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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter schools bleed money from the public schools. And, charter schools don't have the same requirements as public schools or any oversite.  It's a crap shoot, could be amazing or a total disaster!  More often than not, a disaster [/quote]

New poster. Charters don’t actually take any money from public schools directly. All schools are funded per pupil. If a public school’s enrollment is suffering, I think they should do a better job of figuring out why people don’t want to send their kid there versus blaming the school they opted to send their kids to. I do agree that charters need more oversight and that many of them are absolutely terrible and not actually a better option than the public alternative. That being said, I think[b] it’s clear that parents want something that isn’t necessarily offered in the traditional public school setting[/b]. It would be better for districts to offer those options rather than fighting against them.[/quote]

For the parents that want something different, they should pay to send their children to private school, not use my tax dollars to support charters[/quote]

Here - let me fix that for you. If a caregiver can't afford to live in a wealthy neighborhood with good schools, with by-right school boundaries that are based on historic racism and redlining, they should keep their children in schools that have been underinvested in and underperformed for generations. They shouldn't have a taxpayer funded option for a school with better outcomes where their children are safe and learning. Only people with the means to 1. buy a house in an expensive neighborhood and/or 2. pay for private school should have anyone meaningful choice about which school their child attends.[/quote]

This would be less holier than thou if people weren't fleeing their IB EOTP and in CH[/quote]

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