What's the Deal with Charter Schools?

A look at Harlem Success Academy, a charter school in Harlem, New York. John Stossel investigates the effect of the school and why parents want so desperately to send their children there.

From:
Stossel - "Imprisoning Kids" (2010-02-18)

Category:

News & Politics

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• education
• Stossel
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• charter schools
• public schools
• private schools
• government
• monopoly
• school vouchers
• voucher program
• free to choose
• milton friedman
• libertarian
• free market
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• parents
• children
• doe
• department of education
• protest
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• unions
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• choice

[jpzxcvbnm]

If everyone, or almost everyone, is paying taxes, then why shouldn't parents have the choice to go to the school of their choosing?

[WideWorldOfWisdom]

@jpzxcvbnm

That's a really great question to ask all those protesters and teacher union members.

[Rbascomb]

Charter Schools=Government Subsidized Private Schools

Public Primary and Secondary Education should not have a selectivity requirement all children should have acess to a basic education it is the foundation of our democracy. Public Colleges and Universities are the more appropriate time to start being selective. During adulthood.

Corporations just want to suck more money out of the public tax base using kids education!!!

Just fix the public schools and stop playing political charades.

[WideWorldOfWisdom]

Rbascomb: "all children should have acess [sic] to a basic education it is the foundation of our democracy."

Where do you even get this sort of nonsense? Please show me how in the world one could be led to believe that some guaranteed service is "the foundation" of the United States.

P.S.

1) The United States is a republic. Not a democracy.

2) The foundation of this country is quite actually the exact opposite of saying ANYONE should be guaranteed ANYTHING other than individual liberty.

[SuperGuitarman69]

End Public Education NOW!

[derek8171]

Public Ed sucks, but the private option could be just as bad. People need to make sure they don't put their kids in corporate hack schools where they skew numbers and standards. None the less, public education is next oh so awful.

[tehatemachine]

@HaleyC1231 It's not that. It's just that in some areas parents don't have a choice.

[HaleyC1231]

@jpzxcvbnm most parents would choose public schools because they believe the lies that go around about them

[garmian]

@jpzxcvbnm Because you and all the people who think that the taxpayers money is yours are being delusional. Once you pay your taxes, that money is no longer yours. it becomes the government's money. Why do you think that rich people fight taxes or open a foundation? That way they can control their money. Also, if it was still your money like you claim, they will ask you how you want that money spent of a referendum.

[XtacyInsanity]

i think that education is dropping in the U.S because the public educational system is setting lower and lower standards throughout the course of the upcoming years. Whereas say, Harlem is successful because of the dedication and slightly stricter curriculum the students must follow rather than the lenient public school systems where a teacher is either afraid or to "nice" to address to the class clown who constantly disrupts the class and nobody learns at the end of the day.

[kevinus2710]

@WideWorldOfWisdom agree, because there is a high demand for such charter schools. If these kinda charter schools didn't do well, the consumers will abandon this school from their choices. Ppl use their own money wisely, not the govt, they put their hands into our pocket and spend them carelessly- Game Theory of using money.

[CharterSchoolRadio]

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

[nidhidhian]

All Students in this school want to learn because their parents or granparents seem interested in their learning. This separation from lazy or uninterested parents' children provides a good environment for these children to learn.

Public schools however must teach everyone, whether they come in disciplined and wanting to learn or indisciplined . Troubled situations at home cause serious social and emotional problems early on in some children. A few like that can make it hard for the rest.