Poll: Idaho Charter School Freeze?

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  Transplanted_Texan on February 23 at 8:55 a.m.

  No.

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  Charlie on February 23 at 8:59 a.m.

  No.

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  scootermom on February 23 at 9:54 a.m.

  Yes.

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  DFO on February 23 at 10:00 a.m.

  For those who answered the poll question re: charter schools … can you explain your answer?

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  Joker on February 23 at 10:08 a.m.

  Charter Schools work. I think they are the direction public schools should be following.

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  moscow_minidoka on February 23 at 10:12 a.m.

  No. My wife and I had intended on home schooling our children because of our severe problems with the Prussian model of education that is widely practiced in this country. However, a new charter school in Moscow that touts experiential learning has us thinking about changing our stance on home schooling.

  I suppose that charter schools have a potential of undermining traditional public schools, but charter schools might also attract parents who otherwise would pull out of the system altogether.

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  idawa on February 23 at 10:25 a.m.

  I assume that the Idaho legislature is not allocating any more funds to education during these economic perilous times, so, doesn’t that mean that new charter schools in a time of budget cuts and freezes will invariably mean cuts to other public schools? So, by all means, create more pseudo-public/private schools that use public funds to siphon off the “best” students and leave the current school more impoverished than ever. The conservative agenda, destroying the meritocracy, one child at a time.

  All churlishness aside, I actually believe charter school are good. I think students should have a choice to choose focused education without all the trappings of a traditional school (expensive sports programs, etc). But, I’ve been disappointed to see that as Charters age they tend to want to start those programs and over time merely look more and more like traditional schools sans a Union presence. And, my support for the concept is starting to wane given recent studies showing that Charters haven’t been as effective as promised and that the funding just isn’t there. I think the idea of charter is good, I would just advocate the the concept need rethinking and retooling before granting more of them (especially in an era of budget cuts).

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  Charlie on February 23 at 10:56 a.m.

  No. Charter schools move at a different speed for the students. The average public school seems to go at the slowest students pace and sometimes creates a boring atmosphere for brighter students.
  There is more than one way to teach and we should not say that all teaching must be via public schools.

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  Bigguy on February 23 at 11:20 a.m.

  No. But why not just remove all the regulatory overburden that exists on the traditional public schools and allow them to act like charters? The way it is now, people are evaluating student success, etc. based upon two different sets of rules. If it is good for the charters why isn’t it good for the traditional also? Maybe the leveling of the playing field would allow traditional schools to experiment and change to the better also.

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  Bent on February 23 at 2:02 p.m.

  No. I’ve said it a thousand times on this blog. The Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy is a huge success. It should be cloned all over the state, and the country for that matter.

  The old siphoning-the-cream-of-the-crop argument has not played out in our local schools.

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