Charters Give Parents Choices

The charter school that I visit, Community Academy, is very similar to Peggy's school. The facilites are clean and the class sizes are small. However I have discovered that they have their own set of problems. When the school was started it was designed to have a bilingual program. But its third year, this current school year, the program has been canceled. I have been talking to the teacher that I help and she says that the school is losing most of their students because of the curriculum changes, and believes that the school will be closed soon because of the lack of students. Parents chose Community Academy for the education that it promised, and when the school decided to seriously alter their curriculum the parents have responded. As a parent of a student at a charter school this is their right, which hopefully will give their children the best education possible (at least in a perfect world right).