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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get what you're saying, though you're cloaking something politically inappropriate in the language of insanity.

What you mean is, create a school that seems impossibly irrelevant to a typical lower middle class black family looking for high quality version of a meat-and-potatoes elementary/middle education, which is your mainstream DC charter consumer, with the winking knowledge that this irrelevance will allow it to be an educational refuge for high income families.

It's been stated on this board many different ways before.  We know.[/quote]

[b]Problem with this logic is that the majority of charter schools in the district are the meat-and-potatoes high quality elementary/middle education programs that you suggest black, middle class families are looking for.  The percentage of AA students in charters is much higher than in DCPS.[/b]  Would you also say that those charters are trying to wink wink not appeal to white families?  How about Roots PCS or Thurgood Marshall are they purposefully trying to create a school culture that is meant to EXCLUDE others?

Perhaps these schools cultures and specializations should be looked at more as school cultures and specializations than as a secret wink wink oh so evil way to carve out educational "refuge"  unless that refuge happens to be from inadequate DCPS schools[/quote]

Sure, but your observation that there are charters that are composed specifically to serve poor kids doesn't change the fact that the top-rated charters that *aren't* composed specifically to serve poor kids succeed or fail to the extent that they manage to reduce the number of poor applicants.  (I'd like to see a cite for the assertion that the percentage of AA students in charters is "much higher" than DCPS, btw).

There are schools whose charter is to explicitly serve low-income kids. We're not talking about those charters. We're talking about charters that provide a challenging environment for mid- to upper-SES kids. Take Yu Ying for example: a) it takes an hour and 20 minutes to get there via public transportation from Anacostia; and b) Mandarin immersion provides that level of cultural alienation.

Finally, if you don't think that a school like KIPP doesn't signal to middle-class white families that they're not particularly desired, I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

From August 2013

"The overall picture in DC is that charter schools are disproportionately African-American. In a city that is just barely majority black, the percentage of black students in charter schools is 79%. In DCPS schools, the percentage is 69%."

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/19691/dcs-most-diverse-charter-schools/[/quote]

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