Never said it was guaranteed. I said "where my kids attended and surrounding charters" do in fact provide transportation via buses. You can't make a general, negative, blanket statement when it doesn't apply to everyone. You can't say "busing is not an option" and only affluent people can afford a car ride when that is not the truth. Also, plenty of kids and parents from not so affluent households attend charters everywhere.
Everything you say is true. But it’s also true that plenty of parents in our town couldn’t get their child to school at an elementary school four miles away if it weren’t for school buses. Either they have no dependable car, or their job(s) simply won’t allow the flexibility to drop off and pick up kids. So, for those folks, a charter school with no bus isn’t an option.
There are also plenty of families in our area who struggle to provide one meal a day. Without the guaranteed free breakfast and lunch and the weekend backpacks, they’d be in real trouble. For them, most charters aren’t an option.
So, intentional or not, charters and private school vouchers have heavily contributed to economic segregation, and sometimes racial in many school systems. When that happens, often the behavior problems increase. And more people want to leave. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
I’m way more concerned about how these dynamics affect academic opportunity than I am about how it affects athletics.
My kids got a quality education in Thomasville City Schools. But the last one graduated in 2013. The timing of that, along with the timing of current legislative priorities, makes it no coincidence that that educational quality isn’t what it was.
