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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd rather not malign a charter I basically like by naming it, one that saved us from a crappy IB school.  But I will acknowledge that the arrangement seems to slip a bit with every passing year.  The problems are mundane, rooted in the achievement and opportunity gap between low-SES and high-SES kids widening as time goes on.

We've done summer camps abroad for the last two summers, as well as Johns Hopkins CTY this summer, and have had a target language speaking au pair at home since PreK.  Hence, my kid is now so far ahead of most of the low-SES AA kids in the target language that he's getting bored, not just on immersion days but on English days.  The warm school community no longer gives me much of a boost.

Two of his high-SES buddies left for privates last year, a real blow to him.  It's as though we're holding a handful of sand, with grains slipping out as we go.  If we're on a slight downward trajectory in the middle ES grades, yikes, where will be by 12th grade at DCI?  I'm starting to eye WIS....

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If you feel that the charter and DCI will not provide enough challenge than by all means go elsewhere but complaining about the achievement gap between high and low SES kids?!? Is this for real!  It doesn't sound like your DS is suffering... Sooooo bored in elementary school, poor dear.  So go private where there is little SES diversity.  You belong there.

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