I'm going to try hard to keep this in "Why are charter schools demonized?" territory and out of "Should charter be schools demonized?" territory -------- shor

I'm going to try hard to keep this in "Why are charter schools demonized?" territory and out of "Should charter be schools demonized?" territory -------- short answer, is that a lot of them tend to be run by scammers trying to turn a buck -------- Long answer, is that education is actually a weird product, with a lot of information asymmetries baked in, and where a lot of time the quality people are actually hoping to buy is the signal around the product, instead of the product itself And the signal is often elusive if that's what you're actually hoping to buy