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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few years ago, an EOTR DCPS elementary school was taken over by a charter--not just that the DCPS was closed and a charter used the building, but a regular school that had to take all in-bound kids was operated by a charter. The charter gave up. They weren't getting the test scores they wanted, and their model wasn't working with the kids they were getting and the churn throughout the year.

[b]Charters have the opportunity to have a student body where all the kids have a grownup that planned seven months ahead and filled out the lottery forms and enrollment paperwork. [/b]They can kick out kids who come late, miss school, misbehave, or show up without uniforms and materials. DCPS schools do not have that opportunity.[/quote]

Honestly this is the main point, and most of the time the charters *still* don't outperform DCPS w/r/t test scores.  But so many charter supporters ignore it entirely, or make these specious arguments about how "they take some IEPs too!" as if there's anything approaching an apples to apples comparison to be made.  But the truth is they just want to avoid at risk kids, and if their avoidance also drains money from the schools left behind to take care of those kids: so what?[/quote]

This is a really reasonable argument. My question to you is: what’s the alternative?

That’s not rhetorical. I’d really like to know what your ideas are for improving this. [/quote]

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