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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  It would be like it was before, with people not living in the city at all.

The only reason I am ok with our IB elementary, to which I devote copious time and money battling the incompetence of DCPS, is because I can probably go charter when the situation gets bad enough.  Otherwise I would have just bought a house in the burbs befote getting pregnant.[/quote]

I think the rate at which people would choose to remain in the city would have been much slower without charter schools. We went charter for our oldest, and would have moved to the suburbs or gone private if the choices were that or DCPS in our old neighborhood. That DCPS is now more popular with parents with younger kids than when we made that choice for our oldest. Now that more families are trying to find a way to stay, I do think that charters are preventing some DCPS schools from improving. But I'm not saying that we shouldn't have charters, just that there's an effect there. They still serve a need, but we need much stronger charter oversight.

In many EOTP neighborhoods, schools would be radically improved if residents sent their children to the DCPS instead of charters. But you can't force them to stay and try it, and who wants to be the first to send their kid to a not-yet-good school. But some parents are willing to try it as the DCPS elementaries gentrify. In a way, charters helped to keep families in the city long enough for both DCPS and charters to be an option.[/quote]

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