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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, again we only fight charter versus public.  In my Ward, Ward 5 charters are winning out, but they cannot serve the new group of parents moving in due to space.  So what do we need to be fighting for to have a "right" to a workable solution rather than a "lottery" chance?[/quote]

Yes, all parents in the city should have a right to a good school.  I think charter have there place, but can only work well in a system with stone neighborhood schools too.  Instead, charters have become a all-city substitute  neighborhood schools -- if you're lucky in the lottery.

To some extent, I think parents have let this happen, as they jumped at the "chance" to get into a charter, thus not working on building up their neighborhood option.  I don't think parents SHOULD HAVE TO work on their own neighborhood schools, but they way the system is set up, that is the only way it happens.

I think parents all over the city should demand that DCPS do its job and build up, instead of close, neighborhood schools.  It's not an easy job, but it's DCPS' job and they haven't been doing it. [/quote]

I couldn't agree more. [/quote]

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