How Some Elite Charter Schools Reinforce Racial Segregation

[Frodo]

Weren't charter schools (and school vouchers) intended to help African Americans and other minorities trapped in failing public schools?

How some elite charter schools exclude minorities

Emmanuel Felton, The Hechinger Report

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[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

My best friend did his master's thesis on charter schools and none of this is surprising to me.

[junior chįmp]

That's the whole point of charter schools

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

Weren't charter schools (and school vouchers) intended to help African Americans and other minorities trapped in failing public schools?

No, but that's how they were sold to a particular type of gullible liberal.

[courts]

Weren't charter schools (and school vouchers) intended to help African Americans and other minorities trapped in failing public schools?

No, but that's how they were sold to a particular type of gullible liberal.

and some people want to be fooled

[dead0man]

So, less than 1% of school districts?  It's good that it's so few, it will be easier to figure out  new rules to prevent this kind of thing.

[here2view]

Charter schools are garbage.

[NerdyBohemian]

Charter schools are garbage.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Cory Booker is fine with this.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

[here2view]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Charter schools are garbage.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Between reforming charter schools to mitigate this effect and creating authoritarian new policies that effectively deny an appropriate education to top-performing students, why am I not surprised to see so many people support the latter?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

     Between reforming charter schools to mitigate this effect and creating authoritarian new policies that effectively deny an appropriate education to top-performing students, why am I not surprised to see so many people support the latter?

So top-performing students = white, I see how it is. Throw me in the "ban charter schools" train.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Between reforming charter schools to mitigate this effect and creating authoritarian new policies that effectively deny an appropriate education to top-performing students, why am I not surprised to see so many people support the latter?

So top-performing students = white, I see how it is. Throw me in the "ban charter schools" train.

     I never said that; don't put words in my mouth. Top-performing students of all colors merit a quality education that challenges them academically and facilitates their intellectual growth. With a handful of exceptions, this is not feasible in American public schools without a major overhaul of the system.

[Politician]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

Or we could make every single public school a charter-ish school. There are genuine merits to delegating increased autonomy and permitting increased specialization in schools, but public-charter hybrid systems seem inherently inequitable.

[Associate Justice PiT]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

Or we could make every single public school a charter-ish school. There are genuine merits to delegating increased autonomy and permitting increased specialization in schools, but public-charter hybrid systems seem inherently inequitable.

     This would at least do something good, as opposed to just forcing all children into the public school system, which may as well be a cartoon supervillain plot in terms of plausibility and practicality.

[Classic Conservative]

We need a complete ban on public schools.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

We need a complete ban on public schools.

Or at least reverse the trend for people to consider it as an acceptable option. My children will never be entering such an abysmal learning environment. Single-sex, uniforms and tradition only.

[here2view]

We need a complete ban on public schools.

Or at least reverse the trend for people to consider it as an acceptable option. My children will never be entering such an abysmal learning environment. Single-sex, uniforms and tradition only.

I taught at a single-sex, uniformed, Catholic school, so I have experience with both after being a student in a public school. I would still prefer public schools.

[Karpatsky]

We need a complete ban on public schools.

Or at least reverse the trend for people to consider it as an acceptable option. My children will never be entering such an abysmal learning environment. Single-sex, uniforms and tradition only.

Be careful with your intentions; such environments tend to give a 50/50 shot of producing the worst kinds of degenerates as well.

[Lord Admirale]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

That's an awful idea; in 5th grade I was stuck in such a toxic environment my parents pulled me out and sent me to Catholic school, and it really helped me emotionally.

[Badger]

We need a total ban on all alternatives to Public Schools.

Or we could make every single public school a charter-ish school. There are genuine merits to delegating increased autonomy and permitting increased specialization in schools, but public-charter hybrid systems seem inherently inequitable.