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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elected representatives are what got us into the current situation. The current situation doesn't work for everyone.  Competition is particularly good at encouraging new approaches and wringing out efficiencies and providing good benchmarks of best practices.  Why not allow charter schools?  If they fail - fine.  If they succeed, great.  The public schools can learn and become better.
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You act like there's someone who can just end a charter if it doesn't work well. How does one go about ending a charter and getting public dollars back? Who reviews the charter? These decisions affect children. APS has so many "choice" schools that it seems impossible to believe that parents are actually looking for more choice in educational models. If they are looking for less class segregation, that is a discussion with your supervisors regarding zoning. Any charter or choice school will take away bussing which does not end up helping the poor who need the bussing. Plus as it is, the poor in APS already has a choice of many schools to get in a lottery for. They aren't constrained to one school boundary. One of the reasons APS is hurting a bit is because of all the choice schools they have. If they were to add charters, it would just dilute resources further. APS is the strongest school system in Virginia. Outside of class segregation, what else do you want them to do? Their schools are doing well, so it can't be a complaint about the teaching. They cannot fix the segregation issue more than they already have with lotteries or through more boundary shifts. The only way Arlington can integrate better class wise is to put more apartments up north and less down south and provide more opportunities for the poor in the county to attend choice magnet schools. Nothing that needs to involve charter schools.[/quote]

Sweetie- I was involved with the AHMP. I've been involved in everything in the last few years. There is no will to fix these problems at the county level. My family doesn't have 30 years to wait. I'll take a charter please.[/quote]

And you think charters will fix this? How exactly? You know they won't, but you don't really care so long as you get an "out." Dig in and make things better wherever you land, just like the rest of us who have been involved in "everything" the last few years. And if that doesn't suit, pay for your precious to attend private school yourself. [/quote]

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