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So if I want my kids to be surrounded by other, smart(er) kids / kids with engaged parents, I should send them to charter schools?

• SolaceQuantum 8y ago
  It depends how much you weigh “Does the charter school actually teach my child better than a public school”(statistically, no, and they might even teach worse!) and also “do I care about exposing my child to people they’re different from”(ie. Avoiding them being stuck in a bubble) and also “am I unable to find another environment for intellectual pursuits”(clubs, extracurriculars, etc. when I was young there were definitely after-school schooling available for smart kids, and at school you can stay late for science teachers to teach you more science).
• mercutio2 8y ago
  An individual parent’s incentives do tend to point in this direction, if their metric for success as a parent doesn’t include being exposed to children whose family’s aren’t as successful. But when taken to an extreme, this leads to exclusive areas and excluded people.