In my ultra-liberal neck of the woods, even with no charter schools there is still some scope to choose among public schools. We've taken advantage of it ourselves. So you can still get a malignant type of sorting.
So I'm of two minds about charters. Purely in terms of evidence, by the way, there isn't much to support them, but as the don in Goodfellas says, "why take chances?" Though really good evidence either way IMO is hard to come by. My original remark, it hardly needs to be said except for certain dunces, did not knock charter schools. I was imprecise, however, since in important respects charter schools are public schools. Those with some combination of money, initiative and good luck can benefit from (good) charters, but it's no way to run a railroad. D.C. has had crappy charter schools whose collapse has screwed the kids unlucky enough to have gone through them. You could say they were screwed to begin with, but as I said it's no way to run a school system. > > Good lord, put a sock in it Shemano. Charter schools can cherry-pick > students, leading to a race-to-the-bottom for public schools. > > Gee, why don't we have "charter Air Force" and see what happens to > national defense? > > > Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
