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This take is ridiculous. If his kids went to a charter would that also disqualify him? It's nonsensical.

I am a DCPS parent but I'm a pragmatist, not a purist. I know that if we could afford private we'd heavily consider it, especially because we live on the East side and our MS/HS options are really limited. We have multiple friends with kids in privates, including people on financial aid who don't make a ton of money but decided it was the right place for their kids. Also fully half of our friends with kids in private are black, and I will fully acknowledge that black families often have different educational concerns than white families and reasons for sending their kids to private that go way beyond elitism -- the public school system fails a lot of black kids. So no I'm not going to sit here and judge McDuffie for sending his kids to what is considered to be a very good school. Oh no, he cares about his kids and sought the best possible education for them? What a jerk

+1 I am a product of public schools, my kids are in public schools, my mom was a public school teacher. But if we could easily afford GDS for two kids I am not going to pretend I'd reject the idea out of hand purely due to solidarity or something. And I don't think it's the case that sending your kids to private (or charter) schools means you don't care about improving public schools.[/quote]

+1.  and this is why JLG's hostility to charters is so terrible.  There are many families who elected to stay in DC and utilize public schools as long as they could precisely because of the charter school sector.  It is not a racial issue but a socio-economic one.  Middle class families who have the ability to vote with their feet will do so if they have no educational options for their kids.  25 years ago when I lived on the Hill, families moved away when their kids were school age.  Over several decades, families stayed and invested in their neighborhood elementaries, largely because they then had growing charter opportunities for middle and high school.    All of JLG's economic and education policies seem determined to take DC back to the days of the early 90s---when DC was a city of the extremely wealthy, a lot of low income, and an ever-declining middle class.  Do I think Kenyan will be a great mayor like Tony Williams was?  Probably not.  But JLG is dangerous.  [/quote]

Duffie is dangerous. No experience with public schools for his own kids.

And charters are still public, not as bad as GDS. I’m sure you’ll make up more thoughts that belong in a toilet to disparage JLG. But Duff doesn’t know his stuff. He does know how to give kick backs to family members. You must be his cousin. Or perhaps you work for one of the lobbyists. [/quote]

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