re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

Might not be true in Arizona but in Chicago I believe that public charter schools are open to everyone who lives in the neighborhood.

Charter schools are open to everyone here, but the schools have the ability to basically kick anyone out who is a “problem.” So kids with an IEP plan, kids who aren’t cis, kids who have undiagnosed issues (like I was, back in the 1960s and 70s), anyone who doesn’t fit in, they find a way to get rid of them, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.

I had a terrible public school experience in large part because I was an undiagnosed high functioning autistic kid with a very bad grasp of social cues (among other things). But I am flat out opposed to charter schools because they’re used as culture war academies on the taxpayers’ dime. At least kids today are getting diagnosed and getting help, but not at charter schools.