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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:32  Since you like test scores so much, I would place a bet any day on a DCPS/Charter school kid from a HHI/highly educated family over a kid from Arlington with the same demographic background. As a PP said, talk to me about how the two systems compare when you have an actual head to head comparison.

Nobody on DCUM would send their kid to a "bad" school including those of us who live in the District. Contrary to your belief, you can get your kid into a good school in DC but you have to be [b]persistant[/b] and [b]patient[/b] because DC's schools are in the midst of a renaissance.  The current system is not for the faint-hearted but the options are getting better every year.

If you are going to send your kid to a publicly funded school in DC you have to put some work into the process. You can look at test scores and make a determination about a school based on that factor alone, but that's a lazy way to assess shools, particularly in DC.

Our neighborhood school's test scores were abysmal, however when I went to the school to visit, the facility was beautiful, the kids were sweet, the atmosphere was great and the teachers seemed very good.  The school had many ESL students and the test scores reflected the difficulty of getting those children up the learning curve. It was not a[b] "bad"[/b] school.  As a matter of fact, the parents there were happy and very proud of their school.

Be careful not to judge because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I'd bet that there is a Virginia parent at GDS that thinks people who send their kids to Arlington county schools are abusive  :).

Ultimately, through research and relentlessness, I was able to secure a spot at a school that turned out to be a better fit.  However, my kids would have been fine at our neighborhood school.  There was no boogey man there.

Many of us District parents have done a lot of research on DC schools and have dug beneath the numbers. I made an educated and informed decision when I placed my children in their current public charter.   It is obvious that you believe  Arlington schools are better.  That's fine.  Please move there if you haven't already.  You will be much happier.  [b]In the meantime, stop trying to push the idea that no DC school compares to the schools in Arlington.  [/b]

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I push no such thing. I am not the OP.  I am a random poster pointing out what seemed like a salient point to me:

Someone upthread said that the advantage of DCPS over Arlington is that children have choices in form of charters and OOB.  It seemed appropriate to me to point out that a) lottery-based options are not real options since they are a dice roll, and b) they cannot be legitimately called an advantage over Arlington because ACPS, too, has many lottery-based options.  What objection can there be to these fact-based statements? I am not trashing DCPS wholesale, nor praising Arlington above others. I am pointing out what I see as a flaw in some poster's argument. [/quote]

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