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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Name me ONE traditional DCPS school that includes grades 5-8 that does anything CLOSE to what Basis does with their students.  I will give you Deal MS.  Now name another one.  Waiting.......

When students in DCPS have access to quality across the board, then I will stop advocating for Charters that provide that.  Meanwhile, kids educations are being squandered in traditional dcps programs by the hundreds and parents are sick and tired of waiting for that dysfunctional, cynical, ineffective time-wasting refuse pile of a bureaucracy to get their act together.  Don't blame charter schools for sucking away "talent and parental engagement".  Blame traditional  DCPS for driving them away[/quote]

What about:

Hardy & Stuart Hobson
Latin
Howard
KIPP[/quote]

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