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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, rather than thinking "How can the system try to coerce people to attend a school they are unhappy with", you should think "How can the school improve performance and parent satisfaction?" Because that's the real problem here. And as your child gets older and you have more experiences, you too will have experiences that make you want to leave, or feel that you must leave because the down side of staying is too much.

Stop thinking about critical mass and demographics so much. Those things are not enough. As evidenced by CMI and Two Rivers. This idea wouldn't solve your problem anyway. Even if everyone did stay, it will still be a low performance school if the teaching isn't high quality.[/quote]

NP and I agree with your sentiment but do think charters are different than DCPS in terms of ability to attract high quality teachers if the school gets families to stay longer.  DCPS teachers are more likely to transfer schools within the system because of pay and pension benefits.  So if a school could get more community buy in, it will attract teachers of higher quality.  Charters don’t have the same pull.[/quote]

Well yes, you can have some impact on teacher quality (which isn't the same thing as retention and is sometimes the opposite of retention).

Charters have other kinds of pull for teachers. If DCPS were really that much a better deal, charters would have no good teachers at all, because DCPS would hire them. Some teachers really like the flexibility, the specific model of their school, or things like a fixed class size and not having to take new kids mid-year. Some teachers aren't fully licensed so DCPS won't take them. There Re lots of reasons.[/quote]

The pull for some charters is that behavior is better.  But if you offered most charter teachers positions at top DCPS schools, they’d take them.[/quote]

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