Not any deep knowledge, but I have a relative who works with KIPP and charter school reform and policy organizations in California and parts of the south. I thought that the article is pretty encompassing of what she has said whenever we talk about charter schools, although it would be difficult to examine every detail of how they work. I know that many of them work very well-- I visited one of KIPP's schools in New Orleans a few years ago, for instance, and it seems that they have been able to find a model that encourages students to spend much more time working than students at many private schools while still enjoying the learning process. She's also complained about how the charter schools that don't perform well make the good charter schools look much worse. What do you think about it?
Don't know nearly enough about this to pass my opinion off as worth reading. There's a sense of "it can't hurt" and a simultaneous sense of "ability will out regardless." But I'm still reading everything in sight about education in America so I can have a coherent position on it.
That's great to try and be informed about it, at least. I wish that I could recommend a book or article, but I haven't read as much on our current education system as I should.
Shouldn't charter schools outperform public schools based on the fact that they have parents and children that are specifically seeking an excellent education? Especially in situations where students are chosen by lottery. As a public educator, in a socio-economically diverse school district, I typically find one or two students in each of my middle school classes that has chronic attendance problems. We contact the parents, connect the student with counseling, make outreach programs available. Regardless of attendance, we work to educate the students as best we can. I would expect that charter schools, having only dedicated students attend, ought to have better results than public schools hands down, but this isn't the case.
What makes a privatized school any better at individualized education?
one would think but when I was subbing Charter Schools were consistently bad babysitting gigs. A lot of the students are the because they were removed from Public Schools for behavior and attendance issues.
One time I showed up at a school immaculate playgrounds vegetable gardens the children where extremely well behaved fairly small class size. The teacher left detailed lesson plans and the kids were doing cool stuff. At the end the day It turned out it was a public school. I was so used to crap charters I thought it was a expensive private school.