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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You call them "less desireable".  You do. I call them needing a specific, high quality educational model that perhaps differs from that of other students.  [/quote]
No lectures here. I teach many kids who have been kicked out of charters, for being deemed 'less desireable'. I am speaking from experience. Charters run kids out that they do not want to or cannot deal with, and the heavy lifting is done by the public schools, who get dumped on. [/quote]

I can't speak for other charters but the instances I'm familiar with only "kick" kids out when they are expelled for being repeatedly violent and abusive to a criminal level to other students, to faculty and staff.  Otherwise, they typically self-select out, after repeated failure after failure, being several grade levels behind and unable/unwilling to put in the extra work needed to come up to where they are supposed to be.

So...  What is your magical cure for dealing with hard violence, or for miraculously bringing them up several grades?  Or do you just sweep it all under the carpet like the rest of the DCPS system does?  Care to share some HONEST reality about it?[/quote]
Ugh. How can you not see the flaws in what you are saying? Where do those aggressive violent kids go? DCPS, that's where! There is no magic cure, and trust me when one of those kids ends up in your classroom, there is no sweeping it under the rug. I do not have a cure, as schools should not be the front line for generational poverty. Just saying that the charter response of removing them from school, is passing the problem on. Fine thing to do, but just acknowledge it.[/quote]

It's a flaw to point out that charters expel criminally violent students and not have a solution for dealing with them, but it's perfectly fine and no flaw to point out that DCPS schools basically just passes the problem on to society and has no solution either?

I also disagree with the whole structure of this argument and here's how it's to be reversed:  The beauty of having charters is that there is are opportunities, there are choices that can be made.  Students that behave poorly, that do not make their education a priority are making a choice.  As I see it, they are exercising their choice to go back to DCPS if they behave badly or don't do the work.  The charters are the ones OPENING doors to a wide and diverse range of students.  It's the students who are slamming those doors shut on themselves - most will do well - it's typically less than a single digit percentage that get kicked back to DCPS from charter schools in a given year.  DCPS represents the status quo, it's where they would have been anyways, had there been no charters. [/quote]

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