When WIll It END?!?

This is WRONG! And it makes me mad!

http://www.qrps.org/index.php?page=enrollment-program-details

 

All Quail Run cares about is getting funding ... note that students have to be enrolled through October 5, 2012 to redeem their rewards.  If you weren't aware, schools receieve their funding for the year based on children enrolled on October 1st.  Public Schools have to take children regardless of when they enroll, so any parent not happy with Quail Run on October 5th will be able to come back to their neighborhood public school and be educated all year for free.  They money will stay at Quail Run!  This is totally unethical to be advertising they need to stay through October 5th and shows the need to pass legislation regarding funding.  I'm not saying charter schools are bad, but I'm saying if you start the year there, you should have to commit and stay there the whole school year or let the money follow the student back to their neighborhood school.

 

Quail Run is a local Charter School.  Now a charter school, for those who may not be familiar, is a school which is funded almost identically to our neighborhood public school by our state legislature. 

According to our school district leadership "The WPU (weighted pupil unit--the amount of money per student allotted to each public school to educate that student) is the same statewide for any student who has membership for 180 days of school. Where it gets a little tricky is that charter schools have worked it out so that for charter elementary students the WPU is .90, for grades 7-8 the WPU is .99, and for high school the WPU is 1.2. Obviously they did this because of the added cost it is to run a high school with the different programs, etc.

"Membership reports are taken on October 1 - funding goes wherever the student is on October 1. If a student transfers to a public school from a charter school after October 1 - all of the money stays at the charter school. Obviously - if a student moves to a charter school from a public school after October 1, all of the money stays at the public school."

 

 

The fact that this school is advertising a bunch of "swag" for any student who enrolls long enough to be counted as theirs by the legislature for funding purposes is WRONG.  It is unethical and is not the way these charter schools were meant to be part of our "school choice".

I would love to scream about this.  But I don't have the energy anymore.  It feels like we have been beating our heads against the wall since they came into being.