When I read letters such as Richard Patton’s (“Tom Wolf right to act on charter schools,” Sept. 25, TribLIVE), bragging about the graduation rates of charter versus public schools, I give out a sad sigh.

The public schools have to “push through” students who cannot perform simple math. I have personally witnessed this process. Schools are doing these students no favor with this action. Have you gone through a fast food drive-thru lately?

This “getting them through” way of increasing the graduation rates is for schools to “meet” the state goals he stated in his letter. Sadly using these children by “cooking the books.”

Denny Biava

Mt. Pleasant

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