Carrie, Dayton

As a public school teacher, I’ve seen both successful and unsuccessful charter schools. There are a few in my area that are great. Students go there and never come back to public schools because they really are specialty centers for children with unique needs. One school in my area specializes in autism and ADHD and several of my former students have gone there through high school and went on to college after benefiting from being at a school that understood their needs.

However, there are some charter schools in my area that I dread seeing on a student’s history. The students are below grade level and have been working on a curriculum that isn’t challenging them. I get IEP’s from some charter schools that are so badly written and so inappropriate that they need immediately fixed! Depends on the school.

Some work, some don’t, and accountability is needed to close the ones that don’t work and continue the ones that do!