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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THIS!!!!!!!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Council will soon be reviewing and approving the new WTU contract for teachers. It includes ~$170M for retroactive raises and bonuses. Though charter schools educate nearly half of students attending publicly funded schools in D.C., there is nothing in the legislation about providing $$$ for retroactive raises for charter schools.

If charters are willing to commit to spending the money on compensation/raises, why would we want to exclude nearly half of the teachers working in the District from this legislation? Personally, I don't think my child or my child's teacher should have access to fewer resources because we opted into a charter. How is this equitable?[/quote]

This is stupid.  The contract with between the WTU and the city.  The charter teachers aren't in the WTU.

Look, I don't really like the WTU bc I think they do a massive disservice to their members, but your argument is dumb.[/quote]

"This is stupid," as your opening is a clear indication of your character and temperament which makes me pray that you are not a teacher, educator, or parent. Why is it unreasonable to expect, regardless of WTU or not, that all public schools will be funded equally?  Why is it unreasonable to expect that we would want all publicly funded schools to have access to the same resources?[/quote]

It's stupid because the history of charter vs DCPS funding in this city is long and complicated. You seem unaware of it. Read up and you'll see that it's very complex and hard to say what "equal" even means. Teacher salaries alone are very complex because you have to consider the union, performance bonuses, and the labor market for certain specialized teachers. It sounds like you have a lot to learn.

But look. There are some benefits and some drawbacks to being part of a large system. DCPS has certain economies of scale. It's also less nimble. Pros and cons. Demanding that everything be the same when it benefits charters, but demanding flexibility when it suits you, is what makes you seem uninformed.[/quote]

Thanks for the advice. I did the research. When the contract was negotiated in 2017, charters were provided equivalent funding to DCPS.

More important, I don't actually care about union contracts or district vs. charter. I care about the amount of money being spent on schools in the public sector to be the same. You can argue that charter schools are not public schools all you want, but for the purposes of funding in DC, that's how they are treated.

The charter my child attends is a better fit for my kid than our neighborhood school. [b]They should have access to fewer resources in their school because...?[/b] I'm sure my kids school will find the money to raise teachers salary. And I'm sure that it will impact what they can spend on the rest of their program. Which is not what's going to happen in DCPS schools. Its hard to believe anyone who is not an ideologue would be OK with that.[/quote]

When you sign your child up for a charter school, you are actively taking resources ($$$) from your neighborhood school. Anyone should not be ok with that[/quote][/quote]

Oh give it a break.  Families don’t send their kids to their neighborhood DCPS school for so many valid reasons.

As someone pointed out accurately earlier, provide appropriate education to meet my kids needs in a calm, productive learning environment.  If you can’t do that, no way am I sending my kid.

Frankly families care about their own kids and that’s their top priority, not their neighborhood schools.  If you want families to send kids to their neighborhood school, then DCPS needs to clean up its mess, stop focusing just on the bottom, and scrape the BS restorative justice program where kids have no consequences and behavior issues on the classroom is a shi*show.[/quote]

Somebody really took the time in their day to write that paragraph of hyperbole, nodded, and thought, yep, this is it.[/quote]

Sorry if the truth hurts.[/quote]

If you would like to do a SO thread, I'd love to hear 1) how this is true of DCPS schools; and 2) how your charter differs. doesn't really belong on here[/quote]

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