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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Looks like we got it.  I am a Basis parent who is all in favor of attrition, who wants a better education for dcs than she had herself at a DC private, and believes Basis is actually better than privates or any other schools in the area.  And we are done.  Sibling preference and goes thru 12th grade.  My kids will be there at the end, and they will be in good company.  Especially having recently read one of the threads about trying to get kids into gifted and talented programs in Fairfax etc, so glad we are done.  Only upset about giving up the opportunity for a larger house outside of DC, but completely worth the sacrifice.  Call me out on my intellectual elitism, my selfishness, etc, but not on my honesty.[/quote]

From my perspective, I have no problem with your goals in a vacuum, but feel that it is a corruption of the role of Charter schools. Selective schools should either be created by DCPS or left in the realm of private schools. Charters are supposed to serve all comers and provide opportunities to those who local schools are unsatisfactory. They are not supposed to save elite families the cost of private school tuition.

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I'm really puzzled by this statement, Jeff, because I don't think you actually mean this.  Do you have a problem with St. Coletta's, the charter that serves an exclusively special-needs population?  Do you have a problem with Options, one of the oldest charters in the city, which serves a high-risk student body population that has not been able to succeed in traditional schools?  What about Roots?  From the very beginning of the charter school movement, charters have been developed, approved and operated to serve specific sub-sets of the city school age population.  And yet you really seem only to object when the specific sub-set is better educated or more advanced than the average.  [/quote]

Well, honestly I don't know much about those other schools but I would object if they are routinely letting people fall out of their programs as a way of improving them. Charters already get a deserved-in-many-cases reputation for dumping their problem students as soon as the cut-off date passes and letting the neighborhood schools deal with them. This is something that I believe should be corrected. Obviously, I'm going to object when that actually becomes a selling point for a school.

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