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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The whole point of charters is that they are forced to compete for students (and thus funding) and that this competitive pressure is what drives the charters to perform. [/quote]

No. The whole point of charters is not to have a gladiatorial death match, competing with local schools for students. The point of charters SHOULD BE to provide alternative methods of learning, because not every child thrives in the same environment. Another point of charters SHOULD be to bring communities together, by drawing students from all over the city. Those are positive goals. COMPETITION FOR FUNDING is bullshit. And not the point of education.

Now, granted, I've been known to rant myself on how DCPS seems to like lighting money on fire to build underground parking garages, but charters are no better in those circumstances. It's amazing how well-appointed so many of them are. [/quote]

Please tell us which charters are so well-appointed.  I have never been in a charter that has anything like any of the newly built or rehabbed DCPS buildings.[/quote]

Yu Ying. [/quote]

Yu Ying is nice. They bought that building, which was not a surplussed DCPS building. Meridian is another nice one. There are way more crappy ones, though.[/quote]

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