Jackson Jambalaya

Must be the new MAEP-type math...if all the schools in a district (East Tallahatchie)are each ranked lower, how can the aggregate or median of the district be labeled successful?

How much gobbledy good can you speak?

Eager parents hope for their offspring to become accepted into the few successful charter schools available in New Orleans, for instance. They join in a highly anticipated entry selection process for their school-age young ones via a lottery. Hundreds of disappointed parents shuffle away, after the results are revealed, to continue the search for their children's educational needs.

The state already has a charter school in Merigold. The name is Hayes Cooper. It was very successful in an area surrounded by subpar districts when I lived there a few years ago.

So, you take the best students out of a district and put them in charter schools, and leave behind the rest. How is that advantageous to the majority of a district? Won't that lower the overall GPA of high schools, and also eventually take away all the best teachers?

Who said anything about taking the best students? Try again.

Obviously, 642's parents would have benefitted from having charter schools available.

Mississippi talking about Charter Schools is like a village in Zimbabwe trying to recruit NASCAR.

KF,the process to get a child into the selection process is time consuming and the forms are not easily tackled.

As a result, it may not be the brightest students in charter schools, but it's the brightest parents and grandparents going through the process. Or, an interested adult helps the parents as they wish to champion a child with promise. As a result, it's a brighter, more disciplined group of students.

We expect teachers to deal with students with serious disciplinary and emotional problems now. Once those kids were expelled. We expect teachers to deal with students who cannot speak English. We expect teachers deal with students with learning disabilities. And,all those students are going to be " mainstreamed" into one class with average and above average students.

And, since women now can have better paying jobs, our best female students aren't going into teaching. Those who do want to teach often burn out in the public system or go to the private schools initially as that is a place they can actually " teach" the subject or age group they enjoy teaching.

I lived in a place and time where integration didn't affect the public school system as the state didn't have many people of other races. The " bad" kids got sent to private boarding schools. But, the public schools in that community have deteriorated because parents think they know more about education than the teachers and because of political interference.

I lived in a time when " knowledge was power" . Now, it seems parents fear their children might learn how to think for themselves. Oddly, most all of us turned out fine and even though we may have questioned our parents " beliefs" and even rejected some of them, most of us have respected and cared for our parents because they wanted us to learn more and be more.

PS At my age, apparently it's hard to prove I'm not a robot. Must be time for catarac surgery!

Why not just take away the restrictions(no student left behind, no discipline, no accountability, everyone has a right to be there)at the public schools and then there is no need for the charter schools. If a kid or parent can't go by the rules, kick them out!

Most charter schools test for admission, so doesn't that take out the best students?

My nephew in Shreveport tested and gained admittance to the public charter school. How is Mississippi going to be different?

As a result, it may not be the brightest students in charter schools, but it's the brightest parents and grandparents going through the process. Or, an interested adult helps the parents as they wish to champion a child with promise. As a result, it's a brighter, more disciplined group of students.

Come again? How does your premise prove that the students are brighter and more disciplined?

Now, it seems parents fear their children might learn how to think for themselves.

Bullshit.

"The funds within the current school funding formula, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, would follow students to their schools of choice." I bet that sentence got some attention. Good idea.

Are the public school kids that want to learn still being "beat up" by their thug peers ?

If I remember correctly, those kid's that desired
knowledge was equated with trying to be "white" .

Looks like the Parents for Crappy Schools want to make sure Charter Schools are modeled after the public schools. Exclude the working middle class from any benefit and waste the money on "disadvantaged" districts. "Disadvantaged" as defined by some nameless faceless unelected bureaucrat.