How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System?

[MeachTheMonster]

Charter schools are no solution. Some of them are great some of them suck, just like public schools.

They are ALL subject to the same problems. Education as a whole needs to be fixed, doesn't matter what you call the schools.

 

[Jhoon]

Charter schools are no solution. Some of them are great some of them suck, just like public schools.

They are ALL subject to the same problems. Education as a whole needs to be fixed, doesn't matter what you call the schools.

here in philadelphia, youre seeing what they want to do the public education system. Breaking unions is the okie doke, having 300 thousand illiterate children is their ultimate goal. Dumb kids equal free labor in the future.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I don't think the government should be in charge of education period. They don't have the resources to sustain the need. I don't know if they just lease out the buildings and be in charge of just the infrastructure or something but I'd rather have charter schools or private companies that have the freedom to use a curriculum that works best based on the needs of their students rather than having one generic standard for all schools and trying to push them towards that.

 

[Jhoon]

they're pretty dumb

 

[ExodusNirvana]

It's all about the quality of the school and the effort of the parents. If one is lacking the child will suffer.

Kid with good parents but shytty school? Child suffers.

Kid with shytty parents in a good school? Child suffers.

I went to public school and I turned out more than alright. And my HS is now pumping out Yale and Stanford and Vassar undergrads like clockwork.

 

[Crakface]

I was the product of a Charter school education in Philly. They've been here since the mid-90s. They are a mixed bag, some good some bad...I see very little difference from traditional schools in my experience. My school wasn't that good...the biggest change was you weren't subject to random acts of violent/disruptive/criminal behavior..the school I came from prior someone got arrested everyday...and quite honestly I could have very easily went down that route, despite being from a relatively stable background by comparison.

Curious to see how my school fairs now...the demo. has changed significantly; 30-40% white now, where it was 95% black before.

Well look at that. Charter schools pop up and the neighborhood started turning white why is that.

 

[theworldismine13]

That's an extremely simple-minded (and naive) way of thinking.

There's not going to be a point at any time in the near future where all or most black kids attend charter schools. Most black students (and students in general) are going to attend public schools, so If public schools suck then they need to be fixed. Anything else is just a band-aid and not addressing the real problem. Any stuff about closing down all public schools is just ideological stuff that'll never happen.

That's not even going into the lack of evidence that charter schools are consistently better.

its already happening in new orleans
New Orleans goes all in on charter schools. Is it showing the way? - CSMonitor.com

for blacks students charter schools are consistently better, the studies showing little difference are studies that compare charter schools generally across all populations including whites, but for black kids charter schools show that they are better

 

[Danie84]

From the outside looking in, I thought charter schools was a positive alternative to the negative of public schools

 

[theworldismine13]

I was the product of a Charter school education in Philly. They've been here since the mid-90s. They are a mixed bag, some good some bad...I see very little difference from traditional schools in my experience. My school wasn't that good...the biggest change was you weren't subject to random acts of violent/disruptive/criminal behavior..the school I came from prior someone got arrested everyday...and quite honestly I could have very easily went down that route, despite being from a relatively stable background by comparison.

Curious to see how my school fairs now...the demo. has changed significantly; 30-40% white now, where it was 95% black before.

hold up, that is quite a big difference

 

[theworldismine13]

Charter schools are no solution. Some of them are great some of them suck, just like public schools.

They are ALL subject to the same problems. Education as a whole needs to be fixed, doesn't matter what you call the schools.

says the man whose kids are in charter schools

 

[Mr. Somebody]

says the man whose kids are in charter schools

Maybe he made a mistake and listened to you.

Ultimately if you arent doing your job as a parent the school isnt going to make much of a difference. There is little a charter school can teach a child that a parent cant teach the child on their own but its understandable that because of responsibilities parents have a hands off approach to parenting and let other people decide what is best for their seed to understand, friend.

 

[DEAD7]

they're pretty dumb

You have to admit, govt. is doing a piss poor job with education...

 

[Vandelay]

Well look at that. Charter schools pop up and the neighborhood started turning white why is that.

hold up, that is quite a big difference

I graduated damn near 12 years ago though...the area was kind of a white area already (Broad and South Street).

But Philly is definitely gentrifying...especially my neighborhood.

 

[Jhoon]

You have to admit, govt. is doing a piss poor job with education...

they are doing a poor job because thats their job. Their job is to create a nation of boobs. Dead, youre a fukking idiot.

 

[DEAD7]

they are doing a poor job because thats their job. Their job is to create a nation of boobs. Dead, youre a fukking idiot.

I guess I am, cause that made no sense.