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The Education System Is Fucking Segregation
Many studies show that charters enroll a disproportionately small share of students who are english language learners or who have disabilities, as compared with their home district. A survey of expulsion rates in the district of columbia found that the charters, which enrol nearly half of the student population of the district, expel large numbers of children. The charter's expulsion rate 72 times expulsion rate in public schools. When public students leave for charters, the budget of the public school shrinks, leaving them less able to provide a quality education to the vast majority of students. It's fucking segregation dressed up as mixing the education system by removing black and white kids from each ther and then defunding the schools that