I thought the movie did a good job illuminating some of the PROBLEMS in education but failed, big time, on outlining the solutions.
If you watch the movie you’d end up thinking that all charter schools are better than traditional public schools. That charter schools are the answer to it all.
Looking at San Diego Unified (biggest district in the county) only one charter school stands out as outstanding – Preuss. To get into Preuss you have to be a kid from a single family household. So it’s not open to all kids to apply. The other charter schools in SDUSD are in the middle of the pack by almost any standard… api scores, graduation rates, kids getting into college.
