> charter schools don't serve special needs students. More than that, charter schools bias towards engaged and interested parents. Because of policies like No Child Left Behind, it is really bad for local neighborhood schools to have all of their high performing students leave for charter schools.
But when taken to an extreme, this leads to exclusive areas and excluded people.
But the question of "where should I send _my_ kids" should be considered separately from "how should education in this country as a whole be structured."
You have to distinguish between the macro and micro. Another example is college. If my nephew asked me whether he should go to college, I'd say, definitely do that, if you can afford it. But on a macro level, college in the US has kind of become scam and we have to do something about it.
Automation will have decimated many industries, what will be left is up in the air, and when he graduates will those jobs still be there?
Unless in the future college is more of an extra-curricular boredom thing because post-scarcity society and all (wishful thinking).