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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are great points and well in line with what's needed to implement the Ward 6 Middle School Plan (I disagree with PP, a legitimate and public process went into it*). 
However, I find the middle school tension with charter schools poorly framed. Calling it "poaching" is not only unwise but also misses the point. Rather, it should be framed as negatively affecting choice for parents and children, leading to suboptimal outcomes. For example, families that aren't in-boundary for a school they might actually prefer (e.g. Stuart-Hobson) but are not (yet) confident in their in-boundary option (Eliot-Hine, Jefferson) are forced to hedge their bets with charters rather than waiting out their lottery outcome for their true preference. Some parents and kids at Basis or Latin my truly have preferred an OOB shot at Stuart-Hobson but never got a chance to try. Sure, you can say, they can wait it out at Basis or Latin and then try for 6th but that's no good, neither for the kids nor the schools. That's the nature of suboptimal outcomes in a poorly implemented school choice model.

*"The rest of us" problem is endemic in democratic processes. I for one am one of the "rest of us" who wouldn't have gone to war with Iraq. And I'm the "rest of us" who wouldn't have raised a stink over the Hines expansion at Eastern Market (unlike the well-funded and vocal part of the community living right next to it). Not to mention "the rest of us" find all kinds of decisions made by past generations any place we move or find ourselves newly inserted in, be it as newly minted homeowners, as parents etc. Everyone is "the rest of us" in a lot of things.[/quote]

Posting it at Ted's Bulletin isn't notice of a meeting.[/quote]

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