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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to have this one out mostly to challenge my own biases. It’s my believe based on my experience that DCPS is desegregating, though slowly, as residential patterns change. But I worry about whether the option of choosing charters as a way out of your neighborhood schools is slowing this desegregation. Or not. In my opinion it does lead to at least to some ability-based sorting - “creaming” by choice or whatever you want to call it, and that this retards fuller integration. I’d like to have others’ opinions and see if my biases are off. And whether there are actual choices out there or trends coming in the future. [/quote]

Have you considered researching this instead of thinking you're the first snowflake to wonder?  Because the data is pretty clear.  The only reason middle class families have stayed in DC at all is because of charters.  And the only reason DCPS has improved at all is because of charters.  So if your local DCPS isn't keeping up LAMB and Latin and Yu Ying?  Boo hoo, but it's their own fault.  They still have more money and less trust.  The only reason they have students at all is because there are some families that have stayed in DC even after losing the lottery.[/quote]

That's not true.  DCPS schools are working too. Garrison, Brent, Cooke, Seaton, Ross, Marie Reed, Cleveland, Francis-Stevens, etc are all doing a great job keeping inbounds middle class families in DC.  Pre-K in DCPS has done a lot to keep young families in DC.

Charters help keep families in the District.  Pre-K helps keep families in the District.  Rising elementary schools with great principals and great teachers help keep families in the District.  It's like the New Deal - lots of factors help so it's ok to try them simultaneously.[/quote]

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