Charter schools: Wave of the future? - Polidicks

The only charter school in my town is full of some really strange kids. Most of them couldn't handle going to public school.

i don't think it's quite possible to sum up all schools whether public or charter.

Hillsborough county in florida is weird in how it handles charter and STEM type programs. They place them in literally the shittiest schools and areas to make them look like they're doing better when it's only a bunch of smart kids being placed in a school located in the center of the ghetto with a bunch of people who don't give a fuck.

Just watched [B]Waiting for Superman[/B] and this is to be expected Good watch by the way, don't pass it up. If you have a chance, it will give you a good perspective of USA educational system [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/[/url]

[QUOTE=ScoutKing;33759235]Where i live, charter schools are just "holding areas" of the young failures of our society. AKA only delinquents go to charter schools in my town. The district has a very high test score average on standardized tests, and low tolerance for crime/trouble, and would love to get ride of anyone they can who don't meet certain needs. I am completely fine with the idea of the failures and fuck offs going to the charter school down the road. I mean it's hard to expect much of these kids to achieve anything, while we let them water down the school when all they do is cause problems? The fact charter schools are a "wave of the future" scares me, because where i am they're only shit and only for the shit. Literally, they're like prisons where the parents send their troubled kid because the public school system suggested it too them or expelled them.[/QUOTE] did you just use an anecdote to dismiss an entire thing

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;33767655]Just furthering the gap between rich and poor. Pretty soon going to public school will doom you to poverty just as surely as being born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks.[/QUOTE] Because a public school is oh so much better in that area.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;33767655]Just furthering the gap between rich and poor. Pretty soon going to public school will doom you to poverty just as surely as being born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks.[/QUOTE] how? [release]While charter schools provide an alternative to other public schools, they are part of the public education system and are not allowed to charge tuition.[/release] that's right there in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article on charter schools

But . . . I pay $250 to go to mine . . .

[QUOTE=Contag;33759856]I'm not American and there's not really an analogous institution in Australia (our private schools get more government funding than the public schools and go around building apartment blocks) so could someone please tell me: what on earth is a charter school?[/QUOTE] I can't answer your question (I'm Australian too) but yeah I will never get that with private schools. Last year, my old private school (I go to a public school now though, and I certainly don't regret it) received $14 million in governmnent subsidies, but what about my current public school? Around $11 million although we have far more students. Hell, many projects at the school are funded through voluntary work, for example the school canteen is run by volunteers and every now and then we'll have a barbecue to raise funds. It's probably because my school hasn't really outputted too many great individuals (as most of the poor in the area come to this school) but the private school does indeed have more "valuable" people, I used to be friends with the son from the family of one of the famous wineries in the area here (Drayton's Family Wines) for example. Fuck the government funding though, why should a damn [i]private school[/i] get more funding than a public school?