Overall, I have very mixed feelings about charters. I recognize that the system is in crisis overall and that some charters do excellent work and can really help certain kids. Our zoned school is absolutely not an option and I'm grateful that we have charters available, but they are a band-aid at best, and have some real drawbacks.
This is why the charters need to be based in the community they serve and entrance acceptance needs to be random or biased to families whose parents made poor choices earlier in their life, but who now are willing to make the commitment to do better.
Mr W has meltdowns from time to time and its a lot of hard work to get him to see that boo-hoo does not get him what he wants. We've come up with skits with his toys to get him to see how self control works better. He gets to do the skits for us and slowly it is making a difference. ( I got the idea for this from this forum. )
