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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Public Schools failed these neighborhoods for many years.  Charters stepped in to fill gaps where DC was unwilling to do the hard work.   The only reason why Petworth, Logan etc is a thing is because families had the option of sending their children to a charter.

Would you send your kid to Thomson elementary school if there was 5th grader who shared coke with classmates?   That is what happened 10 years ago.

There is a long history of what Charters did to make DC what it is now.

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Exactly. You can thank charter schools for part of the hot DC real estate market in recent decades.[/quote]

Yes. And many young families stay and end up using their neighborhood schools because they saw other families, with slightly older kids, using a charter school.  Meanwhile, public revenue is up, schools get funded at a higher level, there is a larger constituency advocating for better public schooling, and families that have historically been stuck in god-awful DCPS schools have an option for something better, for free. And nearly half of the city’s school children have taken advantage of those options. That tells you something.

[b]Argue for excellent oversight, for limits on new charters, for better leadership at DCPS but stfu with the scapegoating of charters in DC. They are part of the solution. DCPS was, and largely is, the problem that needs attention[/b].[/quote]
This. 100%. Though many charters aren't any better than many DCPS schools, and many DCPS schools are as good as or much better than charters. It's not so easy to generalize.[/quote]

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