Did you read the comment you're responding to? I said they were wrong sometimes, specifically in regards to merit pay. I said that, in black and white, right

Did you read the comment you're responding to? I said they were wrong sometimes, specifically in regards to merit pay. I said that, in black and white, right there on the page. Or gray, because it's being downmodded because people who don't like the implications of it. Anyways, yeah. Charter schools. Whole other bag of worms. I like them in theory, in practice the way they're funded usually tends to be crooked -- quick example, in the town I was a Selectman in, a charter school started up. It cost us about 7k/year to educate a student, round numbers. Cost the charter school, say, 9k. Every student that left us for the charter school, 9k was taken from our budget and assigned to theirs. To add insult to injury, we actually had to pay to bus the kids there on top of it, plus additional unitemized strains on the police budget, etc. That's not exactly kosher.