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I don't have direct experience with DC schools, but you seem to be arguing that it's better to keep kids in incompetent schools than to admit they're incompetent and offer a better alternative.  [/quote]

But they're not.[/quote]

Your antecedent is unclear.  Are you saying that DC schools aren't incompetent or that charters aren't better.

My limited understanding is that when DC started charters, the DC public schools had a terrible reputation and were widely regarded as incompetent.  Am I wrong that they had severe problems at that time, or is it possible that the charter movement by providing competition and trying out different models of education has had a positive effect on the public schools?

If you're saying that charters aren't better, my understanding is that there is a wide variety of quality in charters.  Admittedly, some have been awful, but I think some are better than the public schools.  On DCUM, I've read people talking positively about different charters.

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Charter schools aren't better.

Are some charter schools better than some public schools? Yes. Are all charter schools better than all public schools? The purported big success in charter schools, New Orleans, got the results it did because the student body after Hurricane Katrina was different than the student body before. What's more, the "good" charter schools engaged in discriminatory student selection, and students had to travel great distances to get to school (which would be completely unacceptable in MCPS, or so I keep reading on DCUM).

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