As a public school teacher, I don't get up in the morning to torture children. I've never assigned homework that takes hours. My students aren't doing structured activities for 7 hours a day and we go outside to play as a class.
Here is what I see from my angle. Charter Schools like the ones in Waiting for Superman are a joke and a half. A public school is designed to educate everyone, a charter school gets to pick and choose. Usually a charter school will flat out deny a child because of a disability, which is highly unfair to special needs students or 2E students. They can also deny a child if the parents aren't going to offer support. The teachers in charter schools are also not the happiest people in the world because their working conditions are ridiculous. I'd sooner leave teaching than work in a charter school. However, no matter where I go I'm treated as the problem.
