Reply to Time to Stop Counting on Charters

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Time to Stop Counting on Charters"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, somebody gets in, because there are tons of people with kids in charter schools, including me.  I understand your frustration, and yes, the odds are low but just like the Powerball somebody's number is going to come up.  It just sucks when it isn't yours.  The fact that lots of people don't get in doesn't mean that charters are a waste of time.  We all play the hand we're dealt.  If I hadn't gotten a slot, we simply would have left our child in daycare until K and then enrolled him at a Catholic school.[/quote]

Yeah!  2 extra years of daycare - because you know, everyone can just pay for that.  [/quote]

I totally agree with you guys who are frustrated with the blase "Well, you just do what you have to do.  Move, Catholic or private school." attitude, as if those are real choices for all (or even most) famlies.

The thing that still frustrates me though, is that balance between those who are savvy and strategic about schools for their kids but until their kids were actually school-aged, never did anything towards improving the schools that exist, vs. those who care about access overall and in whatever way they could (and there are ways EVERYONE can contribute to local schools, no matter how little time or money you have) and who have done what they can to improve local schools,whether they ended up at them or not.

I think we (parents looking for slots in 2013-2014) are dealing with a weird in-between period, where there are enough promising schools to want in, but as OP and others have pointed out, not enough great schools have been improved (from bad schools) or developed new to satisfy the demand.  Unfortunately, with changing demographics in DC, the kids of families who have been stuck with awful choices for generations will probably not be able to afford staying long enough to benefit from the eventual improvement of most DC schools.  I think THAT is something that is grossly unfair.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics