Charter Schools: The Ugly Truth: Corruption, Lousy Instruction, Worse Test Scores and Padded Cells

|  Imagine your five-year old boy went to a school where he was occasionally thrown in a padded cell and detained alone for stretches as long as 20 minute
Or you sent your kid to an elementary school where the children are made to sit on a bare floor in the classroom for days before they can “earn” their desks.

Or your kid went to a school where she spent hours parked in a cubicle in front of a computer with a poorly trained teacher who has to monitor more than 100 other students.
Maybe you don’t have children or send them to private school? So how do you feel when you find out the local school that you pay for with your taxes is operating a scam that diverted millions of dollars through fake Medicaid billing?
Or the school used your tax dollars as “grants” to start up other profit-making enterprises ... or pay lavish salaries — $300,000, $400,000 or more — to its administrators ... or support a movement linked to a reclusive Turkish cleric being investigated for bribery and corruption.
Welcome to the world of charter schools.

Charter schools are sold as an answer. With awful discipline and shocking scandals, many really cause new problems. ...His conclusion? “It’s time to put the brakes on charter expansion and refocus public policy on providing excellent public schools for all.”


http://www.alternet.org/education/truth-about-charter-schools-padded-cells-corruption-lousy-instruction-and-worse-results?akid=11397.294211.2AInEM&rd=1&src=newsletter946090&t=13

The actual academic results of these schools seems to hardly anyone, despite report after report showing that these schools tend to do poorly on state and national tests and fail at providing equitable education to underserved students.