Wonder what it would be like if the state Department of Public Instruction held public school districts to the same standards they just voted to apply to public charter schools? Wonder no more, thanks to Terry Stoops new report.

Applying the same performance policy and standards to CMS institutions would close Allenbrook, Ashley Park, Briarwood, Reid Park, Walter G. Byers, Hickory Grove, and Paw Creek elementary schools. Ranson, Cochrane, Sedgefield, and Spaugh middle schools would be shuttered. And the Morgan alternative school along with Phillip O Berry Academy of Technology and Garinger high would go poof.

Gaston County would lose another five schools and overall the Charlotte region would lose 28 schools.