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Q. "The Irascible Professor thinks that charters do have a place in the public school spectrum. They offer an alternative to traditional "one-size-fits-all" classrooms that may be helpful for some children. At the same time parents have to be cautious about deciding to transfer their children from regular public schools to charters. First and foremost, each parent who is thinking about moving a child to a charter school should spend some time learning about that school. Parents should not hesitate to ask questions about the school's educational philosophy, about the test scores for its students, about the governing structure for the school, and about the fiscal integrity of the school. If answers are not forthcoming, then that particular charter school most likely is not the right choice. In addition, parents need to understand that the best charter schools like the best regular public schools encourage a high level of parental involvement. Indeed, some of the better charter schools require parental involvement. Finally, parents need to have realistic expectations. A charter school may not be able to perform miracles for a student who has fallen far behind in the regular school setting. But, with some help the child may eventually catch up." Why shouldn't parents also subject the regular public schools to the same scrutiny? I doubt if many parents do.

A. Rather than guessing, you can look it up: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/dropout/TablesFigures.asp Table 6 shows that the 14.1% noncompletion rate consists of 23.2% that fail to get a diploma less 9.2% that get a GED or some alternative (the GED is significantly higher than 6th grade level, it includes algebra, and on a norming experiment, 42% of graduating high school seniors failed the tests. The GED test battery takes over 7 hours too http://www.doe.mass.edu/ged/geninfo.html) Table 4 shows that it is Hispanics that have the worst completion rate, only 63.4% And Gray will be surprised by table 5 that shows that Mississippi isn't that much below the national average in completion rate, better than CA and Bush's Texas.

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