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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids in a charter (not necessarily forever - they're still young and I'm also open to application DCPS HSs) and I don't like the idea of a DME with this attitude:

"In his essay, Khin called for traditional public school districts to forgo trying to be all things to all people and to “specialize” by focusing on the “hardest-to-serve” students. He wrote that charter schools, like magnets and other special admission schools, could more-or-less manage themselves." (source: https://wamu.org/story/18/09/25/bowser-picks-former-consultant-deputy-mayor-education/)[/quote]

I LOVE this attitude. This is exactly the problem with DCPS-trying to be all things to all people, and WHY parents and children like charters. Being all things to all people waters down the program for everyone. Mediocrity is served up everyday. DCPS should offer more specialized offerings.  I do hope  he expands his mindset of hardest to serve. This is not only low-SES, as so often is the focus in DC.  All students are deserve excellence and its hard to serve them that, so tailor the offerings, whether addressing a community with low-SES constraints, or offering a school with tech or arts or language. Choices and excellence would serve DC public school students so much better than the current one size fits all warmed over offerings. - a teacher[/quote]

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