I have a number of problems with charter schools:

1.They are de facto private schools in that they exclude students, but they get public funding, which is a unequal paradox. Brown v Board of Education covered this ground in 1955. A public school cannot exclude anyone except via zoning regulations in most areas that determine which school you can attend based on where you live, and possibly require those with special education needs (a/k/a, developmental problems, autism, etc) to attend what is usually a single school set aside just for those kids.

2.When you pull the brightest kids out of a school system and put them in separate schools funded by taxpayer dollars, you are giving preferential treatment to them and leaving behind the kids who don’t perform as well. This is exclusion and it’s wrong when tax dollars are involved. The kids who need schooling the most suffer.

3.When you allow people to pick & choose who will enter a school or any group, a single person, or a group of people are making decisions on other’s lives, and they can be manipulated and pressured into taking certain kids above others for no good reason other than they are part of the social circle. It’s an inequitable, but natural instinct for some morally corrupt & delusional people & groups to exclude others from their group to make themselves feel & look more important & distance themselves from others who don’t look, thing or act like they do. It’s all about control & power.

4. The Center for Public Education published a study showing that only 17% of charter schools performed better than public schools. 46% did no better or worse, and 37% performed worse. Therefore, 83% of charter schools exist simply to exclude others on some basis and ultimately for no purpose. Of the 17% that did perform better, than means 17% of public schools were “left behind” in favor of charter schools.

This list could go on and on and on . . .