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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people who think the gentrification of DC even had a prayer relying on "neighborhood schools" slay me.

Avoiding the neighborhood schools in DC is what built Montgomery County at DC's expense.

Charter schools rescued this city. Now it's just a bonus that some of us can live in cool neighborhoods, have better school options than Ward 3, and still have a smaller mortgage. [/quote]

Yeah, I agree with this.  The following sentence is particularly misguided:

[quote]They're ensuring that when professional families start moving into a community, they focus on safety, police presence, and even the appearance of the local parks and green spaces, but they pay lip service only to the schools while jumping onto a rickety lifeboat in the form of charters. [/quote]

The underlying assumption that all those professional families would have moved to those same neighborhoods if the only choices were crappy IB DCPS or private schools is laughable.  Those neighborhoods became an option because of the possibility that there could be a public education option beyone the local DCPS (that didn't involve driving across the park to go to an OOB school every morning - not that that is an option anymore).   [/quote]

You are so right.  That's what is both laughable and mind-numbing about the PP (or PPs) who keeps lamenting the effects the evil charters have had on parent involvement in local schools.  People who see things that way always get really quiet when you ask them what the alternative to charters should have been that would have saved the neighborhood schools (i.e. something that there wasn't time to see if it worked before charters were born as a different solution).  And again, if charters are such a "rickety lifeboat", why are you trying to find a way to not only get your kid in, but reform the charters so you have a shot at a heldover K spot?  "Ooooh charters are so evil.  Oooooh they're making me put my kid in PS/PK to have a shot.  Oooooooh they should change so they hold K spots and accomodate my parenting priorities.  But Ooooooh they're so evil they should have never existed in the first place, because they're ruining the neighborhood schools that I won't send my kid to.  I want my kid in a popular charter dagnabbit!"  It would be funny if there weren't so many people in the world who do this: damn an institution/systemic change, rewrite history to support their damnation, and all the while trying despeartely to hold their place in that damned institution.[/quote]

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