Charter School Debate

In this week’s journal, I am going to talk about an interesting topic. That topic is about charter school. I have heard about charter school before. However, I did not enough or sufficient information about charter school. Last week, I was driving home and listening to NPR radio station program “Here & Now”. I was lucky to hear the debate about charter school. I really liked the discussion and enjoyed the debate. So, I am going to summarize the discussion and write about what I have learned from listening to that discussion. The title of the debate was “A Closer Look at the Debate Over Charter School”. The moderator “Jeremy Hobson” discussed the topic with two experts in the subject. The first is Michelle Rhee who managed Washington’s public …show more content…
However, the moderators asked very interesting questions that helped to learn more about charter school system. For instance, this question “Do you think that charter schools doing more harm than good in the educational system” motivated the first speaker (Kevin) to talk about the good things and bad things about charter schools. But, more importantly, it motivated him to say that the important question to ask should be “What we can learn from them and how can charter schools works within a healthy system that include all schools?”. His answer to the question indicated that there are many things that could improve charter school such as improvement in the area of accessibility, accountability, transparency and finding a method to make them work much better within the educational system. I liked his answer and I think that accessibility and accountability is important issues that involve public schools and charter schools. Another interesting question indicated that some charter can pick or choose their students. The second speaker (Michelle) indicated that this is an issue and some of the parents had problem with accessibility to some of the best charter schools. She indicated that some of the parents are placed in waiting list or given the chance to be placed in a lottery in hope to be selected to enroll in charter school. She mentioned that there are other problems with charter schools that include not following regulation, or adhere to regulation that help children with special