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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i feel so sad for the families that are lured in based on the rumors and false pictures painted during the open houses.

MV (and maybe other charters) need to be held to account for making false claims. During the MV open house, I remember an elaborate slide show of photos from field trips to Rock Creek Park (though I think they haven't been there in many many years), and our tour guide, when asked what the teacher turnover rate was, said something along the lines of "teachers are very happy and rarely leave." At the Bancroft DCPS open house when someone asked an identical question, the principal pulled out the data and said "86%"

it makes it so hard for parents to get a clear idea of what kind of school they are entering when the open houses are full of exaggerations and falsehoods... then you end up with someone like OP feeling so devasted. I have so many friends who entered MV with such high hopes and they are ALL gone now, and left very disgusted and disappointed.

How can this school be held to account?[/quote]

At what point are parents as consumers responsible for their choices? In the example you gave where MV sidestepped the question about teacher retention, parents need to notice that just like they would when buying insurance or any other good or service. If a school has a reputation of losing teachers and having unrelenting bullying problems and their answers don't suggest a plan to address those matters, but instead pretend they don't exist then that in and of itself is a warning sign. None of this is to suggest that OP is responsible for her kid being bullied or to make excuses for the school's apparent failure to address the issue. My argument however is that, at least as regards MV, the fact that these issues persist and they don't even acknowledge them is a warning sign unto itself. An open house is a marketing event. What parent doesn't know that going in?  [/quote]

+10000 I can't understand how such a large portion of a population of highly educated people are not more skeptical of the lack of transparency and naked marketing behind most of these charter schools. [/quote]

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