HRCS - anything you want to improve?

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Anonymous wrote:I just wish there was some kind of location preference for charter schools. We love our school, but although my block is full of young kids that it seems everyone will go to different schools based on their luck in the lottery.

OP here. I completely agree!

I understand the desire for neighborhood choice, but all that would happen is affluent families would buy all the homes in the HRCS neighborhood zone and price everyone else out. The diversity that we value so highly in our HRCS would eventually be lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here

Despite all of your school's shortcomings, can you say you are still generally happy at your HRCS?

Yes, while we would likely get a much better language, arts, or music program and a better afterschool program at a good dcps, we wouldn't get Montessori curriculum or a sizable middle-class community or much diversity (except for a few schools, dcps are all rich or all poor depending on the neighborhood). We are very very happy and, in fact, gave up an alphabet soup school for our charter. But there are definitely things charters struggle to do well - they just don't have the infrastructure or resources of dcps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just wish there was some kind of location preference for charter schools. We love our school, but although my block is full of young kids that it seems everyone will go to different schools based on their luck in the lottery.

OP here. I completely agree!

I understand the desire for neighborhood choice, but all that would happen is affluent families would buy all the homes in the HRCS neighborhood zone and price everyone else out. The diversity that we value so highly in our HRCS would eventually be lost.

yep. people drive from eotr to our school!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thread title says HRCs ...

My point stands. Inane question. Why is this specific to HRC? Why not JKLM?

Go away!! You're no better than the Arlington or MD posters. People are allowed to ask targeted questions here you know.

And I'm allowed to object here, you know? Can your brain process all of that at once?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Communication. They even did away with the list serve.

Wow. Which HRCS is this?

Probably Basis - two years ago. The school never had one - it was the parent organization's. They parent org ended it because some people were posting very specific things about other people's children and discipline issues. They tried moderating it for a while but that just caused other complaints about censorship on the part of the moderators.

There's a small, unofficial one now but it isn't very active.

Absolutely disagree. The straw that apparently broke the camel's back at BASIS was a negative posting about the conduct of the (then) Head of School. No one posted (to the best of my knowledge) about other children. The unofficial one should BASIS parents please listen be more active, but unfortunately the administrators are members.

This absolutely has a key role in personal censorship and the lack of real discussion. The prior group had terms that were unacceptable - don't criticize a teacher by name etc. Since the admin are members of the new group, and we know that BASIS pushes kids out, free speech is automatically censored on this list serve which, as the PP noted, is not very active to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Wish my HRCS was the subject of even more inane chatter and saber rattling on DCUM.