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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces.  They will need luck.[/quote]

I just don't think it's going to be that many. There aren't so many additional private school slots and selling your house is a big deal. If dcps announced school would be hybrid in the fall, people might figure alternative plans, but right now it looks plausible enough that there will be full time school and if there isn't going to be, they won't say so until the last minute. I do think we'll see a lot more political support for school vouchers. [/quote]

Last year, more people left DC than any other city except for NYC and San Francisco and a few others. I'm sure the number of people leaving is accelerating and we just don't see it yet because there is such a lag in the data. But if you can't count on your kid be able to go to school like a normal kid -- and you can't -- then people are going to bolt. I think the city's school budget is going to be in for a world of hurt for years to come. Teachers who forced schools to remain so closed will come to regret their obstinance when they're in the unemployment line.  [/quote]

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