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Re: [Phys-L] Private schools

I explained how this is handled in my posting. Please reread it. This charter is public - not private. Discipline is handled the same way it is in the rest of the school system.

bob at PC

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Maybe you think this doesn't happen there in Rhode Island, but where else do they go? Here, and in most other places I know of they go back to their sending school or neighborhood school where they would have gone if they never entered the lottery in the first place. So, where do they go in RI? In limbo? Disappeared? They have to go somewhere... unless they get bounced into a disciplinary school which is essentially a district school for the worst cases.



Every year we would receive (usually at the end of each report card period) about a dozen such students who were expelled from the local parochial schools or private schools. When I retired, charters were just getting started so most of them took only elementary children. Our elementary schools would receive back some of those who couldn't make it in the charter.

So, tell me... if they don't get put back into their local schools where else do they go in Rhode Island?
On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:18 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

Do you make this up as you go along? Our college has a partnership with a local charter and two people from my department have been on the board. Once a student is in, he's in. The student can be booted out of school (suspended) for disruptive behavior, but cannot be booted to another school in the district.

Bob at PC

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That is a misnomer... the lottery is composed of those students whose parents were interested enough to enter the lottery in the first place. Of those, the retention is selective to those who obey the rules. They have kicked out students who disobey or whose parents do not attend meetings and conferences. Then they go back to the lottery non-winners to choose the next one.

On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:56 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:



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On 07/09/2012 06:47 AM, Jeff Bigler wrote:

As I occasionally say to my students, "Where's That From?"--acronym
intended.

ROTFL here. That's a keeper.

I'm finding that,
compared with the charter school, my public-school students ........

I realize it is conventional to speak of charter schools as being disjoint from
the public schools, but one could argue for the following taxonomy
instead:

schools
/ \
/ \
/ \
publicly private
funded & \
tested \
/ \ \
/ \ \
/ \ \
district charter truly
public public private
schools schools schools

(see also below)

As always, I don't want to argue about the terminology, and I would be
delighted if somebody could suggest some better terminology, but the
underlying point remains: I find it helpful to distinguish charter schools from
_district_ schools (rather than from "public" schools).
*) In some ways, the charter schools are unlike the district schools,
for instance in having more selective admissions and selective
retention. This is an important distinction; however ...


[LaMontagne, Bob]
Depends where you live. Our charter schools in RI admit students by lottery.
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