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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You don't have to have kids in the schools to be a gentrifier, or even stay in the neighborhood. The PP was responding to someone's claim that gentrification came after the charter school movement.[/b]
I've lived here for 40 + years. People who had kids while they were in DC planned to either move out or go private. Then there were some families who decided to send their kids to the their IB elementary schools and save some cabbage and/or enjoy their awesome neighborhoods for a while longer. Then some more came and stayed and had some babies, and started looking at and starting charter schools.

Then people started looking at middle schools and feeder patterns, and all hell broke out with OOB and charter lotteries.[/quote]

But this is the whole point.  You don't have to have kids to be a gentrifier, but the tipping point for DC as a city/district that [b]middle class families are staying [/b]in in significant numbers and then [b]moving into in significant numbers [/b]has its seeds right after charter reform got going.  Before charters, as you just said yourself, families were moving or going private.  Those with the resources to go private may well still continue to go private after elementary, but with the recession and the overall turnaround that charters have brought DC, the tipping point for FAMILIES to stay has been the development of the charters.

If it wasn't charters, and families were staying and NOT moving or going private, then again, why did the "if only parents had had the chance to build that critical mass and change their neighborhood schools" not happen?  If you're saying families were here and staying, there was both time and opportunity.  Why didn't it happen?

And whichever version of the history you go with, the other question is still the same: at the time charters did get going, what was the alternative that would have brough this sea change of parent involvement and therefore saved neighborhood schools (and not doomed years and years of DCPS students who were failing where they were) instead of developing charters?[/quote]

NP here. The families who moved were replaced by MORE gentrifiers who eventually had kids. DC/charter founders noticed the trend (young gentrifiers move in, have kids, move out) and figured out a way to stop that from happening, i.e. with charter/oob lotteries. So, yes, it's possible for gentrification to be the moving force that began the charter trend.[/quote]

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