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You're wrong. Charter schools do NOT get to select, at least not in Minnesota (and states that allow selectiveness are being dumb). You are right, though, in t
by beat 13y ago
You're wrong. Charter schools do NOT get to select, at least not in Minnesota (and states that allow selectiveness are being dumb).
You are right, though, in that you're starting with a pool of students whose parents care enough to look for something better and take an active role in their children's education. You might have a problem with that. If so, I suggest you read Harrison Bergeron.
- DannoHung 13y agoSo if a kid grows up in an abusive home, fuck him forever because his parents don't give a shit.
- beat 13y agoI grew up in an abusive home with parents who didn't give a shit. So did a lot of successful people.
- MisterBastahrd 13y agoYour anecdote doesn't prove your point.
- beat 13y agoIt does, however, disprove yours. edit: More to the point... if I could have attended the fine charter my kids attended, I would have had a better trajectory overall. But more important than the schooling was my innate talent and determination. I'm way over on the nature end of the nature-vs-nurture scale. Bad families and bad schools make the success formula more difficult for kids, but not impossible.
- MisterBastahrd 13y agoApparently not, given that I did not make a point.
- sageikosa 13y agoI didn't read it was trying to prove a point except to counter someone else's generalization by providing a specific counter-case.
- matt_brushlabs 13y agoHopefully not, but a charter can't forcibly compel an abusive parent to send his/her child there. You'd hope that wasn't the case, but ever since the Founding Fathers flipped their shit over taxation without representation, we've built a country that favors the ambitious and fortunate 94 percent of the time.