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And by the way, not only do charters not serve the role bolded above, they are not MEANT to serve that role.  Charters were the best alternative anyone could come up with for educating students who were getting left behind by a public school system that was unable in some instances, and unwilling in others, to change.  They were never meant to be "your friendly neighborhood school, for neighborhood kids".  They were meant to be an alternative for kids whose neighborhood schools should have been closed ages ago to get an education.  [/quote]
If charters were meant to serve the students who were left behind by a public school system, or whose IB schools should have been closed ages ago, then they should only be open to students assigned to IB schools performing under a certain standard.

I am not, by the way, in favor of this or anything else, I am just pointing out that for your argument to work, charters must specifically exclude kids assigned to good IB schools.[/quote]

No, actually, they don't only need to be open to the kids with awful IB schools.  If I were designing the system, yes, I'd probably ave a minimum % low income the schools would need to be, which I realize would affect outcomes somewhat for schools like Yu Ying.  But in fact, the 30 ish % lw income kids who do get into Yu Ying are getting an education that almost no low income kids in the US are getting right now.  And schools like Cap City, Stokes and EL Haynes that are majority low income, those kids are also getting excellent educations they didn't have a prayer at before.

I've never heard/read the real charter innovators (I.e. the founders of the successful DC Charters or members of DCPCS Board) say charters were the answer for 100% of under served kids.  But if DCPS was going to piss away most of the money anyway and get rotten outcomes, would it really have been better to allow that indefinitely?  No one is stopping DCPS from getting its act together, not even today.  But why is it a bad thing that more than a thousand DC low income kids now get way better than they would have gotten?  [/quote]

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