What extracurricular activities do charters sometimes lack?
After school activities and other resources in charter schools are limited because of funding. The larger school you have, the more students that you are able to accommodate, the more funding you have, the more economies of scale, the more money you have for extra curricular activities. When you remain small, some of our schools only have a hundred kids, for example, so with some of our charter schools there is very limited resources. And if thirty percent of it goes to your facility, the other goes to your faculty and your personnel, that leaves a little bit of money for extra resources after school. But yet, charter schools do do that, there's a belief in having after school activities for children, there's a belief in keeping students after school rather than leaving them out in their neighbourhoods to really get up into trouble. Many charter schools are being very creative and inventive about how they do after school programs, so we have after school programs in academics, tutoring, homework support, arts, intramural sports in the school for example. Charter schools are creative, they try to do the best for the kids so that although they may not have as many after school programs, they do have after school programs.
