Personal attacks do not help in any way.

Hey, did you go to the same school as DZ, you sound like a supporter of that same old bs of good charter, bad public schools.

“Personal responsibility” What a joke. LAUSD needs to have its educators take “personal responsibility” for their performance as educators.

I am an educator. I just do not dance to the union song. I have seen charters with SPED populations in excess of 20%. The schools I have worked with DO NOT ASK ABOUT EL STATUS OR IEPS BEFORE THE CHILD IS REGISTERED. You are spouting a bunch of total falsehoods.

Here is another non-educator speaking with authority. NO, sir. They do discriminate. And it is how they discriminate that is so significant, such as issuing statements like “We do not have the resources to serve your English language learner, your emotionally disturbed child, your mentally retarded child, fill in the blank. They also can kick kids out.

Cut the empty rhetoric or stay off these boards.

We don’t use IQ tests anymore. Where have you been for the last 20 years? Any kid who is self-motivated can make it into a magnet. The key is self-motivation and the ability to stay on task.

B.S. Every magnet teacher I know goes above an beyond for their students and they are really teaching. The magnet kids at Fremont and other urban school don’t have the skills of the kids at Palos Verdes but they work their asses off with the help of their teachers.
Yours is just more slander against public school teachers. We don’t give up on kids but kids must take some responsibility. Charters in fact give up on kids all the time. That’s why there are lines around the blocks of public schools at certain times of the year. These are the kids coming back from charters that don’t want them.

Magnets are poor district design. What they do is take all the self motivated kids that would succeed of their own accord and shove them in one place.

I remember talking to a Coach/AP teacher from Palos Verdes. He taught his AP class by sitting on his butt reading ESPN.com while the kids did book work and crammed. They wanted to pass, so the school got high AP pass rates without him actually teaching. In an urban charter, that lets LOADS of kids access AP coursework, teachers work their butts off to get maybe a 20 or 30% AP pass rate.

Charters don’t give up on kids. The Magnet system does exactly that. Its sets the self motivated kids apart and leaves the rest like crabs in a barrel.

Charters take whoever walk through their doors until they reach capacity. The idea that charters “lock kids out” is a myth.

Yes, LAUSD segregates its students and uses a deterministic system “teacher recommendations” and IQ tests for “Gifted” kids to send some to “magnet” schools while the rest languish in subpar educational settings. That is NOT an equitable model. It totally throws most low income, urban kids under the bus.

Spot on and in fact many are 800 and above.

And in fact Fremont’s Magnet School (not my school) is designated as a high achieving magnet and they have regular public school teachers with a shorter day and union protections and yet 98% of their kids graduate and go on to college and I can guarantee you their attrition rate back to the regular school is far less than yours. What about the rest of Fremont’s students and other students in South LA? They haven’t figured out that success is a decision and personal responsibility is the key. Not charter schools. Personal responsibility.