Charter Schools

[whell]

Public schools in Detroit are a disaster. It's should be mandatory for every family in Detroit to be given the option of sending their children to the school of their choice - public, private, charter, home school, whatever.

These schools are screwed up now, but the state can't close them until 2018, if it can close them at all. Meanwhile, the parents who can't afford to send their kids somewhere else are stuck sending their kids to schools that are failing. That's wrong. Its not a red, blue, right, left issue. Its simply unconscionable that any parent should be forced to send their kids to a failing school.

Meanwhile, 11 former Detroit public school principals (and counting) have been convicted for stealing from the school system and the students.

Its disgusting, its wrong. If "choice" is a good thing, it should also apply to parent's choice of how their children are educated.