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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vote here!

Definitely the latter camp here. We go to a WOTP DCPS but live in ward 1. I'm pretty sure if all the high SES kids went to our IB school, we'd have a great walkable option.

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The irony that you make this about charters, when you go to another school OOB.

Maybe say, get rid of the OOB lottery.  Why should you get to go to a WOTP school when you don't live there?  [/quote]

+1. What a great example of hypocresy.

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OP here and I agree we are hypocritices. But that still doesn't preclue us from wishing we could go to our neighborhood school, so let me clarify that I think both the OOB process and charters are harming some neighborhood schools that could really stand on their own if motivated/connected/afraid-of-poors families had no choice but to attend them.[/quote]

Depriving people of choices is never a recipe for success.   :roll: [/quote]

Please quit with the BS "afraid of poors"--we have 50 years of research that shows the poverty/achievement gap is huge and real and almost always correlates for major behaviroal issues. Its a well known fact that schools with more than 30% FARMS hurt both high and low SES kids.  Its not fear, its informed parents trying to do the right thing for their kid. I am amazed at the number of parents who are willing to sacrifice their kids well being, education etc just to make a point about public schools.[/quote]

I'm not sure whom you are speaking to, but you are high as a kite and crazy as a loon if you think depriving people of choices for their lives, their children, their educations, their diets, their friends, their livelihoods (must I go on?) is any formula for anything other than failure.

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