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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it gets rejuvenated because higher SES parents in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights-- who are sending their kids to good charters which have to fight tooth and nail for every inch of decent facility space-- see CHEC as a relatively new facility that is a failing educational institution run by what by all accounts appears to be a tyrant.  And they wonder why that situation is allowed to continue.  [/quote]

I know a lot of those parents, and as far as I know, none of them have set foot inside CHEC for any reason other than to vote there if that's their polling place. Their information is usually second or third hand - they heard from someone who doesn't send their child there that someone who does send their child there that it's a crappy school - and then they combine that gossip with a handful of facts they pull from a website and present this opinion as though it should have weight. The other people who talk about it are people who worked there at one point or another in whatever capacity who have negative opinions about the school.[/quote]

Besides Jay Matthews Washington Post, in 17 years of living in DC, I have not heard one positive thing to say about the school or its administration. Even if you ignore the negative comments, you can't ignore the fact that those that go there are not commenting on how good it is either. [/quote]

Commenting on it where? Here? The high school parents who post here don't talk about any public school but Wilson. I have heard positive things about the principal from a couple people in the neighborhood - one who runs a community organization that works with some Bell students and one who is an educator at another neighborhood school. I haven't sought out other comments because my kid won't be ready for those conversations for another 5 years.

I'm perfectly comfortable to ignore gossip and hearsay and form my opinions based on actual observations. Why is that unusual?[/quote]

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