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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep thinking that we're going to see an increase in students at our school as people leave privates to save some $. Charters don't have to manage a swell of kids- so will they be able to keep class sizes down and look relatively more appealing?[/quote]

Maybe next year.  This year, parents hit by the financial fallout considering charter school bargains over privates probably didn't think to apply in the lottery, at least not for elementary programs.  The MySchoolDC deadlines came and went before covid crisis hit DC.[/quote]

I don’t think OP wrote clearly. OP is asking if charters will look more popular because of private students now enrolling in their IB DCPS schools, leading to overcrowding there. Since charters only accept a set number and don’t need to enroll all IB students, they can control class sizes, theoretically making them more appealing. [/quote]

Non-charters have class size limits too. If they need more space they add another class. And I would say the size of the class and the school doesn't have much to do with the quality of the education.  [/quote]

And before you jump on that, please look at places like Janney. Compare that to any charter school you can find. The scores are higher, the teacher retention is stellar. There are fewer serious inequities the children are dealing with, which takes away from the day-to-day capacity to teach and learn. Most of these kids are coming from higher SES families, most who are college educated and who have prioritized education from the day their kids were born. This isn't the case at the charters.  [/quote]

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