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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a school system cannot be run with such unreliable prediction of enrollment. this is a direct impact of charter schools. regardless of the benefits they bring, this is a direct impact of choice.[/quote]

I would call it a good thing.  Schools that cannot attract and retain students, don't deserve to be funded.

Blaming charters for DCPS's problems never made any sense to me.  It's not as if DCPS was doing brilliantly and then the charters came along and stole their thunder.  No, DCPS has been slugging along, getting worse each year for decades, and the charters have had the effect of forcing some necessary and long-overdue changes.  However, it may be too little, too late.

C'est la vie.  Not everything deserves to be on life support and live forever.  [/quote]

If schools are genuinely concerned about enrollment, then they need to work harder at finding ways to draw and retain students.  The old model of having it easy, and kids just being forced to go to school "x" for lack of any other options is long gone.  Time for public schools to stop playing the victim and either step up to the plate and compete for these students or cut bait and close down.[/quote]

And where are the kids supposed to go who don't give a XXXX or whose parents don't give a XXXX?  Who is going to work at those schools?  How about the kids who do care but parents just send them to their neighborhood school, what about them?  C'est la vie I guess, as long as they are not mixing with your Mary or Johnny life is good!!!![/quote]

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