Btw here if you did the 13y school system, you can study. The end. No more tests or anything needed. No sorting process at all, for around half the study courses. You just sign in.
The other half is dependant on your average grade of your last school certificate.
But that’s it. No other restrictions.
Fair
I basically strongarmed my disctrict into covering three classes for free each semester instead of just the standard one because my high school was laughably bad, offered no apchem, calcphys, or calc / diff, which i needed to take then
(i tend to be ignorant and say false things about multiple matters due to not caring at all of learning about them / resentment at their existence. this is one of them, apologies)
i have zero experience with decent charter
every charter group im im familiar with has both torpedoed hopes of public school improvement at every turn and been a laughably terrible educational experience for students
Yes ur school def doesnt deserve the insults / ignorance. But the vast majority do.
So 
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charter schools are public schools
not being part of school districts doesn’t make them not public
also 90 percent of the time when people talk about charter schools Unfairly Hurting The “Real” Public Schools what they mean is ‘students are no longer forced to go to public schools that are aggressively failing to meet their educational needs and so switch to other schools, and said students are disproportionately likely to (a) be “gifted” and (b) have parents who care enough to try to change things’
and like
‘smart kids have an obligation to stay in schools that are badly failing to meet their needs so that their parents can maybe, in theory, convince those schools to suck slightly less’ is…not really a perspective that I think is reasonable
Again, i have no experience with this kind of reality
I went to high school in a city. I got to choose where I went, and i went to a place that was highly prestigous, selective, and hard to get into, but still public
Yes it’s a good point that charter schools are probably better and much more practical in suburban areas. I had not thought of that.
But that kind of reality is entirely foreign to me
And they really are hot garbage in cities.
I mean I arguably live/lived in a city
I guess we can debate whether or not Saint Paul is a city? it’s not a very central example of a city
Er megacity
I suppose maybe chicago is a special case. Or maybe LA / NY have it as well
But i sincerely doubt with that quote that your district offered any kind of exciting choice in terms of public high schools, for anyone, unlike mine
This not being a thing is very hard for me to wrap my head around
So forgive me for not being able to empathize
I got pretty lucky with high school tbh. Our city had 3 high schools and you went to a certain one based on where in the city you lived. I probably could’ve strongarmed by way into a different one, but I got to go to the best one anyway.
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