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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Jeff I respect your opinion a lot.  Please tell me (even though it's a little off topic, but hey, this is DCUM!) what would be a way to implement neighborhood preference in "a very specific manner" where it would "actually be a good thing"?  As you know, the bad things are: 1) it does nothing to improve any of the underperforming schools; 2) cuts off access to those residents of low income neighborhoods to speciality schools not in their neighborhoods (language immersion, montessori, etc); and 3) the point already made above about language immersion schools and limiting that much more the chances for native speakers if the school is not in a native speaking community.  What is the good you see possible and how do you see implementing to serve a good that is bigger than these bads?[/quote]

If all the following conditions applied:

1) The focus of the charter was relatively general. Not a language immersion program, for instance;
2) The school was located in an underprivileged neighborhood;
3) The school was well-settled in that location;
4) There were no good DCPS choices in that neighborhood;
6) The policy was specific to this school and other schools meeting similar criteria;

Then, neighborhood preference might make sense. The intent would not to be replace a DCPS, but to fill a need that DCPS is not addressing. Also, I'm writing this when I was supposed to be out the door 5 minutes ago. So, I retain my right to revise and extend and/or totally deny that I wrote his message  :D 
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