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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize that if everyone went to charters they'd be as bad as DCPS; because Charters don't take everyone they are able to work with the motivated, well-behaved, high achievers, and hard workers. Without DCPS you wouldn't have successful Charters!!!![/quote]

Not so. Charters are successful largely because they are freed from the dysfunctional central office mayhem of dcps. They can spend budget how they like, hire and fire who they like, limit class sizes, set whatever curriculum it school hours that work for their students and on and on.  They can make decisions and implement quickly without interference. Makes them flexible and responsive to their students needs.  There is a real difference in structure not just students[/quote]

You forgot to add that charters are successful because they can kick out the rowdy, disruptive, unmotivated students.  Well, they can kick them out after the head count.

Signed,

A Charter Parent. [/quote]
What does DCPS do with its  rowdy, disruptive, unmotivated students?[/quote]

Actually, what DCPS already does with a good number of the most difficult of these children is send them to Options Public Charter School.  Yup, you got it, a charter school focused on kids with behavioral and academic problems.

What do they do with them?  Basically nothing.  Look the other way.  Ignore the bad behavior, the rowdiness, the talking in class.  Take the kids who never do their homework and flunk every test and pass them on to the next grade even though they didn't learn anything and are now EVEN MORE unprepared for the next grade.  Shrug when kids show up for class late, skip school, hang out in the bathroom.  Don't call the cops when kids violently assault each other.  That's what they do in DCPS.  Ignore the problems and pass them through the system and then let them be society's problem in adulthood.[/quote][/quote]

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