>There are people who go to Applebees and enjoy it, too. >Doesn't make it a good restaurant. Ah, good old fashioned snobbery. Never change, HN. >(There are, o

>There are people who go to Applebees and enjoy it, too. >Doesn't make it a good restaurant. Ah, good old fashioned snobbery. Never change, HN. >(There are, of course, likely to be some genuinely phenomenal charter schools. The article does cite stats for Michigan that say, on average, they're worse than average.) But in Michigan, charter schools tend to be concentrated in some of the poorest areas, right? That could explain some of it.