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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is already one of the most well-funded (on a money spent per student basis) districts in the nation.  More funding is not the answer.  The key is in getting people to actually listen to what parents want and need, and providing it.  People are bailing out of DCPS schools in droves because they don't feel DCPS can meet their students needs.  It's as simple as that.  For every charter student enrolled, there is a story out there about why they left or bypassed DCPS.  But sadly DCPS, council and anti-charter activists have not listened and show no interest in listening any time in the near future.  As such, there can be no reasonable expectation that the deep problems in DCPS will ever be solved anytime in the near future.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]This.  DCPS continues not to listen to what parents need.  They continue to think that every neighborhood school should and can serve every neighborhood student.  That will never work.  Create a school for children who can not behave in a normal environment.  Create a school for children with special needs.  Create a school for children who are gifted.  Then let the neighborhood schools start to work for the majority of the students in the neighborhood.  If you skip these steps and continue to act as if every child needs the exact same environment, anyone with choices will leave.  Cutting out the choices in the city will not drive the families with choices to the bad schools, it will drive them out completely.  Why do they not realize that these things are related?[/quote]
This city still lacks the sophistication to discern what is fair and what is equal.  Far too much energy is expounded on dissing Wilson and Deal for their strength, and asserting that Wilson's strength is unjust in light of other schools and their weaker position.  Many/most would rather have things be "equal" versus fair.  See page three of the  DCPS Hopes and Dreams report:  http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/ABOUT%20DCPS/Strategic%20Documents/DCPS-Report-Hopes-and-Dreams.pdf

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/ABOUT%20DCPS/Strategic%20Documents/DCPS-Report-Hopes-and-Dreams.pdf[/quote]

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