Nationwide Crime Wave

Offering parents the choice of charter schools instead of inner-city public schools is better than no choice at all. The reason I suggested vouchered boarding schools for the least fortunate is the common argument against vouchers is that as long as the kids are in a crappy environment with irresponsible parents they are not going to succeed in public or charter schools.

My idea takes the most at risk completely out of that environment. For many that would be the best way out of the slums and into a productive life. It's worth a shot anyway. It's better than spending $15,000 a year for 10-12 years...ending up with an illiterate drop out...and then spending another 20K a year to keep that kid incarcerated or impoverished for the rest of his likely short adult life.

Here's one. Impoverished women under 30...Get a $3500 check or a free year of college for every year they don't have a baby. Hey...It's cheaper than her bringing an unwanted, unaffordable baby into the world...a lot cheaper....probably cheaper than just the delivery.

Quit giving these freeloading, baby producing leeches anything. I am tired of supporting these "people" with my tax dollars.

Boilerman vocablulary 101 "Anti police stance" : prosecuting cops accussed of murdering unarmed suspects.


---unless its a racist, white bigot in Nevada. Then its ok to blast law enforcement for even unholstering their guns:
Boilerman's anti-police rant about cops showing their guns at the Bundy Ranch
"I believe that I've seen one officer in my entire life pull his gun. This was at the Golden Nugget, interestingly enough.

The unusual thing at Bundy's ranch wasn't the fact that cops had guns, but the fact they they literally took an agressive stance. That they pulled and pointed their guns. That they implied potential deathly ramifications."

Some of the top performing public schools in NYC are charter schools; some of which are located in the worst neighborhoods.

Provide a safe environment where learning is encourages and an expectation to succeed and children will learn

Wait, are you really saying that schools that pick and choose the very best students with the most motivated parents actually get higher test scores??????

Wow! - how do you think they do that?

"Wait, are you really saying that schools that pick and choose the very best students with the most motivated parents actually get higher test scores??????"

As usual forky is wrong. Student at NYC charter schools are chosen by lottery. Anybody can apply & students are accepted covering the full range of aptitude.

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Any child eligible for admission to a public district school is eligible for admission to a public charter school.

Admission to a charter school cannot be limited on the basis of disability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion, ancestry, intellectual ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, or athletic ability.

If the number of applicants for a charter school exceeds the number of available seats, a random selection process, such as a lottery, must be used.
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Ref: schools.nyc.gov

And then they expel kids at double the rate of regular public schools. And they end up with better behaved students and, amazingly enough, higher test scores. Pure genius, huh? Oh, and families that apply months in advance for charter schools are a very different population than the apathetic ones that don't give a shit, aren't they?

But for the dim bulbs who think that correlation is causation, this just in: Kids who ride to school in luxury cars get higher test scores than those who ride the bus. It must be the leather, right?

[No reference, . . .as usual - DD]

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Schools say suspensions maintain order, keep children safe, and allow teachers to focus on instruction by removing the most distracting students. Strict discipline has long been a cornerstone of the charter-school movement, and supporters argue that those policies have led to better academic outcomes for a majority of their students.
“Many families are flocking to charter schools, and one reason is that they believe in stricter discipline,” said Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy, whose nine schools in 2011-12 suspended 17 percent of their students at least once. “Having some kids miss a day of instruction here and there for a suspension is far outweighed by the benefits of learning in an orderly environment all of the other days, as our academic results prove.”
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Ref: ny.chalkbeat.org

Perhaps if the "regular public schools" expelled/suspended more violators their students would also demonstrate better behavior and higher test scores. Those not suspended would get a better education.