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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s a feature, not a bug. If you want true autonomy for the school leadership then you give up accountability.[/quote]

I think poster raises a good point. Charters are essentially set up to be their own fiefdoms paid for with taxpayer dollars. I am at MV and while my kids have had generally good experiences so far, I am starting to find it disconcerting that if I ever have a problem there is essentially no where to go since school leadership is pretty useless. I am considering moving to the suburbs to be part of a functional school system.[/quote]

Exactly.  There is nowhere to go, if your neighborhood school is egregiously underperforming.  It may be fine for early grades, but what is a 5th grader or middle schooler to do?  Sacrifice the whole educational pathway through high school, to express discontent that will be ignored anyway?  Leaving is not a viable strategy to make change, if they can easily replace you.  Parents need some way to at least force the charter board to take an interest.  A hearing with public testimony could compel the board to answer parent questions, at least.  Nobody likes to bring bad publicity on their school, but I'm running out of other ideas.[/quote]

In my opinion: we should focus our resources on good by right middle schools.  There are many reasons I'm not optimistic that would happen, but I think it would truly benefit us the most. More so than another charter school.

At high school there are at least a good number of test in spots for magnet schools.[/quote]

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