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[quote=Anonymous]I see what you're saying, and I don't like the post 4th grade exodus from Hardy, SH and Jefferson Academy feeders one bit.  But, I don't see potential for the peeling-off to end, not unless the new Chancellor, Antwan Wilson, comes out hard against it with the strong backing of the City Council Committee on Ed.  That seems really unlikely - what mechanism could the Chancellor use to force MS charters to start at 6th grade?   I predict more peeling off in the future, as new charters, maybe a second Latin campus etc. perpetuate it.

The MS charters are pitching a product that sells like hot cakes- a path to 12th grade in schools high SES parents, a growing cohort in most of the city wards, are comfortable with, even excited about.  Reigning them in would be like herding cats.  Why should the starting-at-5th-grade MS charters move their entry year forward? To be civic-minded?  What incentive do they have to help by-right middle schools, their competitors, attract students?  None that I see. [/quote]

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