Jalen Rose's charter school is a flop its 1st year

[valet]

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A year inside Jalen Rose's Detroit charter school | City of Detroit | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Midday, the screeching sound echoing through the new school is the noise of students dragging chairs and tables from classrooms to the lunchroom, also known as the "cafenasium." That's the school's word for the 40-by-60-foot gym that doubles as a cafeteria.

The furniture is blue and yellow -- the school colors and those of the University of Michigan, where Rose was one of the "Fab 5" basketball players who made history as freshmen when they led U-M to the NCAA championship game in 1992.

Besides lacking a lunchroom, the school has no locker room or showers -- yet. The dance class met in a former office. Kids cleaned their science tools in the restrooms, leaving behind fetal pig parts, because the science room has no sinks.

The only sport at the school is basketball, and the team has no home games because the gym is too small.

In the summer, the heat was stifling. School was called off several days until portable air-conditioners could be installed

It get wore. Read the whole article.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Sounds to me like they tried to run before they could walk.
They should have kept the enrollment numbers small enough to fit the facility and the equipment and worked with those kids for a couple years before trying to branch out. That way they could have experiemted with different teaching models to see what worked and what did not.

 

[Alexander The Great]

Love that Jalen is trying to help out the community but Charter Schools are a terrible idea imo

 

[Real]

Classic nikka move: Great idea. Poor execution.

 

[Captain Crunch]

I can't knock it

 

[Alexander The Great]

He should've holla'd at Andre Agassi for an assist

 

[boskey]

How are the kids doing academically and socially tho? Just cuz the building is some shyt doesn't mean its a bad school to send kids to...

 

[valet]

How are the kids doing academically and socially tho? Just cuz the building is some shyt doesn't mean its a bad school to send kids to...

They tell it in the article....

 

[theworldismine13]

i read it, i dont see a flop, i see growing pains

 

[feelosofer]

i read it, i dont see a flop, i see growing pains

Agree. Charter schools take years to get going off the ground. It's going to be like this at least the first 5 years. Once you get other benefactors, full parental support and better teachers, as well as administration the school could be a big success.

 

[iamduval]

How much does it cost to build a school?

 

[Robbie3000]

He should've holla'd at Andre Agassi for an assist

He should holla at the Harlem Children's Zone charter school.

 

[Enzo]

it's too easy to open these

 

[tru_m.a.c]

it's too easy to open these

essentially thats what it looks like

bout to read the article

if there's proof that these errors would have been avoided with proper planning and execution, then its 100% the fault of the organizers and administration

 

[feelosofer]

it's too easy to open these

This is a failure of the federal gov't clearly the demand for alternate forms of education is outstripping the supply, but few if any charter schools, start successfully. His story is quite typical of every charter school started over the past 20 years.