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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is a huge issue, especially for kids with bad options.  I was a mentor/tutor in a low-income community in the District for nearly a decade (before the org sadly folded) and I had one kid I directly mentored over that time, but I also really got to know about 40 other kids in the program over the years after seeing them every week and some weekends.  They lived in a troubled neighborhood with a not great local elementary and these kids hopped from one school, mostly charters, to the next each year as their parents sought better options.  The kid I mentored went to at least 4 elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools before finally graduating.  And his experience wasn't uncommon.  Most of the kids weren't going to well-regarded charters, but small, newish ones that seemed, at least to me, disorganized and not terribly accountable (and I saw many kids displaced when their charters finally closed).  I didn't see ways that the constant churn was helping the kids, rather, it seemed to further disconnect them from their schooling experience (you'd ask them where they went, and they would say X for now, but maybe Y next year and Z last year).  Much of this was 5-7 years ago, and I get the sense the charters are better overseen now and I know the local elementary has had some rehab, So I hope things are different.  But, this experience left me with the same questions as the OP.  How much choice is too much, especially when your options to "trade up" are so constrained?[/quote]

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