An Atlanta charter school closes. Short funds, students.
Atlanta’s Tech High is closing. The charter school enrolled 200 students in grades 9 though 12, according to the state DOE
One persistent problem with charter high schools nationwide is that teens want a larger social pool and wider opportunities than many start-up charters can provide.
And the students want the fun stuff, the Friday night football games, the dances, the homecoming parades. It is tough to offer the social and extracurricular extras in schools with 50 kids or fewer per grade level.
Tech High could not draw enough students, partly because of its forsaken location on Memorial Drive. (A father recently told me that he took his child to visit the school, but turned around in