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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Because we should be fixing the schools that we already have, rather than undermining them with new openings.  [/quote]

What in the recent (~25 year) history of DCPS makes you think that they can magically "fix" these schools?

[quote=Anonymous] Because it is a waste of money to operate so many half-empty schools.  [/quote]

Then close the failing DCPS schools and redirect the funds to better support students. Propping up failing, under-enrolled schools is not a strategy.

[quote=Anonymous]  Because EOTR is already getting Bard and Latin II.  [/quote]

Hooray! It's about time Wards 7 & 8 get the top-performing schools they deserve. We should be celebrating this and celebrating KIPP taking Ferebee-Hope.[/quote]

DCPS has improved significantly at the elementary and middle school level in the past 25 years and I believe those gains will filter up, along with the one-star money and Connected Schols program.

DCPS cannot close Anacostia and Ballou unless the kids have somewhere to go.  Are the charters volunteering to take all those kids, all grades, all special needs, any day of the year?  I doubt it.  They would have a much harder time claiming to be "successful" if they had to do the work DCPS does.

There are plenty of failing charters the PCSB could focus on improving, rather than letting them malinger for 5 years at a time and then disrupting all the kids with closure.  [/quote]

I absolutely think they should close failing charters. KIPP does not have any failing charters. And, yes, KIPP is volunteering to take ALL of the kids who currently go to Anacostia and Ballou... if they apply to KIPP through the lottery. Yes, you need backup schools for kids that don't want KIPP or that it doesn't work for, but actually eliminating one of Anacostia and Ballou is absolutely a goal.[/quote]

"Doesn't work out" meaning that KIPP pushes them out for being difficult to deal with, putting the hard work on DCPS instead.  Sorry but everyonr has the right to an education within a reasonable commute so you need both schools.  Try to merge them and you run into neighborhood rivalry violence.

Taking all kids through the lottery is not the same thing at all.  It is much, much easier.  A cop-out to pretend it is the same thing.[/quote]

I'm not saying it's the *same* thing, but I think you're over differentiating the populations. KIPP's push out rates aren't that much different than many other schools'. It's not like Anacostia and Ballou aren't actually pushing out WAY more kids... They just push out by doing nothing when the kid has attendance rates hovering around 25%. ACTUALLY. Ballou and Anacostia are only a 15 minute drive apart w/ Thurgood Marshall in between. The extra commute for any kid if one of Ballou or Anacostia closed (Anacostia likely, since it has less than half as many kids) would be totally within reason for high school students in my mind.[/quote]

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