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[quote=Anonymous]HD Cooke really suffers from the charter drain, I think.  There's not enough of a critical mass of IB educated, motivated high energy parents to create the HSA juggernaut that can build on good faculty and administration and create things like significant after-school enrichment opportunities, assist with field trip coordination, etc.  Cooke is Title I with 50% non-English speaking parents.  We live IB for Cooke and every family on our street has elected to go charter or OOB instead of Cooke.  I know of only one family that tried Cooke in early years, and liked it, but left when they got the chance to go to WOTP OOB placement and when they saw that all the other families of their education and SES were opting out by K.

By charter drain I mean that 20 years ago, parents in MtP who were dissatisfied with Bancroft opted to go to Eaton OOB in large numbers---there was no charter option.  The efforts of those parents created a school that is now a popular IB option (and still attracts a lot of OOB interest from EOTP).  Were charters not available, I bet that all the parents who live in Columbia Heights, Shaw, and Park View who are now interested in charters would set their sights on Cooke.[/quote]

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