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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2013
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One of the funniest threads ever...
On 5/22/13 12:13 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:18 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
Years of the Bush Recession plus wasting public money on private charter
schools erodes the funds available for public schools.
I never understood how charter schools "waste money".
They actually spend a lot less per student than the public school
(they only get FTE) and usually get better results.
If a charter school fails, it gets closed. If a public school fails,
we just throw more money at it and hope it gets better. They seldom
do.because there is no fundamental change in how they do things and
incompetent people are still "fire proof".
I've read a lot of reports about charter schools. I'm not impressed for
a lot of reasons, including the facts that they tend to cherry pick
their students, they don't have to deal with "difficult" students, there
have been interesting shenanigans with standardized testing, they many
times are church-related, and they suck resources away from the public
schools.
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