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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point about audience is important, OP. If your goal in establishing this school is to [b]serve children who could really use it--low SES kids without access to healthy eating resources or role models, etc[/b]--then great. It could work and actually change lives. But if your goal is to attract families like yours (assumption that you're educated, etc) I don't think your idea will fly. So ask yourself where your heart is at on this first. [/quote]

I'm not getting this argument.  [b]A specialized charter is only okay if it is for lower-SES students?  Higher SES families need not apply?[/b][/quote]

NP here. Of course not. But charters are PUBLIC schools and the vast majority of public school children in DC are lower SES. If you can't serve the public at large, you shouldn't get a charter for a public school and receive public funds.
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You may also ask yourself why a vast majority of public school kids are lower ses and if that might not be the case if the public schools were any good.  It is a circular argument:  kids in public schools are poor so we need to set up systems that serve poor kids any programs that will serve and attract people other than the poor are therefore a waste of money.  See the problem? Unless you are one of the people who wants to become like a third world country where the public schools really are only for the poor and the middle/upper class won't touch them[/quote]

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