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[quote=Anonymous]Most interesting to me about charters, having seen our kids through elementary now, is that while they have the upside and opportunity to be more responsive to parents and student desires and needs, the level of institutional instability has surprised many and caused problems.

Charter families definitely seem to have expectations of DCPS and PCS and have higher expectations of charters. On several scores: testing, curriculum, responsiveness, teacher quality and flexibility. But also less publicly on other things like demographics and family and staff turnover.

My impression has been that PCS parents expect high test scores for their demographic of students and school leadership to not change while bending over backwards to do what parents want, and that they are prepared to vote with their feet at the next lottery, or earlier. It's a high wire act for the PCS leaders, partly one of their own creation because they are explicitly or implicitly supposed to be 'better' which means many things to many people, sometimes in contradictory ways.

I could say more, but wonder what others think.

I'd just say, being a DCPS parent in our EOTP ungentrified school (with a few obstinate white(ish) 'gentrifers' like us in it) is kind of like being a fan of the DMV. You want it to work well and serve everyone, but know in the back of your mind it's just another bureaucracy.[/quote]

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