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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The attrition rate for DCPS schools is in excess of 40%.  No charter has numbers anywhere near that bad.[/quote]

Not to automatically doubt your figure, but where is it from? The school my younger son attends certainly is nowhere near that number. From recent meetings I recall it's about 4% (virtually 0% if new arrivals are accounted for). If 40% is the average and our case at the lower end, then there would be schools with more like 60 or 70% attrition or even 100% to make the math work. If you're figure is indeed from somewhere and not entirely fabricated, then maybe it takes into account school closings (=100% attrition)?

Over all I don't think it's useful to keep bashing the 10% attrition rate. I find that indeed something to be expected for a start-up. And knowing a little who headed its way, they may have a "hard to please" audience. The selectivity of the attrition is a little more worrisome and the inability of the school to make up for it, where it's supposedly the place everyone wants to go. I'm also troubled by the fact that the PCSB cited its management for not being forthcoming with requested data (see link posted previously).[/quote]

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