[Lone Ranger]

I hear a lot of people talk about charters helping students "escape" certain failing public schools.
Why do you make anyone go to a school that people need to "escape" from.
Do you just leave the undesirables behind. The ones who don't have the resources to "escape?"
If you let everyone go to the charter school you can't keep the ones you want to "escape" from out, or at least that's my theory.

I believe you are hitting on a great point here. I think the presumption is the charter school will be able to select which students they allow in & which not. Which will be true to a point. But couple that with the fact that the charter will have to turn some profit as it is a business entity as much as an educational institution will make for interesting decisions when the time comes to pay the bills. People that think charters will be elite schools with no problems need to rethink that point.