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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No I’m saying that charters are well meaning and poor kids are uneducable. Any time anyone tries to explain why the children of poor people consistently fail at education, they say it’s impossible to fix, that the kids need to be surrounded by massive support in order to mitigate a lifetime of trauma. I agree. The resources? Not coming. They just aren’t. The charters aren’t offering massive trauma reduction. They are just another set of schools.

So what do you get? Uneducated kids and a second system to do it that ALSO doesn’t solve their education problems. And then schools with too few kids to get any money. Hence they close.

The tragedy im getting at is that NO ONE has found the way to teach the traumatized intergenerational poor to become good standardized test takers, which is what this board cares about, right? Those PARCC 5s?

So why try with two school systems instead of one?

And if you want to say BASIS or KIPP, tell me what you think would happen if we took the Sousa or Anacostia HS student body and just sent them there. They wouldn’t turn out much better. This sucks! Why do we have charters if the outcomes are the same? We’re just offering a pressure valve that lets parent anger flow around the problem that these kids are growing up to be dummies. Another generation that can’t get into the mainstream economy and make first world incomes.

Is there anybody that can prepare the traumatized poor for college, real college not UDC for janitorial or haircare, without basically stealing them from their families and turning them individually into brainwashed suburbanites? I haven’t seen it. And it really sucks. [/quote]

Wrong.  There are charters that help kids do better like KIPP with the same SES students that are at Sousa and Anacostia.  The data is out there.

These charters are not crimpled by the damn inefficient bureaucracy that is DCPS.  They also place more demands on students than the low expectations of DCPS.  They also don’t tolerate the behavior crap that happens in DCPS and have consequences for such misbehavior.

There were no charters back in the day 25-30 years ago and DCPS was the lowest and worst performing school district in the country.  Charters offers some families who care options and a way out.  Charters have absolutely improved the overall educational landscape in this city and have kept more families here who otherwise would move.

I suggest you talk to the old timers who were here before charters became a thing.[/quote]

You are acting like SES is the only relevant factor to compare KIPP to Sousa etc.  Even if SES is the same the student bodies are not.  To get into KIPP you need a family to know enough and care enough to get into the lottery.  The bar isn’t high but is there.  Then you need to conform to KIPP’s behavior rules or be expelled/counseled out.  Sousa needs to welcome new students the whole year if they recently enter the district, get pushed out of their previous school etc.  This can be very disruptive.  After the year starts KIPP is not required to accept anyone else to minimize disruption.  This can help a charter seem like they actually do a better job of educating when they simply are getting a slightly easier population to educate.  This then leaves an even harder population to educate at the by right DCPS.[/quote]

Well whose fault is that? It’s DCPS’s fault. DCPS could institute & enforce a more rigorous behavioral policy and send kids who don’t want to study to alternative schools. DCPS could identify gifted kids or even just average kids with potential and put them on tracks or in G&T programs. Every sincle school EOTR no matter how “bad” has a small nucleus of kids getting 3s and 4s on PARCC, even a few 5s. DCPS could focus on cultivating and uplifting them, but steadfastly refuses. The only thing DCPS offers to prepare and support talented, disadvantaged kids is Banneker, and that probably comes too late for many. And of course DCPS would not permit a Banneker to be founded today. Result - unknown numbers of talented kids in W7 and 8 go without the educations they deserve unless their parents can get them to a charter or move to PG Co (which has a TAG program). [/quote]

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