Charter schools and high income families
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NP. That sounds nice, except I repeatedly tell people about the enrichment opportunities at our neighborhood school, but am meet with something along the lines of "well it couldn't be challenging enough" because it includes students from poor families too. Sorry for the skepticism. |
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DP. It all depends on whether those, or any other, students are able to keep up with the enriched classes. If classes become "honors for all," then yes they do start to lose meaning. But that doesn't have anything to do, at least directly, with the income of the students. |
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Nope. I have experience with all 3 (public charter, public and independent). They are different. The educational quality can be very high at public charters, but they are simply different from independent and public schools. I would say, by order of preference, I prefer independent for elementary (no equivalent for arts, specials, recess, physical education, non-focus on testing, SEL, pre and after care, and after school classes), all 3 fine for middle (if a "good" one), good public charter, test-in public + Wilson (IF your child is a go-getter), and independent for HS--but all very different. Public charter and independent tend to be the most "responsive", but I think the public charter is a little more genuinely about the child. Private schools, IMO, pander to squeaky wheel parents a lot--as do public. Weird parallels, I know. Public charters are a little more resistant to that, but a little more shaped to the actual child. Mission driven. - this is my subjective opinion |
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Sure, there might be some people who are like this but it’s not the majority of people that I know. If DCPS elementary and middle schools offered more challenging and advance classes, the families will come. Please expand on what enrichment opportunities your neighborhood school has and the PARCC scores. It might be helpful data and why families are not choosing to send their children there. |
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A well implement school-wide enrichment model program. Why do average PARCC scores matter? It is a really poor measure. |
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Exactly this. Even the HRCs don't come close to private schools or even better public schools. But they're better than some of the high poverty DCPS schools that these middle class parents won't accept, so they keep middle class families in the city. The DCPS landscape is much better now than it was 10-15 years ago. Back then, there were very few schools outside of WOTP or parts of Cap Hill with acceptable schools, even for elementary. Today, more people are willing to try their IB DCPS. Offering charters has been part of the process to keep middle class families in the city, and then slowly some of them consider their IB school to take advantage of commute, neighborhood ties, etc. While charters need more oversight, they've been a key part of the process to turn around all DC public schools. |
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| We happened to get into a fantastic charter. We donate far more than the average family but pay far less than private. It's win win. |
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“ A well implement school - wide enrichment program” tells me nothing. You have not expanded on any details. PARCC scores are not the be all, end all but at least it gives a family a general sense of the competency of the students there. For instance, if only 15% of the students are on grade level with PARCC 3 and the remaining 85% of the students are below grade level with 1 and 2, then that’s a big problem if your child is advance and scoring 4 or 5. |
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This is a crazy post. There are some seriously good charters and dcps is awful- overcrowded at the better ones and dismal at others. |
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Isn't LAMB one of the best schools in the city, charter, public, private or otherwise? |
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| It's advanceD, dammit, ADVANCED |