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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the previous posters who say charters are only attended by kids whose parents self-selected in. I know of many families at MANY charters who chose the charter without looking at it, thinking about it, or investigating it simply because it was near their house or near a care-provider's location. You would be amazed at how many families at  language immersion schools have no idea their kid is learning chinese in an immersion model or french or spanish at LAMB or Elsie Whitlow Stokes. [/quote]Interesting point.  The brothers of the kid I tutor ended up at a charter because their tutor met someone on metro who worked there so the boys went there.  Later I found out that it was not a high-performing charter but the parents didn't question it.  They also assumed that the kid I tutored would go there but she wanted to go with her friends to the charter her middle school fed into.  She ended up going to the different charter with her friends.  It was probably a better school than the one her brothers went to but it's hard for me to know because they would never answer my emails or phone calls!  Plus they kept sending her with her classmates on college tours when the kid is not going to be able to handle college.  This drives me crazy!  She's a great kid who is not getting the specific support she needs.  But that's another issue.

At any rate, this pp has a good point. My student's parents are good, responsible parents in that they're making sure their kids go to tutoring and go to school but they really don't know whether one charter is better than the other.[/quote]

How educated are the parents?  [/quote]I don't know. May or may not have high school degrees.  Possible that Dad has some college but I doubt it.  We don't discuss their educational background.[/quote]

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