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How to make them successful, screen out all the low-performing kids and those with troubling behaviors. I mean how students with ankle bracelets do you see at Charter schools, or other extreme behavioral issues. Go into any DCPS school that is low-performing and you see an abundance along with a huge population of low-literate students. Go to any large DCPS non-application high school during lunch-time and before a holiday. There a lot police on standby, does that happen at a Charter. It's the kids STUPID!!!![/quote]

I agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. To the extent charter schools are more successful than DCPS, it is at least partly because they can choose the "best" kids. Kids are only in charter schools if their parents have enough time/literacy/attention to enter them in the lottery in the first place, which means that low-performing DCPSs are stuck with the kids with the least involved/educated parents.

Also, charter schools have much more flexibility about expelling/counseling out kids with low test scores/poor behavior, meaning that DCPS is stuck with them: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-schools-insider/post/charter-schools-suspend-expel-students-at-widely-varying-rates/2012/09/21/8b72ffa0-03f2-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html[/quote]

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