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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]

Oh puh-leeze!!
There are thousands of kids placed in charters by parents who are notproactive" in the least. They choose a charter because it's convenient, because their friends or neighbors' kids go there, because it's close to daycare, work, grandma's etc., because they consider it their "neighborhood" school, because they like the idea of language immersion (but have absolutely no intention of supporting it or exposing their kids to the culture), and certainly, if they do come and it's a terrible fit or their kid has massive special needs that are incompatible with the mission of the charter (e.g., the charter is inquiry or expeditionary-based and their kid is incapable of working in groups) they won't do what's best for their child and seek a better fit.
Don't kid yourself that the publics are a dumping ground.[/quote]

How does this observation contradict my point, PP?  If the charters lure away both the proactive parents and the parents who choose charters for convenience, DCPS will still suffer from declining enrollment.   That's even better.  There's little worth saving at DCPS.  [/quote]

It's kind of comical.  The DCPS supporters and charter bashers keep coming to these threads trying to trash charters and make their case, yet keep ending up accidentally making the case FOR charters.  There's an old saying...  "when you find yourself deep in a hole, stop digging."[/quote]

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