Day Charter schools can be hellholes too

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No Oversight, More Child Abuse: The Labrew Case Two Years Later, School Matter blog and "Children were getting their arms bent as far up their backs as they could go", The Daily Kos

The program did have a datasheet on the wiki for some time but at least we can update it now because it is closed.

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As the Charter School movement evolves, individual schools seem to be segregating into two camps:

1.) seemingly progressive with a unique focus not served by the community (e.g., having music or a particular foreign language as an obligatory part of the school-wide curriculum, focus on a particular learning disability, etc.); these schools would appear to be few and far in between; and

2.) a conservative backlash against inadequacies presented by the current malaise of the traditional public school system, often cropping up in inner-city school districts crushed by poverty; this latter type would appear to represent the

majority of U.S. charter schools.[/list]

You should check out what Hyde Schools is doing with their public charter schools. In addition to the proselytizing Hyde School "character development" charade, they are now introducing elements of the Hoffman Quadrinity Process -- a known LGAT -- into their public school curriculum. They are also marketing their expertise in presenting this curriculum to other public schools not already within their domain.

See also:

• the HYDE FOUNDATION: bringing LGATs into Public Schools
• Joey brings the Hoffman Quadrinity Process to Hyde

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From Jim Horn's most excellent blog Schools Matter:

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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2007
Why Some Folks Love Charter Schools

Since there is no reliable evidence to show that charter schools generate equal or higher test scores than regular public schools, there must be important social and economic reasons that some folks, who would otherwise not leave a child behind in a school turning out such scores if it were a public school, see charters schools as the final solution for children who have no choice in the school choice advocates' choosing for them. Here is my list of reasons that some folks love charter schools:

1) Charter schools put decision-making and control in the hands of unelected executives.

2) Charter schools are cheaper because they reduce teacher salaries, health benefits, and retirement.

3) Charter schools make it easier to segregate schools based on race, economics, gender, and ability.

4) Charter schools allow for dumping of problem students whose behaviors are deemed inappropriate.

5) Charter schools reduce teacher professionalism and job security, making them cheaper and easier to replace.

6) Charter schools allow for the imposition of schedules, curriculums, and behavioral control techniques that are not subject to public scrutiny.

7) Charter schools require minimal public investment in building and transportation infrastructure.

Charter schools make for easier to hide the problems of the poor and those living in poverty.

9) Charter schools (not for profit types) allow corporations to reap tax benefits for providing financial help.

10) Charter schools (for profit types) expand business opportunities for the education-industrial complex.

11) Charter schools make it possible to take the state tax dollars saved from the imposition of urban charters and use that money to enrich suburban public schools.

...read on in that blog post HERE...