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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel stuck on this one because I understand the problem with charters with regards to public schools BUT I am so frustrated with our public school for things that are only minimally about demographics and are mostly about what I consider to be outdated, developmentally inappropriate rules and teaching methods. We're trying to go charter just to get away from this environment I think is not conducive to learning.

I know anti-charter people will tell me "work to change your school." But that's such a huge expectation. I have a job, we're not rich. I understand the problems with charters, [b]but it's SO MUCH EASIER for me to find a charter that has an approach I like better and just send my kid there[/b].

My ideal would be for my local neighborhood school to offer a better environment. It doesn't. Charters offer me a choice that I think would be better for my kid. I get why it's complicated, but it's also very, very simple.[/quote]

To that I will say that sometimes Charters get wrapped up in the promotion of “their approach” and the marketing of that approach to prospective and current parents that the program is diluted.

Also OP just as conservatives don’t like to care for kids after they are out of the uterus, charter schools do not take the kids with involved special needs. Sure they take the easy cases so they can pump up the numbers of sped kids they enroll (think speech articulation IEPs or mild ADHD), but the bulk of that very very expensive therapies etc will fall to public schools that are underfunded as they are.

It is one of those things that sounds good at first (YAY my kid gets to experience ___ cool new program), but when that brought up to mass scale, it results in huge issues across the system.[/quote]

This just isn't always true though. My ADHD kid got the services we asked for at a DCPS school and IEP implementation was pretty straightforward. But she's had a better experience at a charter because their approach (smaller class sizes, incorporating art and music in ways that keep DD engaged, more experiential learning and fewer worksheets, etc.). My child simply needs fewer services because she is no longer in a large class with a lot of very rigid rules, minimal art, a lot of time in seats doing worksheets or listening to teacher lecturing, so the needs she has that help her engage with school and follow the skills coaching she is getting are actually getting met.

I have not felt that the approach is just about marketing. It's very clearly believed and followed by HoS and the teachers we've interacted with. It's not some high-concept approach. It's literally just "hey what if we didn't treat children like cattle moving through the branding line, and instead sought to meet them where they are at with developmentally appropriate classrooms, schedules, and curriculum?"[/quote]

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