#chance sets

[Anonymous]

I keep hearing the 75% figure bandied about in these debates--that so many kids are travelling around already, why not through everyone else into the mix? But I think this number is artificially inflated by including charter school attendees. Many, many charter school families attend charters because of specialized programming. And of course, all of these families have voluntarily opted out of DCPS.

So really, we're talking instead about somewhere around 32-33% of kids in the system who are attending DCPS OOB. These are the folks who are electing to exercise "choice"--and their choices are not currently limited or proscribed by any kind of set.

What is being proposed instead is decidedly not about *offering* more choices to more people--it's about *compelling more people* to make choices among a more limited set of options. Calling this a choice set and making it sound like this is something to be excited about is a clever bit of marketing to be sure, but let's be honest about what it actually is. Handing over a big stack of lottery tickets and pretending that the payoff will be an increase in quality education for everyone without any clear evidence that it will deliver.

[Anonymous]

#controlled is not a choice