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[quote=Anonymous]From what I understand, it takes a lot of work to start and run a charter school.  You have to develop curriculum, a budget, have staff and faculty in place, have students, work with district administration, etc.  If there are people dedicated enough to Hebrew immersion that they are willing to take on this task, and enough students in DC who are interested enough in this educational model that they will attend (thus providing the $3k/kid or whatever a charter school gets from the district to function), well good for them.  At least they are a) doing something more productive for the district as a whole than bitching on an anonymous internet message board and b) putting their tax dollars to work.

So, going with the argument that I have seen on page after page after page, what if more students are from tenleytown vs barry farms?  Dont families in Upper NW pay taxes also? Isnt that where the $3k per kid comes from?  Again--why is this a problem?

Because the idealists in the group want either a charter school that is specifically focused on the east-of-the-river population or no charter school at all.  Why is this? Is a Hebrew school  taking the "spot" of a school that would otherwise better serve this population?  Im going to say that no, no it is not.  Its founders, staff, etc.  are not going to decide that if they can't have the Hebrew school they want, they are going to start a vocationally-focused school instead.  And that will leave us where we are today--with more students who want charter schools than there are charter schools available today.

DC has the capacity for more charter schools.  There just arent enough people who are willing/able to put in the time and effort to found one.  The posters who commented on a potential Arabic-language charter school?  Awesome idea--start one!  Another hospitality focused school? Start one!  Chinese is going to be the language that business is conducted in moving forward--is Yin Yang enough?  Perhaps one Chinese-language school isn't enough. Would someone like to start a second?

That is how it works with the DC Charter school system.  Citizens who are dedicated to the education of the citizens of the city give up their time to help educate the city's children.  Charter schools aren't magic entities that appear to educate your children, or the children of the poor underpriveleged FARMS kids.

And hey--if someone wants to start a Washington Gaelic school and can get past the bureaucratic hurdles to bring it to fruition and find enough kids to fill the seats...well then Erin go Bragh![/quote]

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