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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If DCPS supposedly has it so much better, why not just go to DCPS?  You have the right.[/quote]

How about just not discriminating against some children? Is that really so much to ask?[/quote]

If you think DCPS is a better deal, come on over. [/quote]

But that's the point: none of these schools are private.  All of them are public.  It's not about "a better deal" it's about a public service providing an appropriate education in equally appointed facilities.  At this point "separate but equal" would be a dream solution.  What we have is far inferior to that.  Doesn't even pretend to be equal.[/quote]

Don't lose sight of the fact that charter schools are not good for DCPS -- it adds extra burden and more limited resources with which DCPS must teach kids whose parents don't have the capacity to be involved attendance and homework parents.  There are costs to this setup for DCPS!

We have this system because Congress foisted it on DC.  But it was a way to solve education for some kids without actually doing anything to solve the challenges that DCPS faces (including, in addition to a population in need, lame management and bad choices by certain mayors...)

In this thread, there seems to be a lot of "I want mine!" going on while not worrying about who is getting hurt in the process. [/quote]

I don’t care about dcps at all. I care about students. All students in DC. DCPS does not do right by their students. They don’t provide the same opportunities that are offered in charters. No other school district in the area has lower standards than dcps. None. They are just not meeting the needs of students. [/quote]

I expect most of us here believe DCPS needs better leadership and more skilled management.

But you can't "care about students" and dismiss the students who will never find their way to charter schools.  You can't just write off DCPS if you "care about students."  You need to make sure that DCPS Central gets the 'renovation' it needs.[/quote]

No really don’t care about renovating dcps. I care about the current students in charters and current students in dcps. They should all have equal funding. And I would aggressively clean house at dcps starting with Ferabee (don’t care if I got his name spelled correctly).  [/quote]

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