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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, others have implied this but let me make it crystal clear for you.  What BASIS and Latin and some other charters get you is a good middle school AND a guaranteed spot at an acceptable high school.  So sometimes people who would be okay with SH or Eliot-Hine choose charters for the high school access.  There's nothing dumb about wanting some predictability and security that you have access to an adequate school.  And there's nothing dumb about having low confidence in DCPS.  The sooner you wrap your head around the idea that DCPS' management is the problem, the faster you'll get it.  It's not like demographics and academic cohort and racism etc aren't present here, [b]but the *adults* who operate DCPS are a big reason people don't attend[/b].  Not just because of the demographics or the behaviors or kids being academically behind. [b] It's the management and their decisions and their incompetence and dishonesty.[/quote][/b]

Can someone elaborate. I have no clue what you guys are talking about. Specific examples please. [/quote]

Here are just a few.  I'm sure there is more that I don't know about.

Antwan Wison and his lottery cheating.  And the amount of residency and boundary cheaters who are DCPS employees.  It's on the attorney general of DC website.  [b]The cheating at Ellington alone was astonishing and went on for years.[/b]

The insane thing with the teachers at JO Wilson, link up thread.

The principal of Miner getting fired for slapping a child in front of multiple adult witnesses.

Ellington renovations running massively over budget.

City Paper article about a whistleblower and school lunch contract procurement

I forget which school but they let CPS pick up the wrong kid from school.

Cleveland elementary teacher charged with assaulting a 4th grader.

$200,000 contractor fraud in 2018 for falsely claiming to provide special needs services.

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Those allegations at Duke were largely proven false.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/duke-ellington-school-funding/2021/01/30/8c718d66-618d-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html[/quote]

But enough were found to be true that it is a fair example of fraud and corruption and incompetence.  At $12,000 per kid per year, even just 10 or 12 cheaters costs the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.  [/quote]

And even if most were exonerated, it was wayyyy more than 10 or 12 who were found to be defrauding the city. [/quote]

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