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[quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem is that DCPS, OSSE and city council leaders don't seem to be interested in the collective input of CH public school parents on the MS development front. In the decade that my children have been in DCPS, I don't remember being given the chance to complete a single survey about my public MS preferences, from any source (our school, DCPS HQ, OSSE etc.), even during the 2014 boundary review.

If most of the white Ward 6 elementary school families--at Watkins, Brent, SWS, Maury etc.--really are bolting from the traditional public school system to charters, you'd think that DCPS leaders would want to find out why. You'd also think that Ward 6 and the council members on the Committee on Ed would push ed leaders to have the appropriate research done and to respond to the findings.  None of this seems to be happening, surely because UMC parents of rising public MS students aren't a large enough slice of the electoral pie in DC, or even in Ward 6, to bother making a thoughtful effort to keep most of our children in neighborhood schools after 4th grade.  
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