 7000 students per day to the numbers of dropouts in our community. There is no way out, our children are depending on us to fight for them. After all it does “Take a Village to Raise a Child”.

References
Bonastia, C. (03/09/2012). Alternet. Retrieved from http://www.alternet.org/education/154425/why_the_racist_history_of_the_charter_school_movement_is_never_discussed
Blumefield, S. L. (n.d.). Trojan Horse in America. Retrieved from http://www.utmostway.com/wtdwytk1.htm