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If admission to schools must be based on residence or a lottery, should we do away with public exam schools like Stuyvesant or Boston Latin?

Ah, but these school are above-board about what they are. Charters who skim the cream, tacitly discourage kids with LDs or kick them out, then boast about their amazing success rate are not being above-board at all. What's more, they may be contributing to the decline of public education in other ways.

I actually am not necessarily anti-charter--but boy, this kind of thing really gets me steamed.

As to whether "too much" is being spent on special ed--what is the right amount? I can't claim to know, but shall we go back to warehousing these kids in insitutions or deeming them uneducable? I dare say not.