An education reporter on charter schools
@MandyHager @CitizenBomber there’s already people making money off vulnerable kids – charter schools
— Kirsty Johnston (@kirsty_johnston) June 1, 2015
There’s three interesting things about this exchange.
- Portraying charter schools as exploiting vulnerable kids, rather than helping them
- Portraying charter schools as people making money. As far as I know every charter school operator in NZ is a not-for-profit entity
- The tweeter is the NZ Herald’s specialist education reporter
If you were a charter school operator, teacher or parent what confidence would you have that the Herald will report fairly on your school, when the reporter seems to have such a negative view of them.