Terrible point about the schools. Too bad we don’t have a Charter Mayoral system where we can fire bad Mayors as soon as they fail.

It is so sad that we continue to try and demonize Mayor Slay and any one who tries to offer St. Louis students alternatives to a failed system. This has to be the new slavery system!! Lets force students to attend schools that don’t work and then let’s make monsters out anyone who wants to help them… Taxpayers deserve the right to attend schools that are equitable and offer a real opportunity for student development… we see little of that.. The truth is the folks at the Can Academies decided that they wanted to step back and take a look at their model and adjust it to fit the needs of St. Louisians. I wish somebody would close our failing public schools and require them to take a true look at themselves. I think that was a very smart move on their part and hope they are able to develop a model that works for students.

Wasn’t the CAN school focused on drop-outs? Where did the drop outs come from? St. Louis Public Schools

I don’t think we can beat up the Mayor - who has never got my vote- over the failure of the CAN school failing to fix the failures of the failed public system

Slay provides more than enough ammo for his critics.CAN! came to STL @ the Mayor’s request and stole tax payer’s money.To come hear have no plan, systems, or support is criminal! Is the MO. GED that much different than Texas’? SLPS is/has failed because society has failed! When you have 3,000 homeless children, 50% drop out rate, 85% reuced or free lunch, and attendence @ your problem schools around 50%. Who can learn and where are the parents? With all that being said SLPS 50% Grad rate beats the 10% of student who got their GED @ CAN!. Some Choice.

It’s ridiculous that kids in St. Louis can’t find a good education, but I think the point is well-made: so kids aren’t learning at this charter school? Then the retribution is swift and final. Not so with the SLPS! They are just allowed to languish in some kind of dramatic death-scene while kids file in and out.

it’s interesting that the administrators are spinning this as an isolated case: the CAN! school in East Baton Rouge Parish had many of the same issues:

“The new school, however, quickly ran into trouble. Two administrators were replaced, teacher turnover was high, some students fled, and budgets were cut midyear.”

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/18997969.html.

Maybe it isn’t the schools at all? Maybe there has been a culture created where education isn’t important and it is “uncool” to achieve in school? Nah that can’t be it. It’s the school’s fault, let’s put more money into them that will make them better.