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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]If the charters hold the line on quality and set expectations high instead of watering the curriculum down and passing student deficiencies on from grade to grade without ever remedying them, then white families will remain there rather than fleeing to privates and the burbs.  That criticality increases with each grade.[/quote]

The implication of this message, as well as the one following it, that only white families care about quality education and are economically successful is not consistent with the reality that I see day-to-day in Washington, DC (including at the charter school one of our children attends). 
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Actually the implication is that whites are more likely to have the option of voting with their feet and going elsewhere if they don't think the schools are going to hold up their end of the bargain.  At some point, public schools have to come to grips with the basic realization that they aren't "entitled to the students by default" nor, and more importantly, they aren't "entitled to the money by default".

Public schools have had that attitude for decades (and not just in DC, but in many districts throughout the nation), and that's what's led to the decline in quality, the culture of underperforming and so on.

The money is tied to census demographics, and if the public schools act as though they don't have to do anything special to retain students, then they will end up driving many (taxpaying) families out, to other districts, and will end up losing money as a result.  Public schools need to wake up and smell the coffee...  If they want those students, they have work at it - they have to EARN them and RETAIN them.[/quote]

Interesting rant. But, assuming public schools have this attitude, why doesn't it have to change with regard to non-white families who are also interested in quality education and have the financial resources to vote with their feet?
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