Favoring Poor Kids in Charter School Applications is Unfair

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives:

Charter schools are tax-funded, so the admissions policy should be unbiased. You’d think that simple statement would be uncontroversial. But not to some. The New Jersey Star-Ledger editorialized in favor of allowing charter schools to “weight” their admissions policies toward “disadvantaged” kids.

In response to Giving poor families a leg up in charter schools, I left these comments:

So some kid whose parents happen to be economically successful will be denied a better education because some other kid’s parents happen to have incomes that fit statistically into an arbitrary category labeled “poor.”

The unfairness of this method should be uncontroversial. But that’s what happens when you identify people according to some economic group: You lose sight of actual individual students. And that’s the problem with education collectivists: They don’t actually give a d__n about actual kids.

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One thought on “Favoring Poor Kids in Charter School Applications is Unfair”

  1. There’s that one-track mind again, telling us: if it doesn’t conform to principle X, it is wrong. In this case, principle X is fairness, but, as usual, we are supposed to ignore every other moral concern. Morality and law are so easy when you don’t have to worry about all that other silly stuff.

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