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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
The difference is you are guaranteed to be offered a spot in a public school, and typically that spot will be at the one most geographically adjacent to you.
You will not be guaranteed a spot in a charter school as admission requirements go beyond geography.
As someone mentioned earlier, this creates two tiers in a sense, and a failure mode of this system is all of the stronger students getting siphoned off into charter schools, and public schools are left to deal with the more difficult students without the funding model reflecting the reality that those students take far more resources.
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Charter schools are public schools. You are guaranteed a spot in a public school. If you want to go to your cachement school you're guaranteed a spot. If you want to go to a charter or a regular school outside your cachement you might get in, you might not, but you will never end up without a school, so I think that part of the argument doesn't hold water.
I agree with concern about skimming stronger/easier students. Ideally there would be charter schools that cater to higher needs students to help offset that. I have no idea if that is the case.