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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Vim and vigor" is quite misguided, totally on the wrong track.  It's parents like me who should be doing the suing.  The DC school system does not  meet the needs of talented young achievers.  As such, those talented and hardworking students are being "excluded" and the DC school system is therefore "not following the law" unless those needs are met.  All the more reason why a school like Basis IS needed - to meet the unmet needs elsewhere in the DC system.  The DC school system should be required to support those needs, by law.[/quote]

Totally agree :mrgreen: [/quote]

talk to the folks in central office, then who are totally focused on getting the scores of kids who are not proficient.

They are sure it can be done, irrespective of any family deficits, with the right teachers and the right evaluation system.  It hasn't come close to working in five years, but still they persist.

As for BASIS - I hope it succeeds, but we must remember - it is a public school and must abide by the laws that apply to all citizens.  Parents who aren't willing to or can't pay the price for private schools, can't expect laws to be bent for their children.

If the gentrifying parents sent their kids to their neighborhood schools, they'd be just as good as the ward 3 schools are right now.  You don't hear ward 3 parents demanding special privileges from the public schools or demanding quality charters.  They don't need them - their real estate choices are serving them well.[/quote]

a.) what DCPS central office does is what DCPS central office does, and what BASIS does is what BASIS does.

b.) ALL public schools must abide by the laws, whether BASIS, DCPS, et cetera.  If DCPS were abiding by the laws, and that means, meeting the needs of *all* students, regardless of whether they can or can't afford private schools, whether or not they are special needs, gifted and talented, or whatever.   Clearly DCPS is not meeting that need, which is driving the huge explosion in charters.  So before we go carrying on about what needs Charters are or aren't meeting, stop and go back and look at the core problem - it's DCPS.  It's not about "gentrifying parents" and which schools they send their kids to.  Gentrifying parents sending their kids to neighborhood schools isn't going to magically change DCPS, as everything else will just stay the same, unless change happens elsewhere also. 
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