re: #151 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

The article says there are two parallel systems.

There are different types of charter schools, I mentioned that in my earlier comment, though I don’t know what the differences are.

Some types of charter schools are allowed to have more restrictive admissions policies than others. Bottom line though - in New Orleans, some sort of charter school is open to every one.

Do I think it’s a good thing to have these charter schools operating as the New Orleans Public School System? Hell, I don’t know, really I don’t.

I don’t know how having some charter schools with more restrictive admissions policies is any different than the “magnet schools” in the public school system - these are the better schools, lots of applicants, not all get in.

I’m not a big fan of the “magnet school” concept for public school systems. If you have a good public school system, there is no need whatsoever for “magnet” schools. There were no such schools when I was going to school in the 60’s and early 70’s. We were just all thrown together, and did just fine.

Obdi - you can go through and nit-pick everything, that’s fine, but I’m not sure I will have the time, or knowledge, to respond to everything. I just know that many of the comments I saw in this thread were goofy as hell and had no relation to reality and so I thought I would provide some information.