Public education is not easy

This was a response to an article about the need for merit pay and Charter Schools. Really !Who will teach the unteachable? The criminals? I had them in my class. How do you measure success? Good grades? Good citizens? I would love to see what the religious (Charter Schools) would do with an atheist. Should they deny funding rather than accepting an atheist? How about the unmotivated?
Original article from http://emegill.blogspot.com/2009/02/public-education-is-not-easy.html