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Originally Posted by Botten
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Charter
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Private
All a waste in my option if we put the money into our public schools it would have a much larger yield of education and a bigger push for safety (with more allocated money). Let the money go into Colleges and University if they want to specialize.
Had a pollster once ask me do you think tax payer money should be use on opening more specialize and chartered schools. When I said no she had a fit saying public schools have gone to garbage.
I told her the money should then go to the public schools to fix that.
Don't even think she recorded my vote and hung up the phone.
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I'd agree with this to some extent. However, I think just throwing money at a problem is a bit of a cop out. What exactly is the problem defined, what is the money going to go towards specifically, and are there ways to correct the problem that don't cost money? Those would be my questions
I think charter and private schools should exist as options for parents who want to be able to be able to have more choice in their kid's schooling, and can't homeschool due to logistics (have to work, etc)
I also think there should be more
BOARDING SCHOOLS. Let me say from working in mental health with problem kids and teens for 14 years, attendance is a huge issue for many families, becoming more of an issue every year, and some things the schools are doing would surprise most people
I don't think most people realize that even though a kid not legally allowed to drop out of school until age 16, they can essentially outsmart the entire system by just still completely refusing to go to school pre-16. Become dead weight so your parent can't drag you, ignore their consequences in home (all they can do is take all your stuff away, and many parents are too soft to even do this), and the school will do jack shit to help the parent. I mean literally nothing. In addition to this, to meet their quota of graduates, the school will push kids on to the next grade who are failing ALL their classes, kids who have missed 30+ days of school in a single semester. I'm not kidding, schools do nothing to help parents who have a kid refusing to go to school and they care not one iota that a kid is not getting educated. All they care about is that their numbers fall within an acceptable range
So the legal system steps in. A parent will be charged a misdemeanor charge if their child under the age of 16 has missed a certain number of school days without a valid medical reason. That parent will be given a court date and then, possibly, the judge will create a deferment program. I don't know how this always plays out, but one would hope the parent is eventually given the option to send their child to a boarding school. For kids with extreme defiant behaviors, the ONLY way you are going to get them to be educated is to make them live and sleep at their school
Oh and kids in specialized public school classrooms for having an IEP due to ED (emotional disabilities, NOT learning disabilities) are often not being educated. They are being essentially babysat. These kids are often just babysat all day and pushed onto the next grade due to quotas, to eventually become non-functional adults
I might be jaded because I see only the worst kids all day at work, but attendance /truancy to me seems to be a big problem that schools seem to give zero shits about
Oh and being allowed to drop out at 16 sucks. I never ever mention this to kids I see at work, don't even want to put that idea in their head