Chris Johnson wrote:
The answer is so simple, I'm surprised you ask the question. Charter schools cherry pick students who have involved parents.
WM: In my personal observation of only two charter schools, neither one chose children with involved parental units.
Public schools can't duplicate charter schools success because they are forced to work with more challenging situations of far greater variety and depth.
WM: That's both true and not true. Quelle quandary. I think a deciding factor is that charter schools have far fewer students.
I suspect, but don't know, that charter schools also get to cherry pick the better teachers, too.
WM: They 'cherry pick' insofar as I have noticed, by having teachers who got (a) fed up with the public schools as employees, some after ten and more years inside it; (b) trained as teachers but couldn't get into the system as full time employees; and/or (c) trained to teach but never wanted to be part of the public school system nor the private school systems.
WizardMarks, Central
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