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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son attends one of the supposedly best charter schools in DC, but reading independently,writing slogans and designing T-shirts is not what we had in mind when we enrolled him. His education is being utterly shortchanged.[/quote]

Then let me hypothesize that you just didn't do your homework. School choice, whether you like it or not (I only moderately do), is not about enrolling one's child in the "supposedly best charter school" but about going to check for yourself what any particular school is about, public, charter, or private if applicable. Before you advocate for yet another charter school to suck away talent and parental engagement, why don't you check where what you have in mind is at work. I'm convinced that what you'll find is that many traditional public schools do precisely what you (and I) are looking for: they plain and simply teach, no two ways about it. They'll use cards and dice to drive home probabilities or leaf through a newspaper to sharpen non-fictional reading skills, but that is not all they do. That's what they do in support of not instead of "direct teaching", as you call it.[/quote]

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