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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm impressed that some of you are just waking up to understanding that nothing you say will do anything to move your charter admin's decisions.[/quote]

Not at all surprised by that. Just never expected the administration to be so out of step with mainstream, progressive thinking.[/quote]

+ 100.  I think our ED is otherwise smart and strategic but will never understand the extreme and out of touch Covid policies.[/quote]

It's become the test for which schools have a strong leader and which have a weakling.[/quote]

It has.  But it shouldn’t take much strength to follow DCPS, the CDC, and the rest of America (and world for that matter…).  This is some crazy bubble we are in.[/quote]

Independence means making your own decisions. What’s the point if they just follow DCPS?[/quote]

Again:  Surely there are limits in the idea about independence?  Should, say, a charter be able to get public funds if they teach that the earth is flat?  How about a punishment system that involves paddling?

The idea about charters was about different styles of *education*, not public health.[/quote]

If you think, here in DC, the idea is still about different styles of education, you haven’t been paying attention. That was a long time ago. Now it’s about autonomy - freedom from mayoral control, standardized testing, unions, bureaucracy.

Your charter is it’s (your) own LEA. So go tell them what you want and see how nimble they can be. 
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before we go condemning charters … I’d love to see some real data on charters vs DCPS on covid. How quickly they got kids back in person, how well they recovered from learning loss, how well they did virtual. my guess is that charters may actually do better than DCPS overall, even with some far outliers on masks. [/quote]

They may have done better overall - could one really do worse than DCPS? The point here is that now chargers are being criticized - by their own parents - for not following DCPS. Do you want independence or not? If so, why aren’t you talking to your school and your fellow parents about this?[/quote]

Just, stop.  Charters have restrictions.  They can’t, for example, not have vaccine mandates.  They apparently have to do the city’s covid vaccine mandate.  Apparently sometimes they are independent and sometimes not.  Just go be a charter-hater elsewhere and stop derailing all charter threads.[/quote]

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