<p>They force a girl to take a pregnancy test if they suspect she is pregnant, if she is, or refuses to take the test she is kicked out. Or she can home school.</p>
<p>Good thing the baby daddies are off the hook.</p>
<p>This school also allows spanking. Of high school kids. Kind of warped but that another story.</p>
<p>This isn’t a private school.</p>
<p>I saw that.
[Get</a> Tested Or Get Out: School Forces Pregnancy Tests on Girls, Kicks out Students Who Refuse or are Pregnant](<a href=“http://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/get-tested-or-get-out-school-forces-pregnancy-tests-girls]Get”>http://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/get-tested-or-get-out-school-forces-pregnancy-tests-girls)</p>
<p>Isn’t a charter school run with public funds? How can they get away with that?</p>
<p>Charter schools do not have to adhere to the same rules as public schools. They can hire non-certified staff, do not have the same accountability of funds, etc. There are huge problems with charter schools in Florida, one local school stopped paying teacher’s health care benefits without telling staff, with held paychecks, and now 2 weeks before the start of the school year has shut down without the board meeting with parents.</p>
<p>Thank God for the ACLU.</p>
<p>Unbelievable in this day and age. Would it be better if high school students didn’t get pregnant? Yes. But this policy won’t fix the problem. And it is blatantly unconstitutional.</p>
<p>ECmotherx2 While Charter schools can operate under different rules than regular public schools, they are still public schools and accept public funding so they are still subject to the US Constitution and regulations such as Title IX which bar the policy this school is trying to impose.</p>
<p>Yes, and the ACLU will make sure that they do!</p>
<p>Let’s hope! but meanwhile, every time one of them plays fast and loose with the rules, and bars/discourages/abuses marginal students who leave, they can then trumpet their “better” success rates (with the cherry-picked remainder.)</p>
<p>I can’t see how they justify kicking out pregnant girls (which is wrong to do), if they’re not also kicking out the “father to be”…fair is fair… (but I don’t agree with kicking kids out for pregnancies at all).</p>
<p>More charter school news.
[More</a> charges possible in complex Philadelphia charter-school case - Philly.com](<a href=“Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes”>Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes)</p>
<p>[School</a> Official Charged - WSJ.com](<a href=“School Official Charged - WSJ”>School Official Charged - WSJ)</p>
<p>[Ohio</a> school official charged in $470,000 scheme - Steubenville, Wintersville, Toronto, Mingo, Weirton, Jefferson County | News, Sports, Jobs, HeraldStarOnline.com](<a href=“http://www.heraldstaronline.com/page/content.detail/id/210357/Ohio-school-official-charged-in--470-000-scheme-.html?isap=1&nav=5028]Ohio”>http://www.heraldstaronline.com/page/content.detail/id/210357/Ohio-school-official-charged-in--470-000-scheme-.html?isap=1&nav=5028)</p>
<p>Thank goodness that charter schools are free from the restrictive bureaucratic rules that constrain public schools.</p>
<p>I secretly applaud every piece of bad news about charter schools. They are one piece in the dismantling of public education.</p>
<p>I don’t understand kicking pregnant girls out of school.
Shouldn’t they be encouraged to continue their education?
What sort of logic is that?</p>
<p>There is a charter school in our state that is FINALLY being investigated for misappropriation and nepotism. AFTER the investigate revealed a lot of problems, they were awarded a big grant from a foundation. It does use state funds. Years before we & our D went to their open house & decided she would never attend because of bad feelings she got from the administration there. They are one of the few places in our state folks can attend mostly on-line, which makes it convenient for those who have scheduling issues.</p>
<p>^Online is also a part of the dismantling of public schools. There is a ton of money to be made in all these new ventures, and plenty is being poured into the right pockets these days in order to get more back. Testing, test prep, online courses, packaged lessons, equipment to use all this stuff–education has become a gold mine for private interests–the less oversight, the better for them.</p>
<p>Louisiana is trying to expand the charter school system. There’s some scary stuff here. </p>
<p>*The school willing to accept the most voucher students – 314 – is New Living Word in Ruston, which has a top-ranked basketball team but no library. Students spend most of the day watching TVs in bare-bones classrooms. Each lesson consists of an instructional DVD that intersperses Biblical verses with subjects such chemistry or composition.</p>
<p>The Upperroom Bible Church Academy in New Orleans, a bunker-like building with no windows or playground, also has plenty of slots open. It seeks to bring in 214 voucher students, worth up to $1.8 million in state funding.</p>
<p>At Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, pastor-turned-principal Marie Carrier hopes to secure extra space to enroll 135 voucher students, though she now has room for just a few dozen. Her first- through eighth-grade students sit in cubicles for much of the day and move at their own pace through Christian workbooks, such as a beginning science text that explains “what God made” on each of the six days of creation. They are not exposed to the theory of evolution.</p>
<p>“We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children,” Carrier said.</p>
<p>Other schools approved for state-funded vouchers use social studies texts warning that liberals threaten global prosperity; Bible-based math books that don’t cover modern concepts such as set theory; and biology texts built around refuting evolution.*</p>
<p>[Louisiana’s</a> bold bid to privatize schools | Reuters](<a href=“http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/01/us-education-vouchers-idUSL1E8H10AG20120601]Louisiana’s”>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/01/us-education-vouchers-idUSL1E8H10AG20120601)</p>
<p>Wow. You know the thing about any charter school is that the kid can simply go back to public school, right? Why would this poor kid subject herself to this abuse when she need only leave and attend the public option?</p>
<p>Choice is good. Especially for families trying to get the best education for their kids. Tenure for teachers is an appallingly terrible institution. Charters have emerged because public is so bad.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/07/17/charter-schools-celebrate-test-score-gains/[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/07/17/charter-schools-celebrate-test-score-gains/</a></p>
<p>Charter schools are an illusory choice for most. Instead, they sap resources from other schools, creating another layer of “haves” vs “have nots.” There’s a reason hedge funds are investing in them and it’s not altruistic.</p>
<p>So if charter schools can pick and choose, and what you call the “public option” (funny cuz I thought charter schools were supposed to be public!) cannot, then how come we keep comparing them by test scores? </p>
<p>Weirdly, even with the acknowledged and unacknowledged cherry-picking, charter schools do not average higher scores. Wonder how they’d do if they had the same proportion of special ed, ELL, behavior issue, and/or children of less involved or less able parents as public schools (your “public option”) have to deal with.</p>
<p>All those situations and more affect scores. If parents want the “choice” to avoid all the differences and problems in the general population, then it should be up to them to pay for it. Did you read what’s going on in the schools in LA? Whole subjects avoided or mangled, students sitting in cubicles working through workbooks of dubious quality, overt teaching of particular religion. The public should not be paying for that kind of choice “choice”.</p>
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<p>Who cares why she wants to stay in? That’s HER choice, isn’t it? Oops, no it’s not . . . because a school getting taxpayer $$$ is kicking out a student for a stupid reason over something that is none of their business.</p>
<p>That school should not get any more tax money.</p>