Charter Schools vs. Public Schools

[eric251982]

I am a teacher who completed my student-teaching internship at a great public school and was hired for my first job at a charter school. Words cannot express the difference between working for the public school system vs. a charter school. At the charter school I was working with all 23-25 year old first year teachers. Several of them were not certified. Now, at my new position I am working with veteran teachers who have taught for 15-25 years.

[HaleyC1231]

@eric251982 Yah, but, every chrter school is different. The public schools get so much fundings, that teachers want to work there because of the money. Charter schools barely get as much

[happinesson]

charter schools created competition within the public system that served to improve the quality of education for all children. Let the best school wins!

[rdsathene]

Charters are privately managed entities whose only claim to the word public is funding. Many courts have ruled they aren't "public entities."

9th Circuit US Court of Appeals (2010-01-04) ruled charter schools are NOT "public actors."

California Court of Appeals (2007-01-10) ruled charter-voucher schools are NOT "public agents."

Moreover, the US Census Department expressed difficulty in obtaining information from charter-voucher schools because the aren't public entities.

Neoliberalism.

[anthonytrombino]

Charter schools provide the opportunity for parents to build an alternative education to public schools. We focus too much on "failing" public schools as the reason for charter schools; the reason is "alternative".

Parents define failure differently since we all have different standards. Charter schools are another form of the free market and represent the ability to make a positive change where you see fit. If you do not think charter schools are needed, then keep your kid in the public sc

[RecallSnydersignby85]

Charter Schools can pick who attends their school, but perform worse than public schools and create more problems for the general public. CS have little accountability, make the charter owners rich while leaving the uncertified teachers paupers, and leave students uneducated. When a CS closes, students are sent back to Public Schools where they discover that they are 1 year or more behind their PS peers. Then these students fail a test and make the PS look bad.

[orangeporanges]

@RecallSnydersignby85 I went to a K-8 charter school for 7 years. In 8th grade I graduated with a small class of only 25 students, not one student in that graduating class had a final grade lower than a D. Most of us -including me- graduated with all A's. Everyone who has come into contact with this school has thought the students as respectful, witty and intelligent young adults and children. This school has probably done more things for their students than any other public school can provide.

[orangeporanges]

@RecallSnydersignby85 -continued- Although it is true that some charters may perform worse on tests than public, it cannot be denied that the teachers try their hardest for the students. I have been taught by remarkable teachers that I probably won't ever forget. You're making it seem like every kid who went to a charter school is an idiot. I take your comment offensively. I don't appreciate you judging ALL charter schools based probably on some statistic you read. I am in a public high school

[orangeporanges]

@RecallSnydersignby85 -continued- now and I love it. But I don't regret one second of being in a charter school. No I wasn't taught in a traditional way, but I am not just some idiot who's gonna drop out next month. I'm going to make something out of my life, and I learned this through the education at a charter school. I would recommend it for anyone

I am a 10th grader. please take this seriously and reconsider your opinion on charter schools.

[HaleyC1231]

@RecallSnydersignby85 Well, we don't perfom wors then the PS!!!!!! Actually, we perform 90% better on the MCAS then the public school. Every school is different. And if they aren't as smart, they are better people the reason why we may be 1 year behind is because we cover the subject thouroughly! We are not dumb. YOu probably ahvn't even been to a charter school so don't even try!

[sealie15]

Charter schools are a social experience on Black children.

[hookalakah]

"Randi Weingarten, powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers (1.4 million members), calls Mr. Obama the “education president.” However, when congressional Democrats recently doomed the Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor children in the District, the education president didn’t say a word.

Of the 1,700 students, starting in kindergarten, in this private-school voucher program, 90 percent are black and 9 percent are Hispanic." --Nat Hentoff, March 30, 2009

[vanessakach]

please leave charters alone. charter schools alone dot com

[vanessakach]

please charters alone. charter schools alone dot com

[CharterSchoolRadio]

Listen to Host "Coach" Dennis Snyder on Charter School Radio on wsradio.com and help support the Charter School Radio on Facebook!

[mikeboosh]

@MrJammer90 What are your sources on these republican donors? Democrats received more contributions from corps. than republicans in the last 3 election cycles. Right now in education, the only politically contributing special interest is the teachers union, period. Do you seriously believe a government-run restaurant, staffed by tenured union employees who helped elect the politician, would serve you better than the greedy businessman who competes with every other restaurant? GROW UP!

[idliketosay]

@mikeboosh it's people like you that promote ignorance and despicable-uneducated statements in this nation. freedom of speech great, but sometimes a painful reminder of what it breeds. still, i prefer it even if there are those like you who claim unsupported statements as FACTS!

[idliketosay]

@mikeboosh ...apologies mr boosh...comment was directed at guy above you...good day.

[MrJammer90]

Charter schools are a myth. Let those teachers teach in inner city schools with no parent involvement and see what happens to their test scores. Show me someone that thinks charters are great and I will show you someone that is hates public teachers and is ignorant.

[HaleyC1231]

@MrJammer90 I love charter schools. I go to one and i was proven smater then 99.9% of regular people in public schools in my grade. I loooooooooooooooooooooove my school

[r2sanche]

this lady is so stupid. has she ever taught at an inner city school?

[dangerousjo123]

can somebody in here show me some facts on how charter schools are failing please!! beacuse we all know that the public schools are failing

[MrJammer90]

@dangerousjo123 There are plenty...Just because you chose to ignore them does not mean they do not exist..Try doing a little research maybe you will learn something. You charter supporters are so blinded by your hatred for public education it is sickening. We had 3 fail in our district alone last year. I say let the charter schools work under the same conditions as public teachers and see what happens. Public schools don't "Cherry pick" their student body...Charters do! And that is a FACT!!!

[dangerousjo123]

@MrJammer90 were are u from for one and for two how many Public schools haved all around the usa do your research on that and keep in mind charter school are out numberd by Public schools 10 to 1 and if the Public schools are doing so well in your mind then tell me why has america fallen from 1st in math and science to 36th and those are facts

[idliketosay]

@dangerousjo123 ...Where in google did you ever read, or most likely HEAR (probably from watching some other douche hack it out on tv) that US fell from 1st in math/science to 36th. seriously. Learn how to educate yourself, and trust me, there are wrong and correct ways of doing it. 

[rightwingnutcake]

Charter schools are a fucking joke. Most of them fail spectacularly and cost the taxpayer a whole hell of a lot more money than public schools. But since I'm in the business of taking dumb fucking people's money, I more than welcome charter schools.

[AndroidPolitician]

According to the biggest study done of Charter schools yet by Stanford university, public schools win and they win by a lot.

46% were the same, 37% did worse and 17% did better then Charter schools.

It's no comparison, Public schools are better.

[Hogbeast6]

@AndroidPolitician This speaker is from Stanford.

[AndroidPolitician]

@Hogbeast6

The study I'm talking about was different from Hoxby's studies.

[psynema]

The unspoken problem with schools that no politician wants to touch

PARENTS SUCK

[rightwingnutcake]

@psynema Yup, you hit the nail spot on. I would also add the pervasive lionization of stupidity in the mass media.

[MrsRat2U]

@psynema I have to agree with you on that note!

[custodian52]

C,mon people just look at the corporations that have invested in the charter school movement. Wal- Mart, Microsoft, the Broad Foundation. They're the ones who have politicians in their pockets, and offer very little in terms of jobs and opportunities for American workers.

[rickster348]

NEA, TEACHER UNIONS = scammers.

[JsonicL]

Cynicism aside, charter schools offer an opportunity not afforded by normal public or private schools. It survives by a combination of private and public funding, so poor people can attend. Furthermore, it allows for more innovative forms of education. We now have public Montessori, Waldorf, Democratic Schools and more. There is a free market of ideas forming, and in the process the education sector is evolving beyond standards-based, data-weighted, value-added, industrial age thinking.

[JsonicL]

Funny how Americans are willing to vote out thousands of teachers, but not the corrupt politicians who produce inequality through policy. Parents will complain endlessly about a school that they haven't lifted a finger to help (and in a public school with no tuition). Others (usually white and employed) will get up on their soap-box and tell everyone how the public system has failed us; if only the private sector would come save these impoverished black ghetto-dwellers!

[dangerousjo123]

i think its pretty funny how some people are saying anything to put down something new like there are more failing charter schools like 1 to 2 so thats the reason why we shouldnt use them well tell me how many public schools are failing and cus of that should we drop them all no of course not everyone doesnt have mony 4 private schools but they can get into something just as good and that whould be a charter school and i must say some of you dump asses dont know what socialism is

[dangerousjo123]

i think its pretty funny how some people are saying anything to put down something new like there are more failing charter schools like 1 to 2 so thats the reason why we shouldnt use them well tell me how many public schools are failing and cus of that should we drop them all no of course not everyone doesnt have mony 4 private schools but they can get into something just as good and that whould be a charter school

[rightwingnutcake]

@dangerousjo123 I'm sorry, but the irony of a person who can ban barely grasp basic English grammar arguing for charter schools is hilarious to me. Go back to school and learn how to break up your paragraphs with punctuation, fucking moron.

[dangerousjo123]

@rightwingnutcake whats that you want to suck on my dick no u can't suck on my dick lol u loser

[LiamCareyBrown]

they have set up public shools to fail, so that charter schools can take over, which is all about brainwashing our children to socialism``--- i really wish people would wake up

[rightwingnutcake]

@LiamCareyBrown Are you serious? A socialist would support public schools since they draw their funds from the PUBLIC, hence PUBLIC SCHOOL, dipshit. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, why do I have to LIVE around idiots like you.

[custodian52]

Charter schools have the intended effect of weakening unions and opening more of education to for-profit operators. Charters create a two track education system and the reality is that bad charter schools outnumber good ones by two to one.

[mowgly3000]

@custodian52 ..as opposed to bad public school outnumer good ones by 99% to 1%

[damianpodcast]

Do we allow some schools to 'fail' to accomplish their goals in order to allow others to succeed? That is the promise of charter schools. They do 'things' differently as they explore what works better. Some of those ideas work, and some don't. I have heard 20% of charter schools fail.

The other challenge is how to define 'succeed':

- all students pass a 'minimum standard',

- some exceed (get scholarships, or win competitions or test highest),

- highest cumulative score

-highest average score?

[Vastvisionist]

Check out:"The Investors’ Club: How the University of California Regents Spin Public Money into Private Profit" & "Richard Blum:The Man Behind California’s “Developing Economy” You won't get full story from main media funded by private profiteers.No doubt these guys have the fed. govt. in their back pocket to avert anyone protesting fee hikes.As usual, they'll plant a few professional vandals in the crowd to get feds to come out &crush dissent of Corp. take over.It's rich vs poor Pre-K - PhD!

[mikeboosh]

@amartinek01 where are these so-called politically connected privatizers? A far larger lobby is the teachers unions. They own these politicians. And how does privatization "steal" money. When the public school stinks, the parent takes their voucher to the private one. The profit motive serves the interests of the customer far better. Imagine if our restaurants were run by politicians and staffed by tenured unions workers, need I say more?

[fastblondie99]

go collegium!!! cougars r beast!!!

[Vastvisionist]

"it's more about how rich or poor the neighborhood around the school is that decides how well the school performs." As far as public schools go, yes! Question is: if a school bond measure is passed or extended for a public school, & it turns into a private/charter school; do bond funds still go to the private entity even though it's no longer public? Is this what happened in Michigan? What a scam!

[CenisientaThe805]

I hate public schools son todos pura ++++++ they're an asshole uhm sorry for the bad words but i really hate this people why? because .......

[kirbyman1kanden7pf]

yeah sure, let's help the hedge fund managers get even richer, more charter schools....

don't be stupid it's more about how rich or poor the neighborhood around the school is that decides how well the school performs.

[gliath888]

Tax payers who send their kids to private schools should not have to pay for public schools. it is such BS that they have too. they are already paying for their kids education which is way more then taxes, then they have to pay the government for not sending their kids to public schools who's rates of having high incidents, violence, lack of order, and poor curriculum is a poor choice for genuine education. And before anyone says private schools is for the rich, that is not the case.

[FASSY524]

Nova Seattle is the best alternative, We use love, respect and mutual acceptance.

[Vastvisionist]

"When the benefits are focused on a special interest and costs dispersed to all, we all lose" Public schools are failing because of curriculum & LACK of funds! Public sys is currently being undermined by elites as they funnel $ into their pockets & take over! It's a large scheme designed to create an even wider gap between wealthy & poor (slowly dissolving the mid-class)! Richard Blum & Diane Feinstein are involved in privatizing public higher education. Education is just a piece of their $ pie!

[mikeboosh]

Does anyone seriously think the government should run our restaurants and hotels? The reason the abomination of public education exists is due to one simple reason. The political donations of the teachers unions. They don't want to live in reality like the rest of us where we have to earn our job every due under the threat of termination. The public is sadly apathetic to the issue and misinformed. When the benefits are focused on a special interest and costs dispersed to all, we all lose

[mikeboosh]

@Elin48 The objective of the free market system is to ensure man's right to life, liberty, and property. Each member of the system achieves their own rational self-interest by serving other's best interest. The "selfish" surgeons and businessmen serve the public's best interest far better than the gov since they must earn your money, they can't steal it with a gun like the gov. Socialists do not believe in rights, just "end" results, thats why they failed economically and committed atrocities.

[ot4kidz]

Great let's see some changes.

[Vastvisionist]

Race To The Top(a basic re-authorization of No Child Left…)is a huge promoter of private profiteer charter schools! Parents try to protect their children by keeping U.S. military out of public schools. What do you think will happen in private schools with private profiteer militarism such as Black Water/Xe Services?Obama Admin. is now recruiting for so called SERVICE starting at middle school age!Military video games,drones, Microsoft/B.Gates,Apple.Piece it together&protect your children!

[lastlilt]

I am sorry. Who is this lady? professor of economics? be a teacher than talk.

[cosmicviewer477]

The concept of charter schools is simply a bandaid solution to a deeper problem. Also, I can't help but feel that, as she mentioned, it is a thin edge of the wedge to move us closer to corporate control. Soon, teachers will have to say, "This portion of our class today is brought to you by Walmart" before beginning their lessons. Charter schools just seem like the fast train corporate-controlled public schools. That makes me feel very uncomfortable.

[ohohmrbill1]

Charters schools are designed to steal from the public. Look up charter school scandals. Also the oppurtunity for other problems. Look up Gulen Charter Schools. That in itself is enough to raise the hair on your necks.

[sirellyn]

@ohohmrbill1 No they are not. There are some bad apples like everywhere. But by large they are much better than public schools. Some post secondary schools are a scam, someone mentioned the woman getting a 70k game designer degree and it being worthless. I got a degree at another GD school and got a dream job at one of the top game companies.

A couple bad does not equal all bad.

[ohohmrbill1]

@sirellyn If you ever get the chance to google search. Go to charterschoolscandels.

and charterschoolwatchdog. Do a google search for Gulen Charter School and see what happens. Read those articles and then decide for yourself. If you are concerned then pass the word to other parents as to what to look out for in your community. Not all charters are bad. But the ones mentioned in my opinion are very very dangerous!

[sirellyn]

@ohohmrbill1 I'm glad you are calling attention to the bad ones. They need to be put down, and people should know how bad they are.

On charterschoolscandals I've noticed a number of the ones on there are in trouble from financial troubles. Well they get shut down. If only the same were true with 100% of the public schools. I haven't even heard of a public school that costs less than what is allotted to it in tax money.

[KagomeChic]

I go to a charter school, in my opinion it is the best way of getting your education... I am spending my summer in a public summer school, and the mosre time I spend in there, the more I feel smart (compared to the people around me). The charter school is definitly the way to go

[TenThingsYourChild]

Interesting comments that institutions, politics, and lack of incentives may be at the heart of the problem in our public schools.

[artdrawsyou]

Home schooling and co-ops are great as parents have control.What about families that can’t afford to stay home with their children, or are unable to join a co-op?We’ll have more unemployment without the public system.We need to protect the rights of the children,& keep large corporations like Microsoft,Google,Apple, etc.from corrupting young minds.Bill Gates funds cloud seeding projects that manipulate our weather.Is this ethical? Rich richer & poor poorer, serfdom at age 4 is heading backward!

[SuperGuitarman69]

I am for charter schools and in particular I am a champion of government giving a tax credit in the same amount that is spent in public school to the family that homeschools. Homeschooling is by far the best. Down with the NEA first then next? Do my plan

[artdrawsyou]

Politically powerful unions are American Federation of Teachers & Nat’l Education Assoc.(NEA is largest union in U.S.).The systematic destruction of public schools so that education privateers & politicians can rule is criminal!Corporate markets are incapable of protecting people & nature.Health care& terms of employment risks have shifted from Corporations & Government to people who cannot bear the brunt.Social protection provided by unions is an important part of social & community relations.

[sfldd]

Charter school proponents will say this is not true, but basically charter schools are schools that take the best behaved students. If the charter school does accidently accept a child that doesn't want to behave, he/she will be put back in the public school, BUT the charter school will still keep the money it received from the taxpayers.

[Fluffypear]

@sfldd You've never actually been to a normally-functioning charter school, have you?

[HolyTrinity777]

Basically in a nut shell public schools are funded by the government, while charter schools are funded by a private party sort of like a business.

[HolyTrinity777]

Charter school's suck. Sure getting credits is easy along with the high school diploma. but universities don't prefer them. Ask any university

[natemate49080]

this is the first person from CA that did not sound like a complete f888 head! gwet rid of the unions

[artdrawsyou]

Agree with multismartass1. Do parents really know the school curriculum? Especially in the public sector, their text books are written by robber barrons at expensive private colleges! Children used to be raised to learn the family business, the earnings stayed home, & it also stayed local. Schools should teach about the history of children. How did the sanctioned institution of school get started, why? Public schools are now ripe & ready for corporate takeover. What will happen to the children?

[PubLickSkooL]

i be not dum i smart.

[pattycake101ful]

220 days would be horrible

[pattycake101ful]

don't call me dumb but i never really heard of charter schools i go to a public school

[cheech5102]

I got to Mueller Charter School in Chula Vista, I've been there since Kindergarden and now I am in my last year here (8th grade).

I never knew that Charter School teachers have a better relationship with their students because of class sizes, I thought they were always that way.

I do like my school cuz they take us to L.A. for the week to visit the college campuses

[ohohmrbill1]

nOTHNIG iLLEGAL?? Google : gulen charter school.

Sonoran science academy hidden agenda.

Gulen salt lake tribune.

Turkish charter school.

Yes some of these schools are dangerous and rob the tax payers of money and donations.

[00Denkou0Taka00]

I go to a charter school and this year it had the 79th best scores in the nation.

[KikyoChanXD]

Ohh, I get it now. The whole concept was just confusing to me. x3

Thanks to all who replied. :P

[KikyoChanXD]

I... don't mean to sound like an idiot, but I've been searching all over the internet and I still do not understand what a Charter School is..

...is it a Private school or something?

*sigh*

[TombaFanatic]

I believe it is a privately owned public school....not entirely sure on that though. I view it as a school that's free to go to, yet they're free to make their own rules (including whether they admit everyone or not).

Like this video says, they are all different. I know the one I go to works with a college, allows me to get 2 years of college in so I graduate with both a high school and an associates degree. Needless to say, I love it, where RealHipHopTunes seems to have hated his school.

[STLEO1]

@KikyoChanXD  it is basically for the upper class kids not poor

[oublair]

its a public school... its like a alternative school for children but the problem is the suck the money from the local district to pay for the students in the charter school... and some of the charter schools are for-profit!!

[majinspy]

@KikyoChanXD It is basically a private school run with public money, but NOT administrated like a public school was. The money would come from the government, but it would a lot less oversight from the government.

[00Denkou0Taka00]

I go to cda charter academy, and it is public. There are no real requirements or anything. reply if you have anymore questions. Another thing, I've been to normal schools and my charter school, and I will testify that my Charter school is better.

[RealHipHopTunes]

charter schools are hell, i can tell from my experience as a charter high school student that charter school in new york is all about their stupid school politics

[buddha6175]

Actually Harvey1954, Pennsylvania doesn't have the most charter schools of any state. That distinction goes to California. And Philly doesn't have the most charter schools of any city.

Some charters work and some don't. The key is find out what is working, not to bash charter schools(or regular public schools for that matter). Charters may be skimming the smarter kids. Why should they have to suffer in a sh*tty school because adults think that it's unfair?

[mikeboosh]

unions and politicians hate a free market system, it continually outperforms, b they need heir campaign donations from unions to get elected.

[Elin48]

@mikeboosh What would you say is the objective the free market system?

[amartinek01]

@mikeboosh The reality is that public schools and public school teachers would embrace these reforms. The problem is that politically connected privatizers are lining their pockets in the name of serving children. The problem is, they do this by stealing resources away from the traditional public schools which are slowly being starved to death. We are undermining the multitudes of children in neighborhood schools to pay for the few who are selected to attend charter schools.

[MrJammer90]

@mikeboosh complete rubbish! Charter schools steal all the great students from public schools to make themselves look good. It is all eye candy. Also, What unions give in donations is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the billions and billions of dollars donated by corrupt businesses such as health care, tobacco, and oil to their Republican minions. Get your facts straight you got it all backwards!

[InCircle9]

damn Nazi

[358Liberty]

Privatize it all that's what's going to happen eventually

[harvey1954]

To say charters are like public schools is nonsense. Public schools have no screening process ala charters (no 14 page applications, lotteries, etc.) Charter would be just like the public schools if they ran them all. It's only by filtering out problem children that charters can make any progress. If that's the ticket for success then why isn't america letting public schools do the same?

[angryisthenewpretty]

Harvey1954, you are incorrect. My public school system does indeed have a lottery. My district's charter school takes kids on a first come, first served basis. In my district it is the opposite of what you describe.

[harvey1954]

So you're saying all your public schools have lotteries to get in? Not just magnets? Also, are you saying that you only have one charter school in your district? In Philadelphia they have the most charters of any state and they all have some way of screening potential problem students. We see the same troublemakers year after year leave for charters only to have them return within the year. Based on what you say your school district (which is what one?) is the rare exception to the rule.

[iodizedseasalt]

charter schools are also run and subsidized by individuals and corporations who indoctrinate students to their thinking. They train workers for their companies  students become little corporate worker bees do your research

[iodizedseasalt]

Charter schools in the Detroit area score no better than traditional public schools.` Charter schools can set their own standards for passing students. Teachers are paid poorly and have no job security pay their own insurance you get what you pay for crap

[boundleadtheblind]

charter schools have a smaller student base compared to public schools. of course a child in a charter school will get more attention because there are less students in each school. public school test scores get diluted by students with poorer GPA's compared to a charter school with a student body of lets say 25 kids. all of whom have high GPA's. to be fair take the top (however many) GPA's and compare those.

[MultiSmartass1]

@boundleadtheblind Good points. Charter schools are gifts to the middle class in order to get people with money to keep their kids from heading to private schools. Also, all schools are built for indoctrinational purposes-regardless of public, charter or private. The essence is turn kids into the next generation of workers (private) or professionals (private) and learn passivity and obediance to the state.

[scenesonn]

@boundleadtheblind

While the idea is well-intentioned, I doubt that would be a representative -- or even useful -- figure as to the overall efficacy of an institution. On the same anecdote you mentioned (regarding charter schools and their lack of "grade dilution"), you could also say that a measure solely of the top students would grossly overestimate the academic performance of public schools because they have a larger pool of students to draw from. Statistically, oh, fuck the char limit.

[gonzo361]

2003 charter school graduate

[lawrencefollower]

Education reform begins with abolishing public school. Check Abolish Public School. com

[jhg3]

I think if public schools have to compete with charter schools then they will straighten up and perform better.

[TrampSnip3r]

shut up my charter school in london is shit

[jennincali]

I actually think charter schools are outstanding!. I am attending one at the moment, which I do not regret doing,,,Many Public schools better step it up because they are just getting worse and worse as time goes by.

[HappyCaramel]

"an inner city population of kids of whom 93% are poor...." that statistic alone makes me wonder about the pros and cons of Charter Schools.

[beautifuldayx0]

I go to a charter school - Foxborough Regional Charter School in Foxborough, MA, if anyone's interested - and I think sending me there is the best decision my parents have ever made.

[Epitimbria]

My Grandson goes to your school.....Public Schools need to step up or they will go the way of the dinosaur

[beautifuldayx0]

Really? Haha, that's kind of exciting. I've been there since kindergarten, the first year the school opened - and I agree, the public schools do need to step it up.

[l31101210]

hchs we are the nights!!

[Zonafia]

i'm at least switching to a different private school next year. i'm allowed to do that. it's absolutely terrible here. this, of course, is the opinion of just one kid at a backwood country private school, though i assume this comment applies for a few private schools. maybe a different private school will be better. hope and pray for me that it is.

-zonafia

[Zonafia]

i go to a private school and it's absolutely terrible. they're small which is supposed to be a pro. but kids get into small groups and if you don't fit in with 3 different types of groups then you're not going to have any friends. =/ i don't. they're the sports group, generic teenage boys, and sickningly nice kids. as in they're still quoting finding nemo and love puns. there are a few normal kids there, but unfortunately none in my class,but most are just hallmark kids. brainwashed to happiness

[Zonafia]

i used to have one friend but she went to a public school last year and i've been on my own since. actually there were a few normal kids but they left that place as soon as they got the chance. class goes so slow. there's no challange. i didn't care before because i had someone to talk to. maybe the education is better i can't compare i've never been to a public school. but i feel like i hardly ever actually learn anything in a private school, most of the time the teacher is just rephrasing.

[Obelisk18]

same here with my charter school. The teacher and the teacher's aide is very caring and all, but its not the place for a teen to be. My charter used to have 9 people, 4 including myself were kinda fun to be around, but they all left except for me. So now I'm alone and lonely. Everyone's anti social. I miss being in 20+ ppl class rooms with 5 or 6 different classes. I miss seeing hot girls everyday.

[Zonafia]

also there are no electives. the only language there is spanish (it takes 2 years to get through 1 textbook) and only the first year of spanish is required (and the teacher goes through half of the textbook) while 2 years of a language are required in a public school. if a student just learns half of a spanish 1 textbook then what's the point. that small amount of spanish is useless anyway. the requirements are so low.bible class and chapel replace electives (i go to a christian school)

[Zonafia]

i feel like i go to church more than school. almost every square inch of the school is carpeted. the kids act like elderly people filing in for their last service before they drop dead. it's kind of stupid and i sound like i want attention.. but i cry myself to sleep quite alot. my mom said i could try a public school for 1 year even those she's afraid of 'them drugs' but, i knew it was going to happen, she changed her mind and said no. that was the only way i was getting through this year.

[akm5176]

I'm not even going to read ll this crap you wrote. I'll just say, your education is probally terrible because you can't be concise, and this video isn't talking about private school. Go away.

[MikeyMcCrashCap]

Public schools are like public toilets. They've both gone to shit.

[davidjradich]

@MikeyMcCrashCap They are only as good as the parents and students that they have to deal with.

[Elin48]

@MikeyMcCrashCap and how would you know this?

[juicygirlzrule]

i go 2 a private skul but lyk public skuls r lyk just as good!! :D

[juniorbridesmate]

i go to a charter school. and they're pretty good to go to! they have good education.

[tephinnie]

In a telephone interview, the Harvard researcher acknowledged that she had used misleading data to measure the proficiency of public school students in the District, resulting in an unfair comparison with the charters. She attributed the mix-up to the difficulty of downloading data from different Web sites. New data provided by Hoxby showed a 7.4 percent advantage for the charter schools in math proficiency rather than a 40 percent advantage.

[baseballnolie34]

Having studied charter school propaganda in Chicago, I really doubt she wasn't aware of the differences.

In addition, you've got to make sure they're selecting kids randomly and comparing apples to apples. In most cases, charters don't take the kids with behavioral or family problems, often taking a self-selected group instead.

So when someone says the population is "underprivileged" or "poverty-stricken" at a charter school, turn on your bullshit meter and ask some serious questions.

[omegacjm]

Actually, that's referred to as "creaming" and as public schools, charters are not allowed to do that. Access to charter schools is determined on a first come first served basis. And the numbers really do show that charters serve a higher percentage of minority and disadvantaged students than traditional public schools.

[EasyEs]

In Canada private schools have to take under privilege kids from poor schools if funding is provided by the government. They have shown time and time again to preform better.

[IreneK97]

this sucks

[tremaynephillips]

chater skolls rule excpellisaly cics wrightwood

[legendy2j]

wow your language is fucked up.