Yes.
A charter school is a publicly funded private school. The parents choose to send their children because of the education they are given there.
They are strict, the kids have a dress code and much is expected of them. They parents have a choice to send the kids there and most who do, WANT to follow the rules.
Most parents with kids in the school would agree that this kid should be tossed. When I was a charter school parent, I knew that if I didn’t follow the rules, there were 20 kids waiting to take my daughter’s place. No joke.
I don't understand the publicly funded private school concept. Why are charter schools created? And do the parents still have to pay?
Your definition of a Charter School is right on the money. It is a different environment for sure...if a student/parent does not abide by the rules (notice that the kids in this school also were uniforms) you get tossed. No pun intended, but there are many schools of thought that the discipline of a strictly enforced dress/hair/jewelry code ‘focuses’ the children on their tasks. Due to the discipline (and the parents at home installing the since of discipline/respect for the education being received) Charter School kids tend to test alot higher than their contemporaries in the standard public school classroom. And...you are right...the mom pulling this little guy out of the Charter program openned up a spot for some lucky kid on a waiting list. Hope the mom learns from this (but from her tone—as quoted—I don’t think she will).