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Originally Posted by edslunch
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.
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It is not true that you are guaranteed a spot in your catchment school. They have botched this so bad that the catchment schools are full and lotteries to get in. If you lose the lottery you are shipped off somewhere else, so I guess you are guaranteed a spot but not in the catchment.