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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 
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]

This.

I taught for a high school charter for 5 years. Not in DC but another very large, major city in the US. It was so corrupt. The original mission was nice. To give kids that were kicked out or dropped out of the major city’s regular public schools a second chance to graduate. It was run by a woman and her whole family which encompassed the administration. Only family members and one friend of the family were administrators. One family member was the vice principal, one the IT person, two were accountants (for a school of 250 they needed 2 accountants), etc, etc. There were 8 teachers and we were the underlings and treated like garbage. Zero budget. Even for art. Occasionally if you asked for supplies you would get it. No windows in any classrooms. Not enough space for a class. We had about 50% kids absent regularly but if they all showed up they would have to sit in the hallway. Sewage would overflow occasionally on the floors.

The worst was that all the family administration, which there were about as many as teachers, each got paid six figures salary. Teacher salaries were below average. Pay checks bounced. If you wanted to get your money you had to go to the school’s bank and wait in line with the other teachers and if you were at the end of the line they would tell you that there was no money left. They did pay you back the fees for their bounced checks.

Teachers were fired for trying to unionize the charter schools in our group. We had extremely high turnover of staff. Several teachers didn’t even make it through one day there. I stayed because I enjoyed the teachers and the students. The guidance counselor used to say that afteryou worked there, you could work anywhere.[/quote]

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