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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s obvious that many people on here don’t know the history of DCPS.

Charters benefitted the city immensely because of school choice and it kept middle class families in the city.  Otherwise they would move to the burbs once they had kids.

If Basis, Latin, DCI was not an option, the majority of these families, such as ours, would move to the burbs and not stay for failing DCPS middle and high school.

Charters are what’s keeping alot if families in the city.  If not for then, they would move, not go to their IB DCPS school. 
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Agreed. There are a lot of newbies around who seem to think charters came on the scene and “ruined DCPS middle schools”.

Hahaha…ha.

People. You should have seen DCPS before charters.  Hellscape.

The out of boundary enrollments were unreal. Overnight lines, shady dealings you name it. That was how families without means for parochial/private exercised school choice before charters. 
 
Charters came and, among other benefits, halted the rapid loss of public school students from DC—INCLUDING DCPS.  Neighborhood schools are doing better since charters started, in terms of enrollment and academic outcomes.

Something about the idea that families can make public education work in DC one way or another invigorated both public sectors.  We may now be at a juncture where the role and size of the charter sector needs to be revisited, but get out of with the “charters are the problem everything was great before” bs.

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