tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post5558280597236590343..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Maryland Disappoints ChartersPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-15174450940185666392015-05-01T10:47:20.554-04:002015-05-01T10:47:20.554-04:00Patsy, Congrats. But your sample size is pretty ...Patsy, Congrats. But your sample size is pretty tiny. I teach in a regular old public school that receives lots of new students who used to be in charters every year. Every student we receive is well-behaved. None of them are academically up to speed. We have never received an awesome student from a charter. So is it fair to say that the charters either:<br />A. Don't produce great students; or<br />B. Purge the most struggling.<br /><br />See, my anecdotal evidence is far different from yours. But it's true.<br /><br />So when you say "I am here to tell you they do NOT cherry pick students", well, they do. Just maybe not yours specifically.lateralushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870256979297807637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-61868469996121784932015-04-16T22:52:23.103-04:002015-04-16T22:52:23.103-04:00My grandson is in the top charter school in the co...My grandson is in the top charter school in the country. I am here to tell you they do NOT cherry pick students. He was held back one year and was in special ed through 4th grade. In 5th grade he couldn't write a sentence. A paragraph? Forget about it. Math was just as bad. He was in lala land but well behaved. I have no idea why his 5th grade teacher made him one of five that he picked for Pruess School. He got a D in home room the first semester because he couldn't keep his book bag organized as required. He struggled but finally got it together. He was almost required to go to Saturday school because his grades were not up to par. He has pulled it off though, he is a junior and has a 4.3 GPA and is at the top of his class. The same principal has been there since the school started, Scott Barton, he is fabulous. So from where I sit the regular public grade school he was in was really bad, and it was mostly white kids in an upper middle class neighborhood. I have three others in a different magnet school in San Diego and they are not getting good education either. Their school is also in an upper, upper middle class neighborhood with mostly white kids. Thank the lord one was picked for Pruess next year. So I don't think ALL charters are as you describe. Frankly I think most kids will learn to the level they are taught and the standards never go up, only down. Is Pruess the lone ranger?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04136691140360981219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-73752261827334164752015-04-15T10:00:13.428-04:002015-04-15T10:00:13.428-04:00Yay for Maryland, land of my birth!Yay for Maryland, land of my birth!Martha Tothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612277632250703909noreply@blogger.com