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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me there's a serious battle afoot.  The privates, parochials and public schools all have their crosshairs on charters, because they see their students (and therefore, their funding) going over to charters in ever increasing numbers.  That would certainly explain the vitriol and FUD  campaign of vague, nonspecific and irrelevant accusations about Latin, BASIS and the others.[/quote]

This is silly, at least on the private school front. My children are at one of those always-talked-about private schools but we considered switching them to charter school recently for financial reasons. We were pretty open about it with families from school since everyone knew about our job situation at the time, and not one of the families we talked to had even heard of our lottery-pick charter schools, despite tons of press coverage and endless discussions on DCUM. I'm not saying that the charters aren't worth serious consideration, but the private school world is not even paying attention for the most part. I think the exceptions would be some of the less popular religious-based schools or the tiniest independent schools, but most of the latter are in the suburbs anyway. The notion that Sidwell, Georgetown Day, WIS, and the Cathedral schools will lose potential students to charter schools is nonsense. In fact, our children's school (again, rightly or wrongly) has people practically running each other over in an attempt to get in. There's no shortage of rich people in DC.

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They lost my kids.  We value living in a more urban/mixed use area of the city and as a result our neighborhood public school is not an option.  If we had not gotten into a well-regarded charter we would have gone private.  In fact, our social circle is almost entirely made up of families that can easily afford private school and are (for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to valuing racial and SES diversity in our children's schools and ease of commute) choosing charters instead.[/quote]

It is one thing to be able to say that" we have the money to afford private" and another thing to be admitted, have the money and choose not to go or, as this thread postulates: private school parents pulling their kids out of private and going charter. It is like saying that, well, I got into Harvard, Princeton and Yale, but I chose to go to the University of Maryland because, " I wanted more SES diversity" . It doesn't happen.

BTW, lot's of diversity in private schools in Washington; rich people of every color, nationality, political and sexuality persuasion.[/quote]

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