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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yea, real problems.

Can we include a cram school housed in a cramped office building graduating 50 students a year substituting for acceptable neighborhood public middle and high schools EotP?[/quote]

I think this is the real question: Are charter schools like Basis substituting for acceptable neighborhood public middle and high schools? Yes, it's absolutely true that if Basis weren't there, some engaged kids and parents would be going to neighborhood schools, bringing their talents, enthusiams, and ability to put political pressure on DCPS, and therefore helping to improve those schools. But how many - more than a handful? How much difference would they make in the overall quality of those schools? How much worse would the education of those kids be compared to what they are getting at BASIS? I really don't know.

I do know that the quality of neighborhood middle schools before charters was dismal. Granted, that was in a very different economic environment. There are many more upper-middle class families sending their children to public schools in DC now - both DCPS and charter. How much of that growth was due to charters? How much was because of other factors, such as the decline in crime? If those families were drawn into DC for other reasons, maybe without charters many of them would have gone to neighborhood schools.

- Basis middle school parent, whose child seems pretty happy and is certainly learning more than in his DCPS elementary school

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As a parent if a high schooler and a middle schooler at BASIS EotP, [b]we would have gone private or moved before we would have sent our DCs to the IB DCPS option. [/b]Going to a charter had no impact at all by us on our IB school.[/quote]

Sure, there would be many to make that decision.  But for other IB schools that are further along towards becoming desirable, nearby charters may have sucked any momentum out of them, or at least slowed it.  These scenarios happen too.[/quote]

Sure some charters take some kids from their IB.  But some parents choose charters because of the more progressive curriculum in addition to the peer group.[/quote]

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