[redbaiter]

You're not making sense. Why would a charter school, whose brand is basically that it isn't the gummint school, hire someone unfit to work in the gummint school?

[netmilsmom]

Some people listen to the propaganda of charters. They don't know anything but what people tell them. Charters have had problems, some have closed. But when one considers that charters CAN close if they are not doing their jobs, and district schools just keep pushing out uneducated children, it is a good thing.
Sounds like the other poster is just against any kind of school that has government control. Some may agree, but charters are a first step to improving schools all the way around. Vouchers would be better, but anything to improve the schools in our failing districts is good for all.
Thank you for making sense!

[jackd]

Because No Child Left Behind states that only certified teachers can work in public schools. The current classroom teachers who are too stupid to pass the certification tests go to the charter schools. ANYONE can teach in a charter school. They don't even have to possess a college degree. They do not have to be certified in the subject area that they are teaching. Nor are they even required to have taken courses on the subjects. In elementary schools (the ones' that teach reading) anyone 98.6 degrees can occupy a teaching position. (And if "netilsmon" is reading this don't give me the nonsense about, "well that's not true in Michigan." If it isn't send me a copy of the Michigan law that says this is not true.)With NO Child Left Behind, middle school and high school teachers have one year in which to get their accredidation and certification. In Maryland this has resulted in a massive exodus of these unqualified "teachers." Guess who is hiring them this Spring? Maryland colleges turned out less than 1% of the numbers of certified teachers needed to fill all of the teacher vacancies for the year '03-'04.