Stupid In America John Stossel Reports on The Success Of Charter Schools And The Effect Of The Teachers Unions

[Clevelander17]

No, charter schools are not the answer because they cherry-pick students (and even in doing so, rarely outperform public schools). They haven't been able to overcome the problems that come with absentee parentism (which has risen in recent years) and poverty that have plagued public schools.

Education spending has skyrocketed in recent years because all of the mandates (many of which are encoded into law) coming from state and Federal education agencies. Most of these mandates have to do with requirements for students with disabilities and those that don't speak English. It does not cost that much to educate an "average" kid. However that's not where the money is going...

[Clevelander17]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

our charter school did great here but then they realized that it was not diversified.
so they now let anybody in with no qualifications looks like any other ghetto school.
ACLU says this is progress.

So let's see, the complaint here is that a charter school that receives PUBLIC money is now open to the PUBLIC? Charter schools were never meant to be publicly-funded private schools. If they truly are the solution to all of the nation's educational problems then they'll take on all-comers, just like traditional public schools do. The problem is that part of the charter school gimmick is enrollment manipulation to try to game the test score data.