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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

Why shouldn't parents be able to move their kids to a school that performs better?
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They do have that option.  It's called moving.  But instead of having the parents move, all you have done is move the school.  You have forced one school to close down and now that community no longer has a school and all of their kids are being bused to other schools.  You destroyed the sense of community that they had before (and that must count for something).  These things happened because of the testing and the punitive measures tied to it.  These were unfunded mandates that hurt poor communities even more.  Where are those kids now and how are they doing?  Better?  The same?  Worse?  Did you follow up on that?[/quote]

Neighborhood schools have always been a huge driver of school mediocrity because they never had to care about actually meeting student needs.  The only thing they had to do was throw the doors open and students would be required to show up no matter how good or bad the school is.  They were the only game in town and held the monopoly on education.  They never had to worry about competing for kids, they never had to worry about retaining kids, it was just "tough luck, take it or leave it."  What a lousy model.  That's how we ended up with privates, parochials, and now charters.  Traditional public schools have never understood what families actually want or care about.[/quote]

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