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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article was really depressing.  I work with a kid who is not even close to being a valedictorian in a DC charter school.  Her school keeps taking the kids on college visits and she talks about going to college but she is not prepared at all for college. Her school seems to not be preparing her for doing something else after high school besides college.  I'm worried that she will get into community college and end up taking out loans to pay for remedial courses (you don't get college credit for that) and never finish and end up in debt. I can't get the staff at the charter school to return phone calls or emails so it's hard to know what is going on there.

And I see worksheets for essay writing that give the kids a specific structure to follow but don't expect anything in the way of an independent thought. She thinks she's doing okay because she's passing her classes.  She has no idea.

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Yeah -- I think the charters especially push the rah-rah aspects of college without giving the kids any concept of what it's really like.

It sort of reminds me of kids who say they want to be doctors because they get a lot of positive attention - not because they have any idea of what becoming an MD entails or if they have the talent for it.  Then when they take their first college chemistry course, they realize it's not for them.[/quote]

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