Charter Schools giving neighborhood preferance

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to LOVE this when my daughter gets to the 5th grade. Good luck getting into BASIS bitches!

BASIS will become a magnet school!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to LOVE this when my daughter gets to the 5th grade. Good luck getting into BASIS bitches!

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! You guys are wasting your breath!

Don't get your panties in a wad - we know this...but it's fun to see DCUM get all fired up. Isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hee - Shalom, bitches!

That's what I'm saying'!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they do this, I hope there is sufficient warning so I can plan my real estate investments accordingly.

We live in the shadow of Haynes and may be looking at an out-of-state relocation this summer. The prospect of being "in-bounds" for Haynes is almost enough to wait another year to sell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they do this, I hope there is sufficient warning so I can plan my real estate investments accordingly.

We live in the shadow of Haynes and may be looking at an out-of-state relocation this summer. The prospect of being "in-bounds" for Haynes is almost enough to wait another year to sell.

I sincerely can't see proximity preference being given anytime soon. Also, so many charters move...they have a lease for couple years and then they find a new spot...how to you negotiate those terms? And other schools (including Haynes) have multiple campuses depending on the grade. And the whole idea behind charters was to provide viable options for all children of this city and establishing proximity preference would be too severe of a reversal of that mission. I too live within throwing distance of Haynes and would have loved to get a spot there, but it didn't happen...and I'm sort of thankful though because I may have to drive my child across town everyday to attend his great WOTP DCPS school but at least my child is not having to go to school at a construction site.

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How do they define neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they do this, I hope there is sufficient warning so I can plan my real estate investments accordingly.

We live in the shadow of Haynes and may be looking at an out-of-state relocation this summer. The prospect of being "in-bounds" for Haynes is almost enough to wait another year to sell.

I sincerely can't see proximity preference being given anytime soon. Also, so many charters move...they have a lease for couple years and then they find a new spot...how to you negotiate those terms? And other schools (including Haynes) have multiple campuses depending on the grade. And the whole idea behind charters was to provide viable options for all children of this city and establishing proximity preference would be too severe of a reversal of that mission. I too live within throwing distance of Haynes and would have loved to get a spot there, but it didn't happen...and I'm sort of thankful though because I may have to drive my child across town everyday to attend his great WOTP DCPS school but at least my child is not having to go to school at a construction site.

How do those graps taste? Sour?

[Anonymous]

What happens when a family rents a house 3 months before the lottery, and leaves it the day after enrollment? In DCPS, it's at the principal's discretion whether a newly OOB student remains - but no one is OOB for charters. So a 3 month move results in automatically securing a spot in a sought-after charter? All this would do, in the long run, is benefit people with the resources to game the system.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they do this, I hope there is sufficient warning so I can plan my real estate investments accordingly.

We live in the shadow of Haynes and may be looking at an out-of-state relocation this summer. The prospect of being "in-bounds" for Haynes is almost enough to wait another year to sell.

I sincerely can't see proximity preference being given anytime soon. Also, so many charters move...they have a lease for couple years and then they find a new spot...how to you negotiate those terms? And other schools (including Haynes) have multiple campuses depending on the grade. And the whole idea behind charters was to provide viable options for all children of this city and establishing proximity preference would be too severe of a reversal of that mission. I too live within throwing distance of Haynes and would have loved to get a spot there, but it didn't happen...and I'm sort of thankful though because I may have to drive my child across town everyday to attend his great WOTP DCPS school but at least my child is not having to go to school at a construction site.

How do those graps taste? Sour?

You're so clever and glib. Nope, no sour grapes. Just honesty. We really feel like we won the lottery for our kids and couldn't ask for a better school...but AT THE TIME when we didn't get a spot at Haynes it was disappointing because the idea of walking to school was just so appealing....a quality of life thing. Yes, we have to drive across town for school, but we're in a groove now and use the travel time as quality time...sharing music together, talking about issues, etc. And it's 100% worth it. My point is that I am sincerely grateful that my child doesn't attend a school that is a construction site and will be for quite some time--this negative quality of life variable would have cancelled out the walking to school thing in my mind. I'm not all about pretty packaging, but I do think the facilities and a sense of order, peace and pleasing aesthetics have roles to play in a child's school experience.

[Anonymous]

We can see Haynes from our backyard. So although our daughter attends another nearby DCPS school OOB, I would welcome this for charters because it would increase my home's market value, pure and simple.
As for people arguing that Ward 8 is not getting enough benefit from the charter system, I guess I wonder why more charters aren't opening there already given the need. Maybe charter administrators are not really the selfless sacrificing do-gooders they would have us all believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can see Haynes from our backyard. So although our daughter attends another nearby DCPS school OOB, I would welcome this for charters because it would increase my home's market value, pure and simple.
As for people arguing that Ward 8 is not getting enough benefit from the charter system, I guess I wonder why more charters aren't opening there already given the need. Maybe charter administrators are not really the selfless sacrificing do-gooders they would have us all believe.

Good point. There are certainly more properties available in Ward 8 that could be bought or leased for charter schools but there aren't many takers there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can see Haynes from our backyard. So although our daughter attends another nearby DCPS school OOB, I would welcome this for charters because it would increase my home's market value, pure and simple.
As for people arguing that Ward 8 is not getting enough benefit from the charter system, I guess I wonder why more charters aren't opening there already given the need. Maybe charter administrators are not really the selfless sacrificing do-gooders they would have us all believe.

It's pretty simple. Most charter schools (not all, but most) depend on having a socioeconomically diverse mix of students to be successful. And it's unfortunate, but sschools in Ward 8 are unlikely to draw that mix.

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Anonymous wrote:We can see Haynes from our backyard. So although our daughter attends another nearby DCPS school OOB, I would welcome this for charters because it would increase my home's market value, pure and simple.
As for people arguing that Ward 8 is not getting enough benefit from the charter system, I guess I wonder why more charters aren't opening there already given the need. Maybe charter administrators are not really the selfless sacrificing do-gooders they would have us all believe.

It's pretty simple. Most charter schools (not all, but most) depend on having a socioeconomically diverse mix of students to be successful. And it's unfortunate, but sschools in Ward 8 are unlikely to draw that mix.

+1000, like a PP said a few pages back...you can open another "Haynes" in ward 8, but what are the chances that there would be any diversity at that school?

[Anonymous]

The discussions cited in the article have nothing to do with Haynes or YY.

It's been about what to do with the DCPS schools near KIPP campuses. This has been going on for a while under the radar. KIPP doesn't want to give up anything (can you blame them?) in order to take over DCPS schools near their buildings. After the Friends of Bedford fiasco the Rhee put in and Henderson cleaned up, it's not surprising the DCPS isn't in a rush to fully outsource to charters.

As a PP stated, DCPS can barely manage residency issues. But at least has centralized electronic lottery. Imagine if all the individual charters had to verify boundaries for each location AND continue to run separate lotteries and waitlists? What a nightmare.

The only way to make anything neighborhood-based work is if the charter and DCPS boundaries were the same and used the same lottery database and waitlist policies.

Not holding my breath on that one.

[Anonymous]

typo. meant "that Rhee put in" not "the Rhee".