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Charters’ limits keenly felt in some Boston schools

This is one Boston Public Schools teacher who, like Scot Lehigh (“Way to better schools is around unions,” Op-ed, Sept. 14), hopes that there will be some legislative remedies to Boston’s charter school enrollment numbers. On a recent Friday alone, I proudly worked with five special needs students who were once enrolled in Boston’s charter schools.

While I have never lost a struggling student to a charter school, it seems every year I meet new students discarded from charter schools.

Hopefully our state lawmakers will be on the side of all children instead of just the students at schools that serve a narrow-minded agenda.

John Abbott

Brookline

The writer is a special education teacher.