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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand the appeal of charters. They take away your right as a taxpayer to elect someone to oversee the school. Why would anyone want this?[/quote]

If you don't like the charter, you don't send your kid.

If.there were no charters, I would be stuck sending my kid to a terrible public school or paying for private. 
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Umm no. You just pay to fund your public schools so they aren't terrible.[/quote]

This idea that more money is all that's necessary to improve public education has been definitively shown to be empty rhetoric.  Look at the expenditures that were made in Newark for a sobering example of great intentions, loads of money, and a failure.  Look at spending on Chicago schools.  Look at FCPS and the lack of success in closing the 'achievement gap".  It doesn't make sense to continue with a model/system that has serious flaws.  Competition and choice have made our economy the best in the world.  There is some reason to believe that instituting the same structures to the school system might lead to better results - it certainly seems worth a try.

Someone said that the definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  The Chinese are trying new approaches; the Koreans are successful with a very different model of schooling;  Finland uses a completely different approach.  So, the U.S. ranks in the bottom of the developed world in educational attainment - let's try something new.[/quote]

Chicago is loaded with charter and private schools that end up hurting public schools. Finland is almost entirely state run. Private or charter schools are not allowed. Newark has not been doing that well for decades, but they are in greater decline specifically because of charter schools http://www.edlawcenter.org/news/archives/school-funding/state-underfunding-and-rapid-charter-growth-put-newark-budget-in-crisis.html. Most of China and Korea I believe area also state run and then on top of it these parents send their kids to private schooling in the evenings which I don't think a lot of Americans want to do. I'm not sure what point you are trying to prove with your argument. Your examples do not support public school failings even with great intentions and loads of money. FCPS is doing very well with its achievement gap. In fact I believe it was one of the top if not the top areas for minorities to come for schooling. The fact that this has attracted more minorities obviously brings the achievement down, but that doesn't mean the schooling for them is poor. With I-ready hopefully the school system will be able to show growth and not just achievement which will help demonstrate how well they are doing as a school system. [/quote]

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