Reply #11: Communities don't start all over

[sandnsea]

New Orleans is one of the rare ones. Failing schools sometimes start over, and I am all for that. Otherwise they mostly supplement the school district to provide alternatives to kids who aren't achieving in the traditional classroom. All kids are different and that's what charters are ideally designed for, to meet kids' needs where the kids are at. They really aren't equipped to ever take over a school district, they're only half of New Orleans district and that's much much larger than any other city. The key will be to correctly identify the keys to success and apply them to all schools. The charters, themselves, aren't magic just because they're charters.