Flipping math on charters

In the Dec. 16 S-R editorial, you cite a 2013 study by Stanford University that showed “31 percent of charter schools performed worse then their public school counterparts” followed by your statement “That’s a lot of public dollars down the drain.”

Let’s flip that over. Sixty-nine percent of charter schools performed better than their public school counterparts. It appears to me that the money going to all these public schools is millions of public dollars down the drain compared to the small number the charter schools are spending.

Do the math the old way, not the Common Core method, and you see that 31 percent of the small number of charter schools versus the 69 percent of the large number of public schools translates into a huge difference in wasted tax dollars.

I also will bet the farm that it does not cost $12,000 to $14,000 a year to educate a child at a charter school.

Dale Magart

Deer Park