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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the other thing. When I talk to real people in real life, most of the families using charters feel they're doing okay in a flawed system. There are definitely some families who just love their charters, but most just feel like they were surfing and found an acceptable wave to ride, not that they took advantage of an AWESOME system. So the people who are rah rah charters on these boards seem to represent a minority of the people I see in real life. The people in real life acknowledge that yes, the charters DID take some juice away from DCPS. Of course it did and you'd be so silly not to acknowledge it. [b]Whether or not you want to admit it, gentrification effected change on the school system, NOT the other way around.[/b] There were two paths to take. One is admittedly a hard choice - banding together and making the local school work. Especially when the local school seemed unsafe, NOBODY is blaming you for taking the charter option. However, you simply must admit that it made it harder for the rest of us, the ones without the same options, to improve the local schools. There are not enough high performing charters to accommodate every child in DC at ANY age, not just ps3 and pk4. It is musical chairs. It's the titanic. And there aren't enough lifeboats. Sadly, the best and brightest - all of you calling me names, etc on this list probably included, - who are in the lifeboats now. So you're not focused on fixing the ship. You think the lifeboats ARE the ship now. But they're small. They're too few. They're hard to get into. They're not good enough or big enough to solve the problem.

Is it so hard to at least say yes, this is much more complex than just jumping into a charter and calling it a day? That maybe you could consider giving your local schools another look, maybe you could consider voting for politicians who will put local schools on equal footing with charters, maybe you can think about policies to help the kids who are NEVER going to get into your charter school, because their parents either can't or won't put in the effort to get the kids there? The answer is not more charters within driving distances to your neighborhood.

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The bolded part is the part that is fiction.  You really are going to have to explain how you draw that conclusion.  Where is your evidence that people started moving back to DC/staying in DC and gentrifying neighborhoods like Brookland, Columbia Heights, H Street near Trinidad, Mount Pleasant, all BEFORE the charter movement got well underway?  There is some development that has definitely fueled further development, but even most of the development has followed AFTER gentrification started to really get into swing.

School reform was the true beginning of noticeable gentrification.  Show in detail (i.e. what specific neighborhoods did gentrification start in) BEFORE charters got into a real swing? [/quote]

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