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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]and meanwhile be chill about PCSB walking around lighting little fires everywhere and saying oops, that's how it's designed, can't help it myeehhhh? No, thanks. I'll complain and work to change things when and where I can, not be hustled to take my complaints elsewhere.[/quote]

Exactly.  Oh look at us, we care soooo much about children that we are forced to open school after school with zero regard for the functioning of the system as a whole.[/quote]

They close them too. No one seems to have a problem with that.

I have no IB MS at all (EC) and the HS is awful. I’m grateful to have my kids in a high performing charter for those grades. Why should other families be denied those same options, especially families who can’t easily relocate out of the city and who can’t afford a private school. We have waited long enough and MS and HS are too serious to mess around with. [/quote]

Well, the schools that they close are pretty awful and they give them a huge amount of time to flounder and fail before closing.  So it is okay, but it doesn't benefit the kids to shuffle from school to school, and their performance does not alway improve at a new school.  Rather than churning through openings and closings it would be better to focus on improving the existing charters.  That would create more high performing schools without the churn and this round of applications is pretty underwhelming.

A lot of what makes a school "high performing" is having students enter at a good academic level and have a supportive home environment.  Spreading those kids across too many different schools means that each one has not enough for a big cohort.  [/quote]

In the meantime the Chater school board has a job, kudos, kickbacks, business deals etc, never mind the kids. This constant opening and closing and floundering only happens to poor kids they are worse off than if they went to their neighborhood school and those resources help support the school. But no never mind, just keep opening and closing schools based on [b]goodness only know what basis[/b]. [/quote]

Just make neighborhood schools work for families already.  Do what it takes, DCPS. [/quote]

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