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comment by katakowsj
katakowsj  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Charter Schools? (2012 article, still interesting)

Shouldn't charter schools outperform public schools based on the fact that they have parents and children that are specifically seeking an excellent education? Especially in situations where students are chosen by lottery.

As a public educator, in a socio-economically diverse school district, I typically find one or two students in each of my middle school classes that has chronic attendance problems. We contact the parents, connect the student with counseling, make outreach programs available. Regardless of attendance, we work to educate the students as best we can.

I would expect that charter schools, having only dedicated students attend, ought to have better results than public schools hands down, but this isn't the case.





socialistfuck  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What makes a privatized school any better at individualized education?

JakobVirgil  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

one would think but when I was subbing Charter Schools were consistently bad babysitting gigs. A lot of the students are the because they were removed from Public Schools for behavior and attendance issues.

user-inactivated  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That was the issue at the Montessori-style schools around my disctrict.

JakobVirgil  ·  3688 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One time I showed up at a school immaculate playgrounds vegetable gardens the children where extremely well behaved fairly small class size. The teacher left detailed lesson plans and the kids were doing cool stuff.

At the end the day It turned out it was a public school.

I was so used to crap charters I thought it was a expensive private school.