Charter schools get prime, former elementary school buildings

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad to open TR right next to Browne Ed Campus. As long as charters can kick out kids that don't fit their mold, public schools will continue to fail.

This is not the reason public schools are failing.

True but when you have a set of schools (charters) that have expelled hundreds and another set (DCPS) that has expelled less than 100 over the same time period you do have to ask questions. I don't know what the answer is but it sure is a discrepancy.

Please identify your source for these numbers? And I assume the source is omaring actual data for the same school years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad to open TR right next to Browne Ed Campus. As long as charters can kick out kids that don't fit their mold, public schools will continue to fail.

This is not the reason public schools are failing.

True but when you have a set of schools (charters) that have expelled hundreds and another set (DCPS) that has expelled less than 100 over the same time period you do have to ask questions. I don't know what the answer is but it sure is a discrepancy.

Please identify your source for these numbers? And I assume the source is omaring actual data for the same school years?

"Omaring" should be COMParing...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charters can not kick out kids that don't fit the mold. This is false information.

They "counsel" the kids out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters can not kick out kids that don't fit the mold. This is false information.

No, it isn't. KIPP is notorious for calling OSSE for alternative placements for kids right after the count. And no charters, with the exception of st colleta's, are educating the severely disabled. I'm just saying - charters can and do kick kids out. I have seen it.

DCPS isn't educating the severely disabled either. They ship them all out to outside schools. DCPS has already set that precedent of outplacement for special needs kids, with OSSE's blessings. To hammer on charters on that point is thus hypocritical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad to open TR right next to Browne Ed Campus. As long as charters can kick out kids that don't fit their mold, public schools will continue to fail.

This is not the reason public schools are failing.

True but when you have a set of schools (charters) that have expelled hundreds and another set (DCPS) that has expelled less than 100 over the same time period you do have to ask questions. I don't know what the answer is but it sure is a discrepancy.

Please identify your source for these numbers? And I assume the source is omaring actual data for the same school years?

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-05/local/36208283_1_charter-advocates-charter-schools-traditional-public-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's sad to open TR right next to Browne Ed Campus. As long as charters can kick out kids that don't fit their mold, public schools will continue to fail.

That suggests DCPS was thriving until charters came along and broke them, and we all know that's not true. The reality is that charters enroll more high poverty students than DCPS does, and gets better academic results with them. With that in mind, the more the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters can not kick out kids that don't fit the mold. This is false information.

No, it isn't. KIPP is notorious for calling OSSE for alternative placements for kids right after the count. And no charters, with the exception of st colleta's, are educating the severely disabled. I'm just saying - charters can and do kick kids out. I have seen it.

What do you mean by "severely disabled"? If you're talking about the kind of students that end up at St. Colleta's, DCPS isn't educating them either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters can not kick out kids that don't fit the mold. This is false information.

No, it isn't. KIPP is notorious for calling OSSE for alternative placements for kids right after the count. And no charters, with the exception of st colleta's, are educating the severely disabled. I'm just saying - charters can and do kick kids out. I have seen it.

That is not true. Bridges PCS does.

[Anonymous]

New question on this topic: would you walk your kids to the new Two Rivers campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New question on this topic: would you walk your kids to the new Two Rivers campus?

Yes. I would hope off of the street car and walk right up to the front door of the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New question on this topic: would you walk your kids to the new Two Rivers campus?

Yes. I would hope off of the street car and walk right up to the front door of the school.

"hop" not "hope"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New question on this topic: would you walk your kids to the new Two Rivers campus?

From where? There's no metro within a one mile radius. It's surrounded by other schools (Phelps, and Springarn and Brown - at least one of which is closing) and the golf course. Driving is pretty much the only option.

[Anonymous]

What is the address of the school?

[Anonymous]

There are other options other than driving.

The trolley and the bus runs down Benning Road. this means that parents/student will walkd from Benning Road to get the the school.

If they ever get the trolleys running.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New question on this topic: would you walk your kids to the new Two Rivers campus?

Yes. I would hope off of the street car and walk right up to the front door of the school.

I really want to like the streetcar plan; but it's going to be a long time before we can say it has proven itself.