Charter school parents: why are you okay with diverting resources from public schools?

[Anonymous]

Just need bragging rights to strangers online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, look at the data. DCPS schools were on a long enrollment decline. People used to not live in the city at all, because of the schools. They were bad long before charters got started in any significant numbets.

The relationship between neighborhood schools and charters is more nuanced than you may realize. Personally, I have children at our IB Title I and am busting my ass to make it work. But the possibility of charter middle school is the only reason I'm willing to be there at all, because the neighborhood middle school is unacceptable. Without charters, I'd be gone.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think if you look far enough back the reason for the decline in DC population wasn't that the schools were bad. There were a lot of racial aspects tied to suburban flight around the time of the riots.
For example, Roosevelt used to be a great school with notable graduates. Not so much in the last 30-40 years.

When my 10 year old was born, people told me to leave because of DCPS, not because of racial issues. Had I not had a good charter option, I would have had to leave. DCPS was acting continuously recklessly with regard to our neighborhood school. I could not have trusted that my child would be safe. 7 year olds were eating crack in the classroom.

and now they are smoking it, that is progress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, look at the data. DCPS schools were on a long enrollment decline. People used to not live in the city at all, because of the schools. They were bad long before charters got started in any significant numbets.

The relationship between neighborhood schools and charters is more nuanced than you may realize. Personally, I have children at our IB Title I and am busting my ass to make it work. But the possibility of charter middle school is the only reason I'm willing to be there at all, because the neighborhood middle school is unacceptable. Without charters, I'd be gone.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think if you look far enough back the reason for the decline in DC population wasn't that the schools were bad. There were a lot of racial aspects tied to suburban flight around the time of the riots.
For example, Roosevelt used to be a great school with notable graduates. Not so much in the last 30-40 years.

When my 10 year old was born, people told me to leave because of DCPS, not because of racial issues. Had I not had a good charter option, I would have had to leave. DCPS was acting continuously recklessly with regard to our neighborhood school. I could not have trusted that my child would be safe. 7 year olds were eating crack in the classroom.

and now they are smoking it, that is progress