How charter schools choose desirable students

[Peregrine]

8. And every year I was with a charter

I had kids who were pushed out of the public schools. The parents had been given a choice of expulsion or withdrawal. So they moved the kid to the charter. And many of these kids were in gangs, so my school went from a well behaved and good achievement low income hispanic school to gangland.

When you read that a charter school did such-n-such, there are probably public schools doing the exact thing. In Orlando, a public high school (Jones) was persuading parents to withdraw their low achieving students and going to charters. Since this would happen after the October body count and before the February body count, the students wouldn't count against either school. A school's grade is based on only students that are at the same school in both body counts.