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[quote=Anonymous]I think daily PE with team sports is possibly the toughest one to check off the list with a charter. Charter schools typically don't have the funds to purpose build a facility, which is why they are often in retrofitted office spaces. Typically this means they don't have athletic facilities or green space which makes PE tough and team sports very difficult as well.  Renting field time/pool time adds costs and with the charters at the high school level being pretty small typically, to get enough participation to field a team that can compete they'd probably also need to add transportation (for games, practices, etc.) and that also adds cost. I think that can extend to other extracurriculars as well - hard to have a thriving drama club if you have no performance spaces. Healthy lunch options may also be problematic in retrofitted buildings. I do think the College Park Academy potentially has a bit of an advantage over many charters because it is renting a purpose built school facility.

You might be able to get the rest of the list checked off at a charter (though I don't think a current school at PG would meet the criteria). I think one of the big negatives about charters I saw in other cities I lived in that had a lot more of them than PG County does was that extracurriculars are often really limited due to facilities and you lose a lot of the sense of community when school is just the place you work.  [/quote]

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