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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me there's a serious battle afoot.  The privates, parochials and public schools all have their crosshairs on charters, because they see their students (and therefore, their funding) going over to charters in ever increasing numbers.  That would certainly explain the vitriol and FUD  campaign of vague, nonspecific and irrelevant accusations about Latin, BASIS and the others.[/quote]

Dc has been at Private for 6 years. I am one of only a handful of parents at DC's school who live in a ward other than ward 3. 90% of parents at Sidwell, Maret,STA,NCS,GDS et al are from ward 3( Foxhall,Wesley Hghts,Chevy Chase,Spring Valley) NOVA or MOCO, so Charter Schools are not even on their radar. I don't thnk these privates " have the charters in their cross hairs". Though all of these parents would say that their child attends private for the academics, and the "community" or moral compass , small class size etc... guess what: their local public school down the street is great and free and they don't send their kid there. This is not about the classroom.

I think Basis has a great concept, but it will only appeal to those already looking at Charters and that is only a handful of familes at any big private. Certainly not enough for anyone to get paranoid about suspicious neg PR.[/quote]

Few in the richest parts of Ward 3 and Ward 2 care about charters or education outside of the neighborhood school (that drives real-estate values a bit) and where they are paying tuition unless they are political or policy oriented for work or as a hobby. If you added all of these people up, you would have fewer than two thousand. [/quote]

I don't know what you meant by "few", PP, but I have had many conversations with ward 3 neighbors who are interested in charters such as Latin and BASIS.  While we are all IB for great ESs, many of us are IB for Hardy MS, and Hardy is not an acceptable option for us.  Even those who are IB for Deal have concerns about MS.  This situation leaves us with few options.  Move out of DC, deplete our life savings sending (multiple) children to privates starting in 6th, or give charters like Latin and BASIS a try.  I see more and more families choosing the third option.  Of course, the third option becomes more attractive as more families make this choice.  [/quote]

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