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Every day I drive past the Jordan School District's prime Redwood Road front offices with their huge building and shiny fleet of vehicles out front. Don't ask me why a school district needs such valuable property to call their home, but it is clear that "big enterprise" is not isolated to charter school administration.

I say where things can be privatized, they should be. Government should not be in business for business's sake, and most times private firms can do a better job with less money. In the case of my child, a charter school was necessary to challenge him, since the public option takes the lowest common denominator approach to learning, and our child would have to spend a year bored while the rest of the class learns ABC's and basic math (he is already reading and doing simple algebra).

It seems charter schools are doing a better job and are actually accountable for student outcomes in order to remain in business. Yes, they take money to run, but in this case there is no smoke, and certainly no fire.

Jacob Morrill

West Jordan