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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more people try to say it’s racist and racism as the overwhelming reason why families leave poorly performing title 1 schools instead of acknowledging that there are many issues at these schools and the dysfunctional system that is DCPS, the more you will drive away all families.

Minority who grew up poor and been there.

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Drive them where though? They’re not going to Bethesda or Ward 3, they’re going to a charter that also has issues and possibly even lower test scores. Plenty of families at JKLM schools can handle DCPS, and not all EOTP schools are dysfunctional. Why would someone choose Cap City over Whittier? Or Lee over West? Or MV over Bruce Monroe? You’re trading one set of issues for another, not avoiding issues by opting into some significantly better option. So why do people choose those schools then, if not for the demographics? Honest question because I truly don’t understand what these “best choices for my family” decisions are based on.[/quote]

You’ve taken a deep dive into some anti-charter talking points—they are loud and they have an agenda that is not about your child.  As a pp suggested, why don’t you listen carefully, with an open mind and no pre-formed assumptions. You are getting answers, they just don’t fit your narrative.[/quote]

Many anti-charter talking points are valid. Most of the city’s charters don’t serve students any better than their neighborhood DCPS schools, [b]and most of the ones that do have sizeable populations of UMC families. [/b]My kids attend a Title 1 DCPS and while I’m not a fan, at all, of Central Office, we love our school’s admin and are happy to support traditional public schools over semi-privatized education initiatives. [/quote]

Hence why some (not all!) UMC families may reasonably prefer such charters, all things being equal.  We should of course be willing to call out that charters don’t serve lower-SES kids any better than DCPS, but that’s not of practical concern to an UMC family (of any race) when deciding between comparable charters vs DCPS schools.  At any rate, white (which is a crude proxy for UMC in DC) kids test about the same at all schools in DC, according to GreatSchools. Of course, some schools don’t have enough white kids to report disaggregated scores for white kids.  In fact, many schools where most of the black kids are far below grade level, will have almost all white kids at grade level, and sizable chunks above grade level.  So, once again, all things being (somewhat) equal, what is so objectionable about opting for a school with a critical mass of likely academic peers (which may only be 15-20% in some cases, so we aren’t necessarily talking about [i]predominately[/i] high SES schools).[/quote]

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