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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel lost as well. I will (hopefully) be a naturalized citizen in 4 years. Who do I vote for?
I am an atheist and pro choice. I don’t care about gay marriage either way. I support school choice and charter schools. I also support science. 
I am strongly opposed to illegal immigration, political correctness gone mad, social justice warfare, and everything along these lines. I guess I am neither liberal nor progressive in this sense.

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Charter schools are a miserable failure almost everywhere.  If you love sticking to clearly failed policies, the R party is for you![/quote]
Where I live, many of them (it a version of them called choice schools) are a huge success.
One of the most popular ones is in a wealthy, majority white school district.
They tried to open its “chapter” in a neighboring district that has around 30% SES students overall (the schools differ in that regard quite drastically) and were essentially not allowed to operate, though many people were interested in enrolling.
At least here, charter schools are a way for families that are interested in educating their kids to get together and avoid dealing with problems that aren’t theirs to solve, and moreover, the problems too big for them to solve. 
If public schools implemented at least some of what the charter schools are offering, charters would be much less popular.
[b]Not everyone can afford private to not deal with behavior and academic issues and lack of parental involvement in school affairs.[/b] [/quote]

That’s not a benefit of charter schools, that’s a benefit of any school that allows you to pull your child out of the general population.  Where I live magnet public schools accomplish this objective for parents who so choose to enroll.  This is problematic for obvious reasons, but charter schools have even bigger problems that make them a non-starter.[/quote]

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