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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCPS is doing a great job making progress considering that, unlike charters, they can't IN ANY way "cherry pick" students. Or "counsel them out". [/quote]

Out-of-boundary students can be sent back to their in-boundary school at the principal's discretion. Some principals use that power to "cherry pick" and "counsel out" students.[/quote]

[b]Technically, yes but at the elementary level this is rarely, if ever, done[/b]. Ive heard of it at Wilson in really egregious cases.

Dcps schools cannot cherry pick like the charters, not at all, especially with the new lottery system, its all very tightly controlled.[/quote]

Negative! It is done to students from Southeast who are attending schools OOB. Typically it is the result of attendance issues. The principal will use the reasoning that if they are having trouble getting to school (or getting to school on time) then you should be at their neighborhood school. And while on the surface it might sound logical there are sometimes circumstances that are extenuating. [/quote]

NO, that is not cherry-picking like charters because in the end it is another DCPS school that has to take them in.....yes, it may be one individual DCPS school that is doing this but they end up going to another one. So as a system, the comment "DCPS schools cannot cherry pick like the charters..." is correct. [/quote]

Except only a zealot like yourself would think about this in terms of DCPS vs Charter. People looking for quality school options care about the school they are at (or to which they will go). They don't care about your public policy statement. So I think what the other person was trying to say is that cherry picking is something in which all good schools might engage, not just Charter schools.  HRCS may do it because they want to maintain a standard and drive away "undesirable" kids, LRCS are unlikely to do so as they don't have a waitlist.  Same thing at DCPS schools. An underenrolled school isn't going to drive away kids; Ludlow Taylor might. (Relax people, just an example of a school that used to take lots of OOB kids and because of the test scores and neighborhood growth they don't need to anymore.)

Most parents (low income, high income, middle income) are too busy living their lives to engage in all or none zealotry.  I'm thrilled you have the time and energy to do so. [/quote]

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