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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In theory, I think charter schools are fine. My understanding is that they were originally justified as places to test experimental ideas to see whether they would work before used in larger settings, or to use a different approach with traditionally more challenging populations who were not being served well in typical public schools.

In practice what I see happening:
1) Truly needy low income kids cannot go because charters are exempt from providing transportation or F/RL. 
2) SPED services are almost always inadequate 
3) Charter schools can 'expel' or push out kids who they don't want. They then get to keep the $$ from those kids while the public school is stuck picking up the pieces with no funding for that student for that school year 
4) for profit schools... 
5) UMC people use certain charters as de facto privates when they don't feel like paying for actual private school and don't like their public option; there's no incentive to improve the existing public schools while also taking funding away (which wouldn't happen if these people just went with privates)[/quote]

I'd add to your list:
6) Anti-union and anti-public education groups push charters specifically as a way to undermine unions and public education.  Charters siphon resources and kids with engaged parents away from public schools.
7) Charter schools as a whole have problems with quality, accountability, and corruption.  There are tons of stories about people using charter schools as a grift, with the victims being the kids who get a garbage education while charter school execs and their friends make out like bandits.  Public schools aren't perfect, but they have a lot more transparency and oversight.  [/quote]

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