Many traditional public schools send special ed kids to continuation schools every day.

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8. Special needs kids.

From my experience, the charters either screen them out or send them back to the public schools the minute they are recognized as high risk, low return students unless they are chartered to serve that population. Where they are so chartered or where they attempt to increase special needs enrollment they often lack the expertise to do so effectively. Also, most public school students who are in an alternative educational placement need to be there and only end up there after it becomes unavoidably clear that they cannot function within a general school population and are chronic impediments to the learning and sometimes the safety of others. It is also the policy of such schools to attempt reintegration of these kids. Students who are in detention facilities cannot be legally brought to a public school, but the public schools send teachers to them.