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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter school parents:  We want DC to way over-spend on our facilities too (albeit without the big gratuity to developers).  Any money that WTU negotiates for their dues-paying teachers is owed to our teachers too.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS has failed us.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS is violent.  We can't take any students that have to or want to leave other charters; DCPS needs to take those.  Even as we take away half the kids from DCPS, we don't want to have any part is helping solve the messes that DCPS has to deal with -- that is other kids' problem.

Basically, we want the equality for all the good stuff but avoidance for all the difficult parts.[/quote]

This is so hostile. Please go say this to Ward 7 and ward 8 parents, most of whom send their kids to charters. [/quote]

You're right.  I don't think its many Ward 7 and 8 charter school parents here saying the stuff above.  The above only applies to the DCUM charter school crowd.  What above has not been said in this thread?[/quote]

The DCUM crowd has a component of people who are white people living in gentrifying neighborhoods who are highly sensitive to their neighbors who choose to opt into DCI feeders or Latin or BASIS and their entire worldview is shaped by how betrayed they feel by it.

But this is a tiny proportion of the charter world. Do these people even know anyone who sent their kids to DC Prep? And how thankful they are that this option exists, to support their kids who have college aspirations but live in a community where going to the local DCPS means joining the drug trade and gang life? This is not a stereotype, this is from conversations I've had with people in that group.

So it does feel hostile for "Nice white parents" to denigrate charters.[/quote]

I'm the "hostile" poster. Again, my post only paraphrases comments that have actually been made in this thread.

I don't have any issue with the existence of charters and don't "denigrate" them.

I do have an issue with charter parents who denigrate DCPS -- or at least who, oddly, denigrate DCPS for having responsibility for handling our most challenging social problems.

DCPS leadership sucks. They may have some sort of credentials in education, but we need people at Central who are excellent managers and who are gifted in leading change.  Being a role-model for a specific demographic is nice, but it's not enough.  We need a new mayor who makes more inspired choices for DCPS leadership.

And I don't begrudge charter parents who find the best solutions for the own kids.  They should do that.

BUT to choose a charter and then complain about how good kids in DCPS have it?  That's nuts. [/quote]

The city spends $10,000 more per child in DCPS than it does in charters every single year. Why stop there? Why not $100,000 more? Maybe we should impose a special annual fee on families who go to charters too. Even better, why don't we create a special tax surcharge on them? Maybe every family in charters should be subject to a special 25 percent income tax surcharge? And all the money that raises can be earmarked for even more over-the-top renovations for DCPS? Do any of the schools have lazy rivers, yet? [/quote]

+1[/quote]

Love it. Families will leave DC faster than anything we've seen before. The resulting harm to the tax base will ensure the education completely collapses because there certainly won't be money for schools.[/quote]

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