Are charter schools useless?

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I can only speak of the ones in my city.

We have 20. Two of them have done well. One has always had success. It serves mainly middle class white kids. The other one took several years but finally started having pretty good test scores and college admission rates. It's heavily subsidized by a local wealthy family. I heard $56 million but I have no way of knowing if that's accurate.

The other 18 all have very low test scores, high dropout rates, etc. Not a one is successful. And the kids bounce in and out of them, from charter to charter, back to the traditional public schools, then a different charter, etc. It's a mess.

I'd put my own kids in the one consistently successful charter. But none of the others.