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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD
I agree, Charter schools can be great.
Keep in mind, though, a student in a charter school has opted to be there. Usually, parents must go with their children to sign up/enter the lottery for a charter school, thus the parent/family cares what is going on with that student.
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That's not always the case though. There are kids at this school who have been dumped by their families and thrown out by age 14 or 15. A couple have even been taken in by teachers.
But let's go back to your classroom.. you say you have 5 kids who are doomed to fail.. that means you have what..25 kids who are possibly going to succeed? Would you say that just about every teacher in your district is going to have similar results due to the kids coming from fairly similar backgrounds?
Assuming your classroom is composed of a fair cross section of the community, you, personally shouldn't be in trouble. Maybe the school, but as I recall, there are allowances for lower expectations of schools in certain areas.
At some point, there has to be a choice made between what's best for our students and what's best for our schools. I'm completely convinced that NCLB is great for our students and can be devastating and even unfair to some schools. In my mind though, the benefits definitely outweigh the costs.
I think it's really great that a quality education is now available to basically anyone who wants one... or is that bad?