I am not sure how I feel about charter schools. The impression that I got from the episode is that anyone could open a charter school and any one could work at one. To me, this is unacceptable. A school could be opened with the wrong intentions in mind (profit). I understand that there are benefits to having a charter school because the school could save more money and therefore have the money available to buy more resources and materials for the students, but again the people who are either running the school or are just working at it might have the wrong intentions.
School Choice, on the other hand, I feel is a great idea and I feel that it should be available everywhere. If there is school choice offered and students leave a school for another, the board of the school that is losing students knows that they need to make a change to their schools. A school with a poor program or teachers will more than likely loose students and this is a signal that the school board must start evaluating their resources, their staff, and their techniques.
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