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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait. Isn't Basis located on top of two metro lines in the center of the city?  Aren't they running free buses around town as well as the city buses that must pass right nearby?   Car pools?  People aroumd the world bust their butts to get where a good free education is being offered.  Let's get creative here.[/quote]

BASIS and other charter schools are counting on parents busting their butts to travel to get a good free education.   Meanwhile people who can afford to live across the street from Deal  can preserve their butts and people who can't afford transportation time or costs are stuck with deteriorating neighborhood schools that are being replaced with charters.  [/quote]

It is not random that Deal is a highly regarded school.  It is good BECAUSE it is filled with people who can afford the high cost of living in that neighborhood.  There is not yet a concentration of wealth elsewhere in the city that can fill a comprehensive muddle school with a similar percentage of well off neighborhood kids.  Sooooo...they are cincentrating themsleves in charter schools and somewhat at Hardy and Stuart Hobson.  [b]DCPS sucks in general and can only rise above horrible if the school is filled with relatively affluent kids and families who make up the slack. [/b]

Also, there are HUNDREDS of kids who cross the city to attend Deal and its feeder elementary schools. This is a phenomenon that must be decades old at this point.

It is the same story in any big city.  Check out kids who criss cross NYC to get to all those specialized programs.  [/quote]

I agree with most of your post except for what I've highlighted above.

The suggestion that schools magically being fixed by just adding more affluent students really doesn't make sense on its face.  It's basically the same kind of logic that you can make hazardous waste go away by dumping it into a river.  "The solution to pollution is dilution" - no, sorry, it doesn't work that way.  The problem's still there, it's just mixed in and as a result is a bit more well hidden.  It's a round-about approach, hiding the underachievers and problem students rather than dealing with the issue head-on - it's just sweeping it under the carpet.[/quote]

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