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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an out-there idea, but why doesn't arlington invite some charters to operate? Then it would be their issue to find the space and create compelling curricula for parents to want to send their kids there? Seems that it would take some burden off the overcrowded schools, and help parents pick educations that better fit their needs. [/quote]

NO!

From my perspective I am very thankful that we do not have charter schools in Arlington, and I hope we never do. Charter schools divert taxpayer funds away from the schools and children that need those funds most, and in many cases charter schools fuel disparities in socioeconomic diversity across school systems all while enriching private companies and individuals. Additionally,  if charter schools were introduced without first addressing socioeconomic disparity at the neighborhood schools, the likelihood is that the neighborhood schools would become less diverse and poverty even more concentrated in a handful of already disadvantaged neighborhoods schools.

Neighborhood schools, while they may have advantages, also have many disadvantages, including the very large disadvantage of the difficulty in addressing school capacity imbalances. So if we want neighborhood schools, we also have to accept that boundaries can and do change.

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absolutely 100% agree.[/quote]

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