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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No doubt the dc system is insanely dysfunctional. The system is full of sinking ships, and the charters are rickety lifeboats, indeed. Look at the kids at the school. Will they grow up to be stellar kids? Maybe - but doubt it is due to the school. What's sad is how a city full of vital, intelligent, and go-getting parents are sitting back and lapping up the spoiled milk they're trying to feed us. Charters were the Republican dream answer to failing public schools. You take resources away from the public schools, in the form of funding as well (and more importantly) parent led change. What you do with charters is you take the power that in-bounds could harness (the better in the better-or-for-worse involved with gentrification) and you fritter it away piecemeal across the city. There is no concentration of like-minded parents behind the in-bounds school. Instead, you're left with the parents who either don't give a damn or can't give a damn. Many of the parents are struggling for survival, not strugling to thrive like the rest of us. Every single parent among the list of parents we put together initially interested in getting behind our local in-bounds went the charter route. Every single one. And we're not talking about the worst of the worst school by any stretch.

Let's face it, the charters have done what they are supposed to have done. The nail in the coffin of public education.

R.I.P. [/quote]
I understand the sentiment, but what were public schools doing before charters came on the scene? You say this like they were on the way to success and big bad charters came and broke them. Weren't public schools failing for quite some time?  It's not like there are no alternatives to parent-led change.  Parents have fled the city or went private for years before charters were launched. What makes you think that dynamic was about to change?[/quote]

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