Charter school parents: why are you okay with diverting resources from public schools?

[Anonymous]

Please do share?

[Anonymous]

Charter schools are public schools, except better.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty comfortable with it. Being a public charter school. Feel free to apply.

[Anonymous]

Completely fine with having my children attend what is also a public school. Next question.

[Anonymous]

Because it could be a lot worse in DC. The quality of charters here is often good enough that it is a legitimate choice for parents.

[Anonymous]

The fact that union shills are so clueless about what a public charter school is, makes me deeply uncomfortable about how my tax dollars are being spent.

Can we please close some more district schools? They're obviously not good at their jobs, and definitely a waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

I wish charter schools didn't exist. If they were outlawed tomorrow, my neighborhood school would basically immediately become great. However, because they exist, and because I got into a good one, I'm going to use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please do share?

I'm not in favor of Charters, but we are too far gone down this road to turn back now so let's talk about partnership and transparency. This question is old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please do share?

I'm not in favor of Charters, but we are too far gone down this road to turn back now so let's talk about partnership and transparency. This question is old.

+1. OP, you arrived at the dance about a decade too late.

[Anonymous]

Troll, but I'll bite. I started off from a very anti-charter perspective. I was a parent at our IB Title I EOTP for six years. I held every PTA office in turn, fundraised, and workes super hard. The kids got an adequate education. We went charter to have an upper grades and middle school experience that was not fraught with physical violence and where there would be more than just one or two kids above grade level. Children get older faster than schools get better.

The experience taught me, unfortunately that while more money would be nice, the real problem is that downtown is a bunch of incompetent morons. You can't trust them to do anything right. Until DCPS has better central management, nothing will change. I have no idea what to do about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish charter schools didn't exist. If they were outlawed tomorrow, my neighborhood school would basically immediately become great. However, because they exist, and because I got into a good one, I'm going to use it.

Yours might, but what about all the kids EOTR? The neighborhood school model locks in and magnifies the effexts of residential racial and economic segregation.

[Anonymous]

OP, charters are public schools.

I do wish charters were even more financially transparent and were required to comply federal with federal laws supporting kids with SN and had to retain their students - even those who get into trouble - in just the same way a neighborhood is required to do. Charters use the neighborhood schools as their safety net. They know the neighborhood school has to and does take any kid who they can't manage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, charters are public schools.

I do wish charters were even more financially transparent and were required to comply federal with federal laws supporting kids with SN and had to retain their students - even those who get into trouble - in just the same way a neighborhood is required to do. Charters use the neighborhood schools as their safety net. They know the neighborhood school has to and does take any kid who they can't manage.

+1. Charters have their problems and I would like more transparency. But until DCPS gets its act together, parents will continue to choose charters or move. Parents work really hard and then give up because DCPS incompetence makes progress nearly impossible. Google Miner principal slap child if yoi don't believe me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish charter schools didn't exist. If they were outlawed tomorrow, my neighborhood school would basically immediately become great. However, because they exist, and because I got into a good one, I'm going to use it.

Was your neighborhood school great before charters?

[Anonymous]

As a proud supporter of neighborhood schools, OP: please STFU. You're just trolling, and not helping anything.