If you send your kids to charter schools, why did you choose that over your neighborhood / district school?
I am on 2 committees in my district that are having in-depth conversations about why parents/students are choosing to go to charters instead of our schools. I'd like to hear from parents who made this choice, vs just theorizing. I promise not to judge your decision, just trying to understand it accurately.
FWIW, our enrollment has fallen by 500 students this past year, and local charter enrollment has increased by 500. Same thing in neighboring school districts. This means a cut in our funding, which is being used to justify not giving raises, reducing a bunch of positions, and storing up even more money in our rainy day fund (which is very, very full in comparison to many other districts). This leads to more teacher dissatisfaction and turnover, which leads to worse instruction, which leads to more parents not wanting their kids in our schools....
ETA: When I talk about cutting positions, we haven't had librarians in 8 years, we have 1 nurse for 800 kids and no sub nurses, we have one counselor for 800 kids despite being a 100% free lunch / high poverty school, they cut 1/5 of the special areas teachers, our class sizes are 30-35 grades 3-8, and we rarely have substitutes and instead have to split up the students.