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That's a pretty good summary of the common anti-charter arguments. A few counter-arguments to the above: - Charter schools expand choice for low-income familie
by whack 8y ago
That's a pretty good summary of the common anti-charter arguments. A few counter-arguments to the above:
- Charter schools expand choice for low-income families. If your public school sucks and your family is doing well, you can always move elsewhere or go to private school. If you're from a poor family, charter schools are your only escape valve
- Maybe it's bad for the public school, but it's good for the high performing students themselves, who are no longer dragged down by disruptive/disengaged classmates.
- The vast majority of charter schools are non-profit. The people running and funding a charter school are just as motivated by good intentions, as those in public schools. They just happen to experiment with different approaches and methods, while giving students/parents the final say on where they want to go.
- Metrics can be gamed, but a complete lack of metrics can also be exploited by underperforming/incompetent/disengaged organizations. Tracking a reasonably good metric is better than tracking no metric at all - something seen in how most successful organizations operate.
- learc83 8y ago>The vast majority of charter schools are non-profit. According to this article [1], schools can technically be registered as a non-profit, but contract out day to day operations to a for-profit management company owned by the same people who run the non-profit. This setup allows the school to take in tax free donations, but it means that from a profit motive standpoint it's identical to a for-profit school. I have no idea how common this is, but it does mean that it's not quite as simple as saying that the vast majority are non-profit. 1. https://ourfuture.org/20170615/are-nonprofit-charter-schools-a-distinction-without-a-difference https://ourfuture.org/20170615/are-nonprofit-charter-schools...
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"Charter schools expand choice for low-income families." Only if charter schools are not permitted to pick and choose who attends. "Maybe it's bad for the public school, but it's good for the high performing students themselves, who are no longer dragged down by disruptive/disengaged classmates." This kinda boils down to "fuck you, I've got mine." It's why no one likes libertarians. "The vast majority of charter schools are non-profit." Citation needed. And a citation that they're actually non-profit, and not a non-profit in the same way the NFL is a non-profit. "They just happen to experiment with different approaches and methods, while giving students/parents the final say on where they want to go." Yeah, but many times those "experiments" have to do with just breaking unions.