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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families that drop out of the DCPS system and choose to attend charters should lose their feeder rights to attend Wilson[b].

Because the schools are so popular, I - as a pratical matter -  lose my right to attend Basis or Latin after 5th grade.  Let's take the same approach to Wilson, which is equally as popular.

This would reduce Wilson overcrowding, and have the beneficial impact of enticing a few more IB families to stay with Deal or Hardy instead of heading to charters - so it would make those two schools - Hardy in particular - stronger.
[/quote]there isn't an issue of feeder rights, it's a matter of home address
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There is an issue of feeder rights - Wilson is overcrowded because too many families have feeder rights or rights to attend Wilson by address.   So one solution to this is to eliminate feeder rights or geographic rights to Wilson once a student attends a charter that continues through high school.  That charter - which they get to choose - becomes their school of right.   Every high school student would retain a matter-of-right school; for some it would be the charter that their parents chose; for others, it would be Wilson.   [/quote]well, instituting that would require a whole rewrite of the law. As it stands, a parent can decide at any time and for any reason to enroll their child in the public school assigned by boundary, and I'm pretty sure that right is not going to be removed by a policy change. You also don't account for the fact that charters can fold or be shut down, and charters don't start and stop at the same transition points as DCPS[/quote]

Yes, it would require a rewrite of the law - but that does not make it a bad idea.    It solves a problem - the regular public schools are at a persistent disadvantage because students can drop out of a charter and go back to the public school at any time.  So the regular public schools get the "washouts" and the charters cherry pick.   Let's fix this problem - make the charters educate all students, just like the regular public schools do.   And let parents make the choice if they want feeder/geogrpahic rights at the charter school or at the regular public school.[/quote]

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