New York Charter Schools: Bad Behavior and Out. Where are the Special Ed Students? Where are the ELL students?
This is an excerpt from a New Yorker article on Success Charter Network represented in the documentaryWaiting for Superman.
“…when the schools are vexed by behavioral problems: “They don’t provide the counseling these kids need.”If students are deemed bad “fits” and theirparents refuse to move them, the staffer says, the administration “makes it a nightmare” with repeated suspensions and midday summonses. After a 5-year-old was suspended for two days for allegedly running out of the building, the child’s mother says the school began calling her every day “saying he’s doing this, he’s doing that. Maybe they’re just trying to get rid of me and my child, but I’m not going to give them that satisfaction.”
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