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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would be an absolute nightmare and would bar many low income students from quality education and exposure to diversity.  Only way a ward 8 kid would have at a good school would be of/when there are decent charters that move to that ward (aside from Kipp) and even then what diversity would that kid be exposed to?  The city is doing toouch to bend over backwards to cater to middle class and upper middle class families.  Shame on you Kwame Brown.[/quote]

I think you have this wrong.  I don't have an opinion at the moment, but the idea of having a neighborhood preference for some charter schools I think comes out of the school facilities report that showed exactly where there is a lack of " high quality seats" in specific areas of the city.  This is where the dcps schools are failing miserably ( I.e. not the wealthier neighborhoods ).  So the idea I believe is to allow charter schools with a proven track record to move into those areas and offer some high quality seats.  At the same time, the special programming/record of success of the school would supposedly attract or retain middle class students at that school rather than having them travel across the city in search of a quality seat.

This proposal as I see it is not about anyone catering to the middle class, but about bringing higher quality options ( that dcps can't seem to offer ) to lower income neighborhoods[/quote]

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