This is a story about a charter school in my town of Chico, CA that had its charter revoked last night by the school board. I used to serve on that board, and I would have voted to pull the charter too. Of course, I never would have voted for it in the first place since the premise wasn’t sound to begin with. When a “green school” can’t make it in liberally thinking California, you know it had to be bad.
Excerpts from the Chico Enterprise Record:
As of this morning, there is no more Chico Green School.
On Wednesday night, after hearing impassioned pleas to give the charter school one more chance to prove its worth, the Chico Unified School District board of trustees, on a split vote, decided to revoke the school’s charter effective immediately.
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Chico Green School received its charter in 2009, and opened its doors to students on Sept. 7, 2010.
Two days later, Chico Green received its first demand it fix things from the CUSD.
Through the following months, the school was accused of failing to produce a curriculum that met state standards, and failing to provide coursework that met the admissions requirements for the University of California or the California State University system.
The Chico Green School’s board of directors was also accused of various violations of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act.
In June, the school was also denied accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the agency that accredits schools.
Full story at the Chico Enterprise Record
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Now let see the charters pulled for those school boards that push Intelligent Design
Even if they meet all the requirements as such the school above could not seem to meet? What it must be like to live in fear and desire to shut down anything disagreed with…
“The Chico Green School’s board of directors was also accused of various violations of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act.”
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A bunch of delusional greens trying to avoid sunshine laws? Whodda thunk it?
D.Marshall says:
August 18, 2011 at 11:07 am
Now let see the charters……..
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How helpful and relevant to the discussion. Do you have any other meaningful contributions or are you just a one-trick-pony?
Even then it was still a split vote. There is hope yet for California being the home of idiots.
At least the Intelligent Design people insist on everything being called a “theory” and don’t insist anything is “settled science”.
Absolutely right, kind of. Science is about empirical testing of falsifiable hypotheses to come to an objective truth, not about the flimsy reinterpretation of tired articles of faith that either don’t stand up to scrutiny or are intentionally impossible to disprove.
Isn’t that what you meant? You’re seeking consistency it would seem, so I assume it is…
To my limited understanding, charter schools are supposed to provide accountability by contract among teachers, students, and parents. So who broke the contract? The school’s board of directors? Watts up with that?
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Once again, “greens” have judged their performance by their intentions, not their actions. They’ll undoubtedly find someone else to blame.
From what I’ve seen those who come out of faith based schools have a better education, are better people and behave better than those who don’t, especially as teenagers.
I find most atheists are an intolerant bunch.
“That board has 60s days to take action…”
Well, if they’re living in the 60s then it might be cool, man.
Brad S @ur momisugly 12:02
Atheism is intellectually intolerable; it requires as much faith to believe in the non-existence of God as in the existence of God. Agnosticism, AKA skepticism, is defensible. But it has its limits, too. Who believes nothing, is nothing.
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Well, keep in mind that the charter wasn’t pulled because it was a “green” school preaching the AGW nonsense, it was pulled because it failed to meet state requirements.
Now that said, there are a lot of people who would want to believe that because the school had such a mission, that the requirements should be overlooked. As for the “intelligent design” schools, if a parent VOLUNTARILY wants to send their child to such a school AND it meets the state requirements, I don’t have a problem but if it should fail to meet the requirements of a general education, then sure, its charter should be pulled too.
In other words, lets keep in mind the reason for the charter being pulled. It wasn’t because of the theme, it was because it wasn’t meeting general requirements.
The problem that Charter Schools tend to have is that if they are publicly funded they must operate under most of the same rules as a regular public school. There are some, just some, exceptions to the rules that a charter school has.
Most of the people who start and run charter schools don’t actually know the law they have to operate under. They just kind of assume that charter schools don’t have to follow all of the laws regarding public institutions when that isn’t true. And they often bump into this if they and have problems. Now most do learn how to manage the rules in a year or two but some just seem oblivious to the fact that they are a public institution and must follow the law and rules like everyone else.
I have never understood why so many people react so violently at the mere mention of the Theory of Intelligent Design. Take the standard definition of the Theory of Evolution, remove the word random, and you have ID.
Is ID proveable? No
Is Evolution proveable? Maybe, but the proof is so difficult that you might as well call it impossible.
Get a life. Learn to allow others to have an opinion that differs from yours. As long as they aren’t requiring you to believe as they do, they aren’t harming you.
Green Schools,
If they can’t make it there, they can’t make it anywhere.
Apologies to Old Blue Eyes
After browsing their website I still don’t get the reason for using the term “Green”.
Meanwhile, how many students did they brainwash, er, fail?
Chico Green School: Declared DOA.
What kind of courses are offered at a “Green School”?
Recycling, Polar Bear Counting, Light Bulb Awareness, Bicycle Worship, Anger Management?
Be afraid.
D.Marshall says:
August 18, 2011 at 11:07 am
Now let see the charters pulled for those school boards that push Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design is not the antithesis of evolution. ID is a not unreasonable response to the claim that evolution proves God doesn’t exist.
I’m sure people who live in the Chico area have a lot more background information, but based on what was written in the article, I don’t think we can draw any conclusions at all about this action vis-a-vis Global Warming acceptance. In most places charter schools of any stripe are treated with hostility by the public education establishment (the cartel).
It may simply have been that the Chico Green School board of directors were not diligent enough meeting the letter of the law and became an easy target for forces which wanted them gone for other reasons. It’s also possible the enrolment in a school apparently devoted to promoting a “Green” agenda was insufficient to support it.
Given the AGW message has thoroughly infiltrated both public and private educational institutions at all levels, I really don’t see how shutting down one charter school is going to make a difference.
I’m also torn over relative risks of having students who, while totally indoctrinated by Green/AGW groupthink, can at least still read and write verses some students from public schools who are effectively illiterate. Not a happy choice, so I for one am not ready to celebrate.
Dear kim,
If anything is ‘intellectually intolerable’ about atheism it is because you are intolerant.
If you’re going to be intolerant of something you should at least make an effort to understand what it actually is.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity. It requires no faith.
Agnosticism and scepticism are not the same thing.
Dear Mark,
Evolution is an observable, demonstrable fact. The Theory of Evolution is the explanation of the fact.
Dear Anthony,
I will continue to read this WUWT, which is by-and-large excellent, but I will not be venturing into the intellectual wasteland of the comment section again.
Very sad.
The school claims to develop children into “citizens of the world.” I would respectfully submit that any school which has its instructional foundation in a legal non-entity is bound for trouble.
Evolution is absolutely provable. Antibiotic resistance by bacteria are one evidence. Domestication of various foods and animals are another. Even “heirloom” varieties of things are much different than the wild version.
We know very well that through a process of selection, we can change a species or a variety within a species. In nature, nature does the selection. That’s why polar bears turned white from their original brown. Lighter bears were more successful hunters in the arctic, would have had more offspring, and would have lived to produce more cubs. Eventually the population of bears becomes white because a brown bear would be seen by its food a mile away.