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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Totally agree.  Middle school is the  missing piece in both the neighborhood and charter landscapes.  I am slightly more optimistic, I do know people enrolling at Stuart-Hobson and Eliot-Hine.  Not sure of what's going on at Jefferson and Cardozo.  But at least the first two seem to be making progress such that people are willing to enroll for 6th grade at least.  Maybe there's a tipping point?  Between those two schools there's a lot of seats-- I know Eliot-Hine has room in its building to expand significantly as needed.[/quote]

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