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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize that if everyone went to charters they'd be as bad as DCPS; because Charters don't take everyone they are able to work with the motivated, well-behaved, high achievers, and hard workers. Without DCPS you wouldn't have successful Charters!!!![/quote]

Not so. Charters are successful largely because they are freed from the dysfunctional central office mayhem of dcps. They can spend budget how they like, hire and fire who they like, limit class sizes, set whatever curriculum it school hours that work for their students and on and on.  They can make decisions and implement quickly without interference. Makes them flexible and responsive to their students needs.  There is a real difference in structure not just students[/quote]

True. But if DCPS failed to exist who would work with the lost, the hopeless, the drug addicted, the slow learners, the unmotivated, etc. They would also have to end up on Charters too, eventually they would be as dysfunctional as DCPS. When you have to educate everyone together it is a lost cause, there is only so much differentiation a classroom teacher can do. With "No Child Left Behind", schools are assessed on the schools total test scores, thus the school is constantly in flux trying new methods imposed from central office, rehiring and hiring teachers/principals, and the constant rotation of students from other DCPS schools. When schools are allowed to dismiss a student and send them to another school, they have to take one of their dysfunctional students back.  You can't have 100% success with all of the students all of the the times. To hold DCPS to this standard is helping no one. [/quote]

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