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Squinch

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6. Yeah. Give them charter schools. Let them see what they're inflicting on the rest of us.

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:45 PM

Oct 2012

Statistics about charter schools:

17% perform better than public schools

37% perform worse

the rest perform the same.

This from schools that self select more motivated students with more involved parents, and who turn away anyone who has a learning issue or disability.

They should be blowing the doors off the public schools. And they can't even keep up. They must truly suck.

Yeah, give it to the rich neighborhoods.

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Do the Wealthy Need Segregated Charter Schools? [View all] yurbud Oct 2012 OP

The wealthy don't send their kids to charter schools. RandySF Oct 2012 #1

if they could set up a charter that is as exclusive as the private school... yurbud Oct 2012 #4

they can and do. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #13

They do these days. It's cheaper to set up a school for their little darlings and fund it off the HiPointDem Nov 2012 #12

Depending on the quality of the local public schools, well-off parents SheilaT Oct 2012 #2

I'm in favor of anything that concentrates the wealthy in groups - makes it easier to find them come firenewt Oct 2012 #3

Also, we don't want our children exposed to those values. Squinch Oct 2012 #5

Yeah. Give them charter schools. Let them see what they're inflicting on the rest of us. Squinch Oct 2012 #6

I wish someone would say those numbers to Obama's face and ask him to justify yurbud Oct 2012 #7

the for-profit charters probably don't even worry about performance yurbud Oct 2012 #8

"That self-select more motivated students with more involved parents ..." Igel Oct 2012 #9

You say hardly, but then you describe what I have described: Squinch Oct 2012 #10

Then there's the kind that selects the students. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #14

"Segregated Charter Schools." formercia Oct 2012 #11