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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This really gets at why DC is in the charter school business, at the real nitty gritty level.  Is it for diversity in educational approach or residential diversity?

[b]Are charter schools supposed to be a chance for all to benefit from superior education through a unique educational approach?[/b]

If so, why would DC citizens want a school that would strongly interest a narrow population of relatively young Jewish parents and be of mild interest to the rest of the City, presuming that non-Jewish parents might be interested based essentially on a stereotype that Jewish people are well-educated and inculcate children at home and at school with a drive to succeed and that, by association, these non-Jewish children would succeed by going to school with Jewish children.

[b]Or are they supposed to be a way for middle class parents in gentrifying areas to stay in the City while allowing their darling children to get an education better than that offered at their long-failing neighborhood scho

ols?[/b]

If this is the case, it is something that is hard to admit, but something that many parents in DC strive to find.  Don't like Noyes?  Put your kid in Langdon if you can.  Don't like Bell?  Cap City could be a good choice. Everybody reading these boards is probably interested in playing this game to some degree.

In some sense, strivers always seek to separate themselves from those they know are mired in a cycle of failure.  But everyone should think about whether charter schools exist just to create a set of "striver class" schools so that kids who are better prepared because they are well cared for, read to, educated at home, and prepared to learn do not have to be surrounded by children beset by the plagues of poverty - poor attention spans, experiences of quick resort to violence, lack of school preparation, tumultous home lives, etc.[/quote]

And YOU do what?  Leave your child in a high poverty school in a system that has proven they don't know how to successfully educate them?  Did you make that choice or do you just want everyone else to do it?, By the way, I am not talking elementary school, I am asking you where your child goes/ will go for a secondary education. I have a feeling you are a big hypocrite.[/quote]

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