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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know the guy and I have not followed his criticism of families for going charter (and I do not agree with the criticism of such families - we are all doing the best we can for our kids) but his daughter is going to a DCPS school, not a charter.  The application schools are part of the system that he has tried to support.  Has he advocated for getting rid of the application High schools?  That is an option that is available to all students city wide.

I get that he is apparently annoyingly self-promoting, I just don’t see the huge hypocrisy if his daughter is attending dcps.

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Yes. He previously said that charters AND the DCPS application schools are bad because they pull students out of their neighborhood schools.

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Yes exactly. This is why we are so upset. [/quote]

I know Joe Weedon and he has never said this to me. He also knows that I lotteried outside of my IB school and still provided assistance when I needed it (this is when he was my SBOE rep). He never gave me grief about it. I have heard him criticize the proliferation of charter schools and that the lack of planning and coordinating with DCPS has hurt neighborhood schools. But that's very different than saying, "all charters are bad." I will also note that he has criticized DCPS just as much as the charter sector. He's just being an advocate for students. I don't understand the hate presented on this thread. [/quote]

It’s DCUM, Jake.[/quote]

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