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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [b] If it wasn't for our charter, we would have moved or sent DC to private school.[/b][/quote]

The ability to stay in the city and send your child to a charter is what has fueled the demographic shift in DC the last ten years.  With viable, diverse, exciting, publicly funded options for school, the "need" to live in Ward 3 was wiped out.  Keep 'em coming, charter board.[/quote]

Not true. Look what happened in Capitol Hill with a group of parents? They wanted to stay in the city so they met in someone's living room, put their muscle behind the local PUBLIC school, and made it work. Fast forward some years and try to repeat the experiment, factoring the charters that have opened up. Which came first, the chicken (parents who wanted to stay in the city) or the egg (better schools they demanded?)

Charters opened up and competed with the inbounds. Now lots of new people moving in to say, bloomingdale. What does the local school look like? When the HIll experienced this type of gentrification, the parents didnt get picked off by dozens of options. They had to choose between moving away, private, or invigorating the local schools.

Don't get me wrong, DCPS are screwed. NCLB was a death blow to an already really bad system. But we had the choice to fix or build a bunch of rickety lifeboats. Bottoms up! [/quote]

The Hill parents working to improve Watkins and Brent was more than 10 years ago, if I have my history right. And in the time since charters have strengthened, especially Two Rivers which pulls many Hill kids, and Watkins has declined: how many high SES kids with involved parents stay at Watkins or Brent past 3rd or 4th grade?  They've mostly peeled off to charters or privates. This fueled by choice, wonderful choice, in public education.  If their upper grades continue to not make the grade, so to speak, we will see the trickle down effect of attrition in the schools and then so much for your decade-old fairy tale of rallying around a Hill neighborhood school. [/quote]

Bloomingdale HAS no local school. It is one of the closed down by Michelle Rhee. The ANC Commissioner then ran a campaign that ensured no school could ever locate there by having the school building torn down. It's a lovely park now.[/quote]

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