Charter schools and high income families

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

Sad. Our neighborhood school (EOTP and low-regarded) has a ton of involved families and events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

You realize they could be facing many more challenges and stressors, financial and otherwise, than the "professional, educated, homeowning" parents at your child's charter school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

You realize they could be facing many more challenges and stressors, financial and otherwise, than the "professional, educated, homeowning" parents at your child's charter school?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To charters compared to while other schools? I would say MV felt like a small private (i.e The Sheridan School) when we toured, but we thankfully got into a WOTP school and are estactic.

Not at mundo verde but I wouldn’t be estactic about any WOTP school. I’d be fine with it I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

Maybe they do organize social events, they just don’t invite you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a matter of degree, and many do not like to be characterized this way. Generally these people are comfortable joining the larger cohorts of people like themselves where they can, even where they remain minorities. It can be better to be part of the 25% white and upper class minority at a mostly black charter school in terms of getting curriculum tailored to your kids needs - generally, a need for on or above grade level rather than remedial programming - than part of a 5 percent or less at a supposedly gentrifying DCPS where your child can be one of few on grade level. But it's far from a private school education. The school can't literally segregate, but through effort and interest, people can tend to cluster.

Agree. When only 2 or 3 kids in your neighborhood school are above grade level and the majority are below grade level, those few kids needs won’t be met. They will be left to their own on chrome books all day or asked to be a leader and “help” the other kids. When a larger cohort of kids are above grade level like 25-30%, then there is a higher probability of more direct teacher instruction towards this cohort and needs are better met.

It’s not a private school education by far. But it’s better than your child being ignored just because they are advance. DCPS doesn’t care about challenging the more advance kids at the top. They care about one thing and one thing only and that is closing the achievement gap in bringing up the bottom.

[Anonymous]

What is high income in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what you mean by "a private school education" but if you mean avoiding being around low-income people, then yes.[/quote

It’s obvious you don’t get it. It’s not about that or the race card that people are always using. It’s about offering more challenging classes or instruction for the advance kids. I don’t care if the kids are homeless, poor, middle class, or rich as long as they are able to perform in an advance or more challenging class. VA and MD offer this but not DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what you mean by "a private school education" but if you mean avoiding being around low-income people, then yes.[/quote

It’s obvious you don’t get it. It’s not about that or the race card that people are always using. It’s about offering more challenging classes or instruction for the advance kids. I don’t care if the kids are homeless, poor, middle class, or rich as long as they are able to perform in an advance or more challenging class. VA and MD offer this but not DC.

BASIS offers exactly this and SWW GW program can offer it, too.

[Anonymous]

No charter schools are nothing like private schools. They do allow middle income families to stay in the city. Without charters, it would be rich and poor and young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No charter schools are nothing like private schools. They do allow middle income families to stay in the city. Without charters, it would be rich and poor and young.

+100

[Anonymous]

We live on a single income of 130k and sticking with public school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is high income in DC?

Minimum HHI of $250K

[Anonymous]

Balanced private - boy/girl, all bright to very smart, mix of athletes, artsy, musical, nerdy, children of ‘bold-face DMV names.

That’s what private schools mean by “fit” during admissions.

The K12 ones will fill in with new kids at MS and HS who round out their class, and make sure they will have students who can be admitted to elite colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what you mean by "a private school education" but if you mean avoiding being around low-income people, then yes.

Wrong. I have kids at YY and another HRCS, and there are many low income people at YY, and a preponderance if them at the other school.