1. On the contrary. When a student from a school goes to a charter that school writes that charter a check. Physically writes a check. Got that?
///So the public school has smaller enrollments, smaller class sizes, lower classification possibly for the "real athletes"?
2. But our tax dollars should not be paying for kids to develop those characteristics. ///(Do the parents of these students pay taxes?)
3.Solutions? Get the public schools better. I agree. But it's nothing really but segregation just masked in higher learning. Make schools better. Pay better, and make people have to solve problems.
/// (Without discipline policies enforced, how do you make it better? Politically correct policies allow just about any environment to exist. Call it social decline, but without a learning environment, there is no learning.)
4. I understand charters. Disagree with them however. We are already raising a land of kittens, who can't deal with social issues, charters just accentuate that. Be a private school. Or .... Gasp.... Get your butt involved in the public schools to make them better.
///(I think the kittens are in every school....Look...I love the public schools and have no connection to anyone in a charter...but, given a choice, people are choosing to put their kids in charters more and more because the schools we knew are not the same anymore. Kids are running the building. Teachers are leaving in droves...and it isn't a money problem. It is an environment problem.)
In conclusion, I agree with you. Make public schools better. I disagree with labeling all charters. The tax payer deserves results. If charters put pressure on public schools to improve, they should be thanked.