Kids need schools
This is awful - Salon is reporting that kids are being turned away from schools in New Orleans, that there is no school bus system, no special education accomodations, and with the charter schools, no more "neighborhood school". I had wondered how that was working - now that the schools are charters you have to apply to get in and if every school is full - too bad. You have no "default school". This is crazy. Not every kid can go to private school. We have an obligation as a society to provide schools for children to attend.
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They're gonna cherry pick students. They can't afford to fail again. The Charter system is just one more added filter to control the quality of students so the school will "look good". I don't think the system they're setting up is concerned with "every" kid. It's gonna be interesting to see how the chips fall, but I'm sure most of them will fall into the hands of private schools.
A few cherry picked schools could be a good thing, we already had a few magnets and I think of the charters as similar although I know its more complicated than that. But we HAVE to have a school for every child, and we can't be handing out a list of schools for parents to call one by one. There will be many more children trying to enroll in the fall and then need a better system than this.
I actually think this is more a function - still - of the number of schools open.
My understanding is that the schools are full. Overfull.
While I'm bothered in the short term by the lack of busing and special needs, I'm inclined to give the situation more time before drawing conclusions.
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