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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know about team sports being offered directly by the school, but at our neighborhood elementary there are essentially neighborhood teams that practice at the school facilities. They are administered by outside groups but they are on site so they are essentially school teams with a couple of kids from privates added to the mix. You also have a pretty active band/orchestra program so the school really is a center of the community. It hosts programs that bring the neighborhood together. I think you lose some of that due to facility limitations at many charters.

I was thinking primarily of high school when I initially made the sports/EC comments, but I think the facilities issues with retrofitting rather than purpose building a school can be problematic in the younger grades too. I do wonder though if we'll see more true school buildings turn into charters though because there have been a couple of religious privates that didn't survive the recession (like the Lutheran school in Hyattsville). Some of those buildings may need work, but they'd have a better set up from the start having things like a gym and a stage and a cafeteria.

And yes, I think the charters have to toe the line more with county curriculum since they are using the same measures for success in terms of testing results. Private schools have a lot more freedom. That being said, there is no reason you can't tackle the common core standards via progressive methods. [/quote]

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