By: A teacher

I have to respectfully disagree about both charter school articles. As a teacher who has worked in multiple state's public schools and at a charter, I can easily say that many liberally minded people are wrong to paint public schools as victims and charters as profit making shells. There are many things that need to be fixed in public schools (policies of arresting kids who make mistakes, racist funding, the inability to fire incompetent teachers). Charters (which receive less funding than public, do not get free buildings, etc) struggle because they must appear perfect to be considered as a replacement, and yet are set up to struggle so much that they often fail. Our education system is flawed, and is in need of an overhaul. Painting public and charter schools as enemies is misguided, and we should instead be wondering what we could do in our own communities to strengthen education as we know children are truly the future.