As far as charters go, it's laughable. Just look at who supports them. Churches and billionaires. Churches like it because it's an easy money maker and allows them to indoctrinate. Rich people like them because it's an easy money maker, busts unions, and allows you to hire non-licensed teachers who are desperate to accept any job even without benefits.
Charters have proven to be disasters. And there's no way to fix that.
Look at Wisconsin, Florida, and Michigan to see how they e flopped. In most cases, showing as good or worse scores than the traditional public school. Just look at utah's school Grades and see how the majority of failing schools are charters.
https://datagateway.schools.utah.gov/Accountability/SchoolGrades/2016
Well, I should give you, Naos and JEJ some credit for some good points. Yes, my stand is rhetorical in some extreme for those who haven't spent any time thinking that way. When I was a kid I had some very good teachers in the public school system. One man, who was in his last year of teaching at age oh 65, who lived a block down the street from me and knew my family..... oh did I say "schoolteacher family", as in dozens of school teachers uncles aunts grandparents bros and sisters and cousings.... did a very great thing.
I don't think the system then would have approved, much less now. He lived next door to my fifth grade teacher but taught in another school. I was a failing student who did no homework, looked out the window all day, and maybe bothered some girls a little just being there. At least one gaggle of girls appointed themselves to come as a bunch and just tell me they thought I was stupid. I didn't care.
But these teachers conspired to do something about me. They moved me to Ken Cannon's sixth grade class for the next year. Ken Cannon the first day announced that I was a transfer and that I was a great student. He deliberately flattered me, and encouraged me saying I could be the best student in the class if I studied. He gave me a "special" desk where I could keep my books, and invited me to just stay there after school and read my assignments or whatever, just please make sure I locked the door when I left. He set quiz contests like a game show on every subject where he announced I was the likely winner because I was so smart and did my homework.
Well I fell for it. I won the contests and all the cute girls made eyes at me.
In the next year, Jr. High back then, the grade schools combined and whden the kids from the old school saw me come into the advanced placement classes, they laughed and called me both "stupid" and "lost".
One day the math teacher gave a big test, the class was having an obvious struggle with it. I was done in 15 minutes and didn't see the sense of sitting there. I took my test up to the teacher and turned it in, and left while some snickered.
OK, so with the results the teach announced that I had gotten a perfect score. Those poor old school kids protested with an accusation, saying I had been the first one done, too, inferring obviously that the class idiot had cheated.
Look, folks, public education should not be the glue of society. The government should not have a heavy thumb on public social conditioning. We don't need school teachers making political objectives important in their teaching. Our founders wanted to foster education, but they all had private, homeschool professional teachers if they could afford it. They knew the value of the basic skills and knew the backwoods folks wouldn't be able to afford to hire that kind. No way did they intend to establish a government charged with guiding citizens in matters of religion or statism of any kind.
The good people in the education system are huge influences for good in society, no doubt.
But the system is obsolete, and we can achieve all the positive results more effectively with technology sans a bunch of bureaucrats who imagine their political views should be standard.
