Many traditional public schools send special ed kids to continuation schools every day. [View all]

This is a reply of mine posted to another thread.

Please note that I wrote "many". I am willing to amend it to read "some".

But what I observe on this board and in other fora, is that people tend to broadbrush charters and, alternatively, traditional public schools, and I maintain that it isn't fair and doesn't lead to productive dialogue.

To continue: Ttraditional public schools send special ed kids to continuation schools every day.

Continuation schools, alternative ed schools, what have you.

This idea that they don't is utter bullshit in many cases.

I spent four of my teaching years in a juvenile hall with long term incarcerants, most of whom has histories of expulsion from public schools and most of whom suffer from one form or another of what would be an eligible learning or emotional or cognitive disorder or condition.

Frakkin' big high schools, and middle and elementary, can't get them out of their classrooms fast enough.

This dumping on charters is really misplaced energy.

There are plenty of sins to go around all types of educational programs.

I think the broadbrushing, from either side of the question, hurts our students.