> They're teaching the kids that slavery, discrimination, and oppression are wrong.

How are they teaching that? And, how do you know that's what they're teaching? Better yet - how do you know what kids are learning? (See https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-work/2017... )

Here's an easy one - is hard work racist?

I've lived/worked in a farm labor camp and my father was a migrant farmworker.

I went to a high school that has been on the "worst high schools in the state" for decades and graduated less than half of the students who started.

I look male and white.

Who's more oppressed - me or Malia Obama?

Because I see what they teach in schools and have asked them if they understand.

Here's an easy answer: Hard work is not racist. If you are now wealthy, you are less oppressed than an equally wealthy black man in America.

Here's another series of easy questions:

Should we educate all of society to the best of their ability? Are black people inherently a standard deviation below whites in educational ability? If so, why can charter schools like Kipp get their black students to perform exactly the same as their white students, who also perform better than they do in public schools? Are Koreans smart or stupid? How did they go from mostly illiterate (stupid) to top of the world (smart) in two generations?

> Here's an easy answer: Hard work is not racist.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture disagrees. They also say that promptness is also racist.

It's not hard to find people who argue that math is racist...

> If you are now wealthy, you are less oppressed than an equally wealthy black man in America.

Malia Obama is far wealthier than I am, so these programs teach that I'm more oppressed than she is, right? (We both know that they don't.)

> If so, why can charter schools like Kipp get their black students to perform exactly the same as their white students, who also perform better than they do in public schools?

Because public schools suck.

Now - who runs public schools? Hint - it's the same answer as who runs public and (most) private universities. Also, most urban regions (including their police departments). This is not a new phenomena - it's been true for decades.

Given that those folks have failed so badly, should they get more or less power?

BTW - While black parents are very strongly in favor of vouchers for private schools, who opposes them?

> The National Museum of African American History and Culture disagrees. They also say that promptness is also racist.

No, they don't. They said that the belief that hard work will naturally lead to success is more prevalent in white culture. Slaves worked hard without much success, so it is easy to see why this would be less prevalent in black culture, but this difference in beliefs is something that society should strive to fix.

These programs teach that people who are poor are more oppressed than people who aren't. It appears only I knew that, but now you do too.

> Because public schools suck.

Charter schools are public schools. Some charter schools like Kipp perform far better than schools run by local school boards, including top ranked magnet schools, as Angrist showed in Chicago. Private schools in places with vouchers in the US tend to be worse than public schools, wasting time on religious indoctrination. The solution is to expand charters for organizations that run effective schools and examine what they are doing that works, not to completely deregulate and let kids be educated by charlatans.