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MineralMan

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20. Why would anyone support something like this?

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #15)

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 03:22 PM

Oct 2014

Nobody supports bogus charter schools. This one sounds like a scam from the start. There are also excellent charter schools. I look at things on an individual basis, not as a group. Where I live, in the Twin Cities, MN, we have many charter schools that are educating kids just fine. We've also had some schools that were scams from the start. The latter group of schools gets closed down. The former are educational institutions.

Condemning all charter schools is not the answer. It simply isn't.

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NC charter school teachers can't get paid, can't get unemployment. State has no record of school. [View all] madfloridian Oct 2014 OP

Holy crap. WhiteAndNerdy Oct 2014 #1

Makes you wonder where the money went in just a couple of months. madfloridian Oct 2014 #2

Jail. grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #3

You read my brain BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #5

Concrete Roses STEM Academy? That's an inspirational name for a school. Enthusiast Oct 2014 #4

I was thinking, the name alone Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #7

Yeah, but it has STEM in the name! QC Oct 2014 #12

The name "Steel Magnolias" has already been used. n/t LeftinOH Oct 2014 #16

Sugar Magnolia too. Enthusiast Oct 2014 #19

This doesn't make sense. Unknown Beatle Oct 2014 #6

I think it meant no record with state about unemployment insurance? madfloridian Oct 2014 #9

Something fishy is going on with the state of NC. wildeyed Oct 2014 #13

Here's their board of directors... hughee99 Oct 2014 #18

I blame everything on the Governor. littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #8

Piratization of Public Education Octafish Oct 2014 #10

Behold, the Invisible Handjob! hatrack Oct 2014 #11

There HAS to be some sort of recourse Dirty Socialist Oct 2014 #14

Gosh, and once again, all the charter defenders on DU are oddly missing from this thread! Starry Messenger Oct 2014 #15

Why would anyone support something like this? MineralMan Oct 2014 #20

Why indeed? Starry Messenger Oct 2014 #21

Well, if they're like me, they simply avoid education threads most of the time. MineralMan Oct 2014 #23

Students' school conditions are the same as the teachers'. Starry Messenger Oct 2014 #24

Hmm, what could have possibly gone wrong here? nt ladjf Oct 2014 #17

What your school privatization looks like. Lex Oct 2014 #22