DCPS Improving -- Let's Ignore Charters
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Anonymous
Now yeah, and it's voluntary on their end. All charters are not apart of the common lottery. |
Anonymous
Kaya Henderson is generally supportive of all education reform in DC. She supports DCPS first and does not take shots at charters unless they bump up against specific plans to hold onto DCPS buildings or create new programs that duplicate what she has in mind. |
Anonymous
That's exactly the right attitude. It's certainly how I see it. Charters are supposed to fill gaps left by the public-run system (montessori etc). They should not compete directly with it, and should be given a fair second choice for buildings after the public system has decided they're not needed. |
Anonymous
Well, at least the bully hasn't been counseled out of the HRCS, like so many would claim. I think that bullying is a real problem in many schools. |
Anonymous
The problem is that parents outside of wards 3, 2 and 6 are choosing charters despite their relatively worse locations, buildings, and payrolls. Go figure! |
Anonymous
I can see why they wanted the time stamp waitlist, the language is difficult and parent commitment is essential to student success, but it will be interesting to see if there are significant changes in results once the student body is more representative of a random lottery. |
Anonymous
| People used to have paid line standers to get into Oyster. |
Anonymous
Bullies, not bully. Think of mean girls. |
Anonymous
| We've been at a HRC for four years and please no more. Had I known what I know now I wouldn't have bought into the packaging, the rhetoric, the promises of something newer, shinier, superior. The charter my kids attended have inexperienced administrators who are lacking across the board. These schools get away with everything, get caught, apologize (sometimes), say they will improve, but whoops, it doesn't happen. It's the kids who suffer and miss fundamentals year after year. Such a frustrating experience. Wish we would have invested in our local DCPS. |
Anonymous
Negative! It is done to students from Southeast who are attending schools OOB. Typically it is the result of attendance issues. The principal will use the reasoning that if they are having trouble getting to school (or getting to school on time) then you should be at their neighborhood school. And while on the surface it might sound logical there are sometimes circumstances that are extenuating. |
Anonymous
Right, and there is zero evidence that charters are any more or less likely than DCPS schools to do this. |
Anonymous
I smell a rat! This is utter BS and it's obvious. If you want to argue against charters then do it, but do it honestly. It makes no sense that you have "suffered" through your charter's incompetence for FOUR YEARS. It doesn't even pass the smell test. If you didn't like the quality of the education you were getting and preferred DCPS then you're a horrible parent with out of whack priorities. Seriously, you're either one of the charter hating BS artists that can't make an honest or intellectual argument or one of the world's worst parents. Either way I feel bad for your kids because they're going to have to overcome having a loathsome person like you as their parent. |
Anonymous
NO, that is not cherry-picking like charters because in the end it is another DCPS school that has to take them in.....yes, it may be one individual DCPS school that is doing this but they end up going to another one. So as a system, the comment "DCPS schools cannot cherry pick like the charters..." is correct. |
Anonymous
Except only a zealot like yourself would think about this in terms of DCPS vs Charter. People looking for quality school options care about the school they are at (or to which they will go). They don't care about your public policy statement. So I think what the other person was trying to say is that cherry picking is something in which all good schools might engage, not just Charter schools. HRCS may do it because they want to maintain a standard and drive away "undesirable" kids, LRCS are unlikely to do so as they don't have a waitlist. Same thing at DCPS schools. An underenrolled school isn't going to drive away kids; Ludlow Taylor might. (Relax people, just an example of a school that used to take lots of OOB kids and because of the test scores and neighborhood growth they don't need to anymore.) Most parents (low income, high income, middle income) are too busy living their lives to engage in all or none zealotry. I'm thrilled you have the time and energy to do so. |
Anonymous
Annnnddddd when the charter messes up too bad they can just rebrand themselves and come back with a different name. Sometimes for the better sometimes not. There is one charter that lost its charter then rolled over into another charter that is now hiring a ton of inexperienced brand new teachers. In the meantime DCPS is ushering out the experienced teachers because they have reached the salary cap. SMH |