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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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Exactly. Unless you're in an area with an aged-out population, there are no guarantees of admission to a school. But that's just the nature of demographics and isn't entirely the fault of the provincial government.
Not sure if there are charter schools that cater to higher-needs students, but there are definitely schools that accept a broader range of "coded" students... The schools that accomodate (accept) more codes tend to be more, um, difficult with worse outcomes, as the teachers are left to deal with 14 different types of problems / students, instead of say 5.