Them athletes are good at the lottery.
JS
Especially those basketball and soccer players. Football players getting pretty good too.
With that said, the system is doing nothing but reintroducing segregation to schools. There are some great charter schools but there are also so bad ones with profits and segregation the only goal. Charter schools have advantages because they are held to a different standard than our traditional public schools. They play by a different set of rules and have resources public schools don't. The NCGA wants public schools to fail. They want to privatize the whole system.
Look where charter schools are built. How many charter schools or private schools are in Wilkes, Surry, Alleghany, or Yadkin County? What about northern Iredell? What about southern Iredell, Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Union Counties?
See a trend?
When the NCGA passed a bill allowing municipalities to form charters, starting with Matthews, Cornelius, and Huntersville, do you think it was the low income individuals that go to Hough, Hopewell, North Mecklenburg, or Matthews that went to their legislatures and advocated for it?
It's not about school choice. By all means send your students where you want, but until the state makes the system fair, the charter school argument is a moot point. Until charter schools are held to the same standards. Until their teachers require the same certifications a teacher at Murphy High does. Until corporations that help build charters aren't allowed to have a % of the enrollment for their employees. Until NCGA members stop taking money from for profit out of state charter entities such as Charter Schools USA. Until charter schools aren't allowed to kick a student out for grades or behavior. Until charter schools magically stop getting top athletes through a "random lottery." Until charter schools stop being a means for segregation in metropolitan and areas with a great number of haves or have nots. Until money is stopped being stripped from public schools because "they're failing" with no intention or plan to help these schools. Until public schools aren't graded through the terrible NC report card system. Until the NCGA stops ignoring the Leandro ruling. Until public schools aren't set up to fail and are given the same advantages and glory charter schools are by Phil Berger and his cronies in Raleigh, the charter school argument is a moot point.