+1 to Chuck and Ceders post.
How about a 5 or 6 year old child that enters kindergarten and cannot recognize letters or numbers? whose fault is that?

I have observed that most of the people that are anti public education are fairly ignorant and often spout regurgitated sound bites they have heard from Limbaugh and the like as there "facts".

Are public schools perfect? No, but charter schools are not the second coming of Jesus. If you do a little research you will find that the majority of charter schools do not outperform thier public counterparts, if fact it is quite the opposite.
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