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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look nobody on here cares about the bottom charters.  They are not the ones people DCUM are even considering, just like they don’t consider the bottom DCPS schools either.

It’s pretty pointless to make a sweeping statement about how one is overall better than the other and that can also be arguable.  No parent is going to be looking at that lens.  Instead, families on here are looking at what is the best school for their kid.  And that is school specific not a whole system.

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We should all care about the bottom charters because they are serving children so poorly. With public funds comes public accountability. Millions is being spent on schools that accomplish little, and are passed along by the PCSB with extensions and discretion and "flexibility" to avoid political blowback and embarrassment, until they collapse of their own accord. Those students could be educated better, or at least not worse and more cost-effectively, at the many better-performing charters and DCPS, and the system as a whole would function better if funds were not devoted to propping up failing schools.

The fundamental concept of charter schools is that sustained low performance = closure. When charter schools do well, it's a "movement". When they do poorly, it's "let's not talk about it". Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan, as the saying goes.[/quote]

Ok, but a lot of those schools are tiny. Let's talk about schools like Roosevelt High School, a school that's been around for nearly 100 years, which has 1000 students, and which the city has spend a quarter *billion* dollars renovating, and still almost no one there is at grade level on anything. [/quote]

KIPP DC College Preparatory (charter) has just as many kids and also isn’t showing results.

The things is you mistakenly believe it’s about hating charters as a whole. It is the systemic issues they cause. Whether you want to believe it or not charters can find ways to kick students out after count day of course and do.

DCPS can never refuse kids not really ever kick them out.

And you have to be a fool to think renovations will cause a school to be successful. But this still doesn’t mean that these schools don’t deserve it, you obviously have never seen the horrible mice, roach, and cooling/heating issues -as well as an overall decrepit environment some of these SE schools especially have. [/quote]

DCPS can expel kids, and it can also place them in special programs it operates, and private special needs schools. Just FYI. [/quote]

Take a look at the rates of expulsion, I believe it was zero last year.

Self-contained is not a great solution and certainly not one for all kids.

There are no private DCPS schools lol. Those are charters. Unless you mean River Terrace, the horrible special education school.

DCPS also cannot pay to send every sped kid to private, that is only after a decade or more of litigation or the like.[/quote]

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