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[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. [b]Why would someone choose Cap City over Whittier? Or Lee over West? Or MV over Bruce Monroe?[/b] 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]

Are you being deliberately obtuse?  There are lots of reasons.  Logistical reasons.  Feeder pattern reasons.  Programmatic reasons.  The difficulty of getting into desirable DCPS schools OOB.

Cap City over Whitter because it offers access to a better middle and high school.  Or at least it did before the Coolidge/Wells renovation.

Lee is not anywhere near West so are people really choosing between them?  The answer is to get Montessori, and because you live closer to Lee, or because your number isn't good enough for West OOB.  You might more reasonably compare Lee with Langdon Montessori, but again, it's hard to get into Langdon's program OOB and even if you live IB, because it's such a small program.

MV over Bruce Monroe is because OOB English-Dominant students have zero chance of getting into Bruce-Monroe even with a great lottery number.  And until recently, for the guaranteed access to DCI.

Look, there are plenty of charters that people *don't* choose over DCPS.  SSMA, for example, has significant attrition to Seaton and other nearby DCPS.  Very few people chose to go to Harmony even when Langley's test scores were rock bottom low.  It's not like people think charters are automatically better.  Lots of DCPS schools have long PK3 waitlists.  But a lot of people find charters to be their best option and there are real reasons for that.  Pretending those reasons away won't help DCPS improve.[/quote]

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