Based on personal experience, these are probably the students that private and charter schools (rightly) reject. The students don’t care, nor do the parents. I teach in a small, urban public high school. I’m teaching third generation welfare recipients. Their grandmas and moms have lived on our bounty, and they know that they will also. Why study or try to do well? Why go to a private or charter school that’s just going to kick you out?
At the same time, in Ohio we have a new teacher evaluation system. It’s a joke. It’s too much trouble for the school system to deal with an ineffective teacher, so they just get ranked artificially high. Sigh.
The one distinctive factor in a student’s attendance at a private or charter school is a parent who makes the effort to send him there.
Let’s give as many children who won’t be kicked out an opportunity to attend a private/charter school.
We should begin the process of privatizing K-12 schooling. Vouchers, tax credits, charters, On-line schooling, homeschooling, and neighborhood dame schools could begin the process of building the private infrastructure.
I am realistic. A fully privatized system with charity educating the poorest is likely not possible but the goal should always be moving toward Complete Separation of School and State.