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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think so. Especially languagenor Montessori.[/quote]

You want 6th graders with no exposure to Montessori or immersion to start middle school?

No, these schools need to be more in line with Latin or other traditional schools. They need to be pulling from the Wilson feeder elementary schools, drawing them away from Deal and Hardy.[/quote]

[b]Except for the fact that charters are supposed to fill a curriculum void (language, Montessori, gifted ed, STEM, special ed, etc...), or pursue a civic mission, like education equity, *not* address overcrowding in a wealthy public school area. DCPS is responsible for planning to address that.[/b]

Of course, the city can get around that by allowing into Ward 3 a charter that fills a city-wide curriculum void. But I'd still much prefer that DCPS  address overcrowding with high quality public schools, and that the city-wide charters be placed more centrally, accessible to the whole city, and further away from the private school kids.[/quote]

Charters have used the curriculum gaps to expand, but that's not really the primary purpose.   The charters movement began as an effort apply practical innovation which could be applied to the education landscape (public and private).  In many ways DCPS has followed that lead in terms of expanding immersion, Montessori, etc.

But in reality, charters are mostly private entities carving out fiefdoms within the public ed landscape.  As long as public dollars are being spent on charters the money should address structural inequities in public education, although that logic applies to the Wilson zone in a very different way than OP thinks.[/quote]

A cryptic response. How does that logic apply to Wilson, exactly?[/quote]

not really -- Wilson feed is the embodiment of inequity in DC public ed.  Charters aren't intended to exacerbate this inequity by serving the overserved[/quote]

But they are not overserved by a long shot. And moreover, one of the main problems is that they are serving so many OOB kids- kids who are lower SES, which is then offering all that overserved benefits to the underserved. You can't say that Deal/Wlison is overserved when 41%/30% of the students are from other parts of the city.  [/quote]

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