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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mundo verde and creative minds are two examples of charters located in neighborhoods with low income families. Inspired Teaching as well. For the Pp who believes that this exact situation can't exist. [/quote]

I think you haven't been to Bloomimgdale recently.  Also, neighborhood preference would destroy Mundo Verde, or at least diminish it greatly.  You really need to buy into the philosophy, not just live nearby and not have other options.[/quote]

So I guess the answer is they all agree on neighborhood preference, so don't vote at all or vote for Settles because he "might" change his mind?

I'm sorry but the OOB EOTP parents who make the sacrifice to get their kids into Deal Wilson feeders, or people like us who have to go in a completely different direction to get to our charter which is no longer sponsoring buses....  Or people who have followed a charter thru several different locations.  This is education.

Parents make tons of sacrifices, not just 'difficulty in transportation.'  We know quite a few parents who are renting in Ward 3 because they cannot afford to buy and will continue unless Wilson goes lottery, the same way we know parents who are renting in MoCo.

We were never walking distance from our IB ES school, and our oldest did 3 schools in 3 years because we felt a different charter would be better and we are still glad we made the decision because it is for 4 kids all the way through high school.  I just don't see these neighborhood preferences as anything but pandering.

I would never send my kids to a language immersion school.  Perhaps more to the point, I would never send my kids to KIPP.  I guess you would have to do this on a case by case basis, but whose judgement would matter?  I just see this as a way to weaken the charters which are educating 43% of our kids because...............  DCPS could not or would not.  Now suddenly they want to make it ok to close schools if there are charters in the area at the expense of the charters and the families whose first choice would be a decent DCPS?

Mrs. Settles, if it is true, does your decision to move your children from a charter to a feeder school for Deal/Wilson (are you IB or OOB?) have anything to do with your husband's position on this issue? We know why Bowser is doing it, to get votes.

No one wants to hear jack from Ward 3 but the only schools that have really succeeded besides BASIS with Title I populations are charters like KIPP, which are not for everyone.  My kids would not respond well to that kind of discipline, especially in younger grades.

1/4 of the seats for Latin according to here, which has 111 open spaces, 57 reserved for sibs, would be what?  Leave less than 30 spaces open for the lottery?  This would NOT be fair.

Unless someone can give me a reason to vote AGAINST another candidate by voting for Settles, I think I am sitting this one out since no one supports the only issue I care about..............[/quote]

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