Corey Turner
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928 appearances
95 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Sep
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And she kind of bristled at the fact that many of her neighbors were using private schools.
The reason, she said, was the same reason that she ended up switching too.
Her daughter's public school was pretty distracting, she said, with lots of fighting and yelling.
Even with this new choice program, the data suggests that Xavier schools may still be out of reach for the city's poorest families.
So of Xavier's more than 2,500 students, about 13% are low income compared to the public schools where 57% of kids are low income.
I actually asked McCarville.
If the point of public education is to serve all kids, to serve the common good, can private schools be relied on to do the same?
How are our schools not for the common good?
No.
It's a very different story.
Private schools, by law, have lots of say over who they accept.
So they can turn away a child for whatever.
poor grades or, say, a history of misbehavior.
They can also say no to kids with disabilities by saying, look, we don't have the resources to give you what you need, which may be true, but it also means for those students, it's the schools doing the choosing.
I asked Chris McCarville about this.
Oftentimes for us, what it comes down to is, can we serve your child adequately?
And sometimes, unfortunately, the answer is no.
McCarvel told me he has been trying to make Xavier more welcoming for kids with disabilities, but that special education can be incredibly expensive, which helps explain why, Aisha.
Again, the data.
The share of kids with a special education plan known as an IEP is more than four times higher in the public schools than it is in Xavier's schools.
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