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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a bunch of pessimists. Rather than rooting for SWS or any school to fail, you could also look at SWS as a potential contributor to a revamped Hill middle school feeder pattern. In a few years Van Ness will reopen, and between Brent, Maury, Tyler SI, Watkins and SWS you could have the core of a decent middle school in the not too distant future.   ... and if DCPS can't figure it out, most of the families at these schools are pretty resourceful and will find good alternatives, whether that's charters, private, parochial, OOB or moving. DCPS needs to learn the importance of retaining families for continuity, and they also need to do one or more of the following: 1)effectively lobby government against [b]charters poaching their students in 5th grade -- MS charters offer 5th grade and up for this express purpose[/b] -- require 5th grade programs to offer PK-5 as well; or 2) offer competitive 5th grade and up middle school options (PK-8, 5-8, etc) -- in other words, level the playing field; 3) provide better guaranteed feeder options to retain students through ES -- uncertainty fuels market volatility. [/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]What is your evidence for asserting this nefarious behavior?[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Oh please! -- you're not serious, are you?[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]PP again-- who said "nefarious" anyway -- good business model exploiting the dysfunctionality of the DC public school system.  If I ran a charter where space is at a premium and I wanted to lock in the greatest demand middle school would be the way to go (maybe HS too).  I'd want to reach families who are fed up with their traditional public shool options, and I'd want to have enough time to inculcate them to whatever curriculum my charter is introducing.  For the MS+, is there even a single exception to this model?[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]What you offer is conjecture and not evidence.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]do you actually have anything useful to say?  sorry if dcum isn't really the go to source of qualitative analysis -- it's a lot of opinion and commentary -- much like your loaded suggestion with the word "nefarious". Perhaps you should consult Brookings or Urban Institute.  Do you have a point, or are you just a charter parent booster looking to troll on a topic that doesn't really relate to you?  Let me guess -- Yu Ying?[/quote]
East of the Park parents have left their DCPS elementary schools pre-5th grade for decades, and it is still the case today.  The only thing different now is that charters are an option unavailable ten years ago.  When kids hit 2nd 3rd and 4th their parents want a better school with a more promising feeder pattern, and they look towards schools like Eaton and Murch that feed into Deal.  Other parents leave DCPS for privates and some leave DC altogether.  This is not a new phenomenon.

There is a lack of historical context to assert that charters, which opened five years ago, unfairly recruit.  It is wrong to claim all/most families stay enrolled in East of the Park DCPS elementary schools through 5th - that neither was nor is the case.

The reason I say nefarious is that you used the word poaching.  (POACHING – “Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or is under official protection.”)
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