Arguments Against Charter Schools

In the last few years there had been an aggressive rise in the number of charter schools around the nation. I have found myself in several vivid debates with my close family members about their choice to send their children to charter schools. A number of the parents suggesting the charter school system was just a better fit for their child the “extra time and individualized attention charter schools since they are so selective and have small class sizes is the ideal place for [their child] to get the help she/he needs.” (Pena) Charter schools are a publicly funded but privately run learning institutions. Many people have supported these schools such as celebrities like pitbull and government officials. But recently I've been seeing a rise

Charter schools, though funded with taxpayer dollars but are run privately. By law charter schools have to be non-for profit but the schools can hire an educational management company (emo) to run the school and these people can try to make a profit. One of the most famous example is “White Hat management that forced its associates to give the companie 95% of the schools government founding.” (Kasler) Our tax dollars are being gifted to this company considering they ran 32 of the lowest performing charter school schools in ohio. (LastWeekTonight) Some schools are so flawed that they don't make it through the year. In 2008 119 charter schools closed within its first year 14 of those schools didn't even make it through the school year. (Shuttered: Florida's failed charter schools) Leaving thousands of students without a school in the middle of the school year. While running a school like a business has a lot of problems in itself but a school closing displaces a large amount for students in the schools district and they end up being thrown back into the worst public schools in the district. This then affects the learning rate of the schools. Public schools can't just continue teaching a class that the student a year behind in and continue to teach at the same level as before. Leaving the 60% of kids that are black and Hispanic and every other race to fall in the cracks that the American education system has. So not only are they holding the curriculum back they are holding the other students in the school back. Or on the other hand the change can be scary for some children. Remember their first day of preschool for you or your child that day one of two things happened. Ether the child stayed fine without a problem or the child cried for either a few days or if you're like my little brother cried for months. Children need consistency a radial change in their environment could