Accademic Success

One of the big ideas that everyone says in favor of Charter Schools is that they improve student academic achievement over traditional public schools. I was running through the National Education Association’s (NEA) website and found lots of information to the contrary look at some of the things I found

➢ Charter schools that were part of the local school district had significantly higher scores than charter schools that served as their own district.

➢ Students taught by certified teachers had roughly comparable scores whether they attended charter schools or traditional public schools, but the scores of students taught by uncertified teachers in charter schools were significantly lower than those of charter school students with certified teachers.

➢ Students taught by teachers with at least five years' experience outperformed students with less experienced teachers, regardless of the type of school attended, but charter school students with inexperienced teachers did significantly worse than students in traditional public schools with less experienced teachers. (The impact of this finding is compounded by the fact that charter schools are twice as likely as traditional public schools to employ inexperienced teachers.)

I’m sorry I would not want my child going to a school with uncertified teachers. I don’t understand how someone is allowed to teach someone else without having a degree. And even if I did send my child to a charter school and didn’t care weather or not she got a certified teacher or not I wouldn’t want her academics to suffer because of the teacher.