BOSTON — A Boston University student has enraged his left-leaning classmates by appearing in a school-sponsored YouTube video in which he lists his reasons for backing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — the worst of which, in the opinion of his detractors, is the student's criticism of multiculturalism.
Nicholas Fuentes, a sophomore, does not appear to be backing down. A review of his Twitter account appears to show a student who is reveling in tweaking his classmates' liberal views:
Opponents of Question 2 claim that the charter schools themselves are not superior to traditional public schools; rather, they maintain, these schools cherry-pick exceptional students and are engaged in selection bias (wherein parents who prioritize their kids' education are the ones who seek out charter schools). Therefore, according to this line of reasoning, charter schools only show gains because they are taking better students, and removing those talented students from traditional public schools hurts those schools.
The evidence, both in Massachusetts and around the country, is that charter schools are anything but an elaborate sorting mechanism; rather, the entire school district shows improvement when charter schools move in.
