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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the places you want to live that have good schools are that expensive.  There are places with good schools that are much more affordable, they just have longer commutes, the houses may be smaller, you are not living in the city. etc.

It is fine to be outraged, I am outraged, we should all be outraged by the state of schools.  In each post, I have tried to acknowledge this fact.  This is about resentment at a school that is actually doing well because the kids that are in-boundary are, for the most part, financially well off.

My question goes to the motivation of posters on this board that are angry Deal middle school is doing well and think that it is the result of favoritism.  Are they really outraged on behalf of people with no choices or on behalf of themselves, because they will have to move.  I tried for charters and it turns out I have no luck.  I was hoping to be able to move anywhere in the city if I had my kids in a charter I trusted.  Am I annoyed, yes.  Can I sit on this board and say it is not fair to have a great charter school available to educate a few students when the rest of us cannot get in.  Not really, because the people who started the well performing charters are doing something to help educate kids in this city.  That is more than I am doing and I applaud them even though I do not personally benefit from it.  The people running Deal have done something to benefit the group of kids they are tasked with educating, why should they be torn down for it?

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No PP, I think you miss the point.  No one is begrudging Deal for its accomplishments.  The problem is that the city has failed to replicate Deal.  The city has failed to replicate Deal.  Your answer is move into the Deal boundaries or move into the outer burbs and commute.  Why, are not the people who pay taxes in DC entitled to the same educational opportunities as your children.  Are you suggesting that because we have options to move to the outer burbs or are fortunate to obtain lottery slots we should not complain because substandard educational opportunities are provided for our inbound schools.  BTW--Although my child is attending a selective charter, I volunteer at both my child's school of choice as well as the neighborhood dysfunctional inbound school.  I am outraged for the schools stuck at the school who were not so lucky.  And one more thing, although I do not begrudge Deal, I do think there is favortism.  But heck, this is America and money and affluence always rule the day.  [/quote]

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