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You're right, PP.  Effective charter schools will lure proactive parents away from DCPS, accelerating its decline.

You suggest that that would be a bad thing.  Perhaps it's a good thing, however.  Perhaps all DC children should be educated by charter schools that cater to their needs.  Perhaps there's nothing worth saving in DCPS.[/quote]

DCPS is cooperating with changing all the schools into charters, not because it will be good for all the children.  It will be good (or at least OK) for the kids who are doing well already and were doing well all along in schools like Deal, with a high concentration of educated, involved parents live nearby.

It will be bad for the kids with uneducated, less involved parents -- just as it always has been.  DCPS management is cooperating with the change to charters to save jobs for its own staff (in the new charter system); not to help children.  They gave up on that a couple of years ago when the massive cheating was revealed.

Instead of preserving or building up neighborhood schools, parents who can will be criss-crossing around town and parents who can't or won't will be stuck, as usual, with inferior schools - charter schools.

The Rhee-Henderson reformers were wrong about just needing effective teachers to raise scores, but rather than admit it, they took the option of cooperating with the  demise of their own system.[/quote]

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