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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a competitive school market place - and that's what we have in DC, public, private, charter - advertisement and promises come with the game (annual budget = number of students * per pupil allotment). Mostly, that's a good thing because schools have to market themselves, brand, convince people and prove they're worth staying and getting involved. An established school doesn't really have an interest in badly misrepresenting its core offerings. A start-up is in a different boat. Its success critically depends on some wishful thinking. Exaggerated and hypothetical promises are a way to attract the required numbers of students to actually follow through, eventually. "Leave" (opt out, vote with your feet, shop elsewhere) is really the option the market offers you, with the idea that the bad player will then go "out of business" and that only the best are left standing.

I personally don't think this is entirely working out and [b]notoriously inflated promises [/b]are a problem all around because education "markets" fail for a number of reasons. For one, we're neither able, nor willing to "shop elsewhere" the way we'd change a grocery store if we're disappointed in the products. Also, we're notoriously ill informed about what's actually happening. At best, when kids are a little older, we can rely on them to fully inform us; but mostly we get a very partial glimpse at it. Lastly, we won't know definitively how good our kids' education was until they're in college or the workforce.[/quote]

Examples, please?  I mean if they are notorious then you should be able to rattle off 5 or 10 no problem?

Where is the outrage for those schools that have zero % with a PARCC 4 or 5 and still get to call themselves schools? DC Navel gazers crack me up.  
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With average PARCC scores...
Options PCS 0%
Tree of Life PCS 5%
Potomac Preparatory PCS 6%
Somerset Prep PCS 8%
Center City Capitol Hill PCS 8%
Democracy Prep PCS 9%
Center City Trinidad PCS 11%
Mary McLeod Bethune PCS 12%

Just starting at the bottom. I can keep going if you like.

I am outraged about DCPS that are failing, but you can't just close a bunch of neighborhood schools. Those are a basic right for families in those areas even though they aren't working well.  I'm all for any good ideas to improve them.  But who needs failing citywide charter schools also?
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