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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, Charter school leadership and families in DC like the balance and advocate for the two school system. DCPS has been noncommittal but mostly accepting of charter schools.

However a few neighborhood school "reformers" are vocal about getting rid of charter schools and we all have to listen to them?  Is that what I'm getting from this?

What is wrong with the way it works now - my neighbor school is not successful. It wasn't 20 years ago it won't be 20 years from now. I choose charter. What is your problem with that?  [/quote]

Totally agree with the desirability for both options (the so-called moderate approach according to an earlier PP).

Have to disagree that DCPS has been noncommittal or mostly accepting of charter schools. To wit, they have fought tooth and nail against charters getting surplus DCPS facilities and to adjustments to the funding formula (hence the current Focus lawsuit).

My kids are entering middle and high school. There are no viable neighborhood school options for them today. We could have left the city, but instead went charter and the city retained our tax revenue all these years. The city has an interest in keeping families in the District regardless of which public schools we utilize.[/quote]

The city would be better off financially if it were full of single professionals who pay lots of taxes,but use few services like schools, DPR, and EMTs.[/quote]

This. I am sick of self-righteous people threatening to revoke their tax dollars. If you were really so rich, you would be IB for Ward 3 schools or in private. The fact that you are at a charter pretty much ensures that you are middle class at most. You probably make a smaller net contribution to city revenue than a girlfriend and boyfriend 27 year old childless corporate law couple living in a condo and eating out every night. You want to move to the burbs, great, you want to stay, great. Get off the high horse. 
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