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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you have entire areas that have been dysfunctional for decades and muliplte generations its the way to go
And before you call me racist there are plenty of rural white areas that have the same issues
It's concentrated levels of SES not race
 
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Very true, but the issue becomes how do we solve that issue? I feel we solve it by providing them with options that now they dont have; giving them opportunities, If they dont take advantage of it FINE its their loss, but the opportunity to succeed should be there regardless.[/quote]

Isn't that what the charter system in DC is trying to do?  Give parents another option to escape poor performing schools
No Child Left Behind was trying to do the same thing.  Giving parents a waiver to move if the school failed for multiple years.  
Thanks for focusing on trying to solve the isssue.  It's easy to point fingers and play the victim card instead of trying to fix the issue.[/quote]

I'm by no means anti-charter, but children in this country have a right to a public education. The system is broken for a lot of people, but I don't think that privatizing public education is the way to fix the problem of failing schools. My child attended a charter that we loved and now attends a Title 1 school in DC. I personally believe that charter schools should be limited to particular types of curriculum (Montessori, bilingual, Waldorf, etc.) or particular structures of school (boarding schools like SEED or Briya). I honestly think that schools like Inspired Teaching and Creative Minds should either be private schools or figure out a way to integrate with DCPS. They essentially both provide "traditional" education using a slightly different pedagogical model than other traditional schools use, but they are not doing anything that could not be accommodated within the public school system.

The reality is that not all children will be placed into "better" schools via the lottery. If people rely more and more on charters to escape the bad schools, the bad schools will stay bad because the people who ARE motivated to improve their circumstances will go elsewhere. [/quote]

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