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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCPS is doing a great job making progress considering that, unlike charters, they can't IN ANY way "cherry pick" students. Or "counsel them out". [/quote]

Out-of-boundary students can be sent back to their in-boundary school at the principal's discretion. Some principals use that power to "cherry pick" and "counsel out" students.[/quote]

But the number of students that actually happens to is minute compared to the number that charters cherry pick/counsel out/convince parents to withdraw from.  DCPS schools who are on the receiving end of those students counseled out of charters know better than anyone what those numbers are like.  It happens all the time in charters.[/quote]

Assume for the sake of argument that you're completely unfounded conjecture is correct (as if an anonymous posting that "it happens all the time is credible - but let's assume).  The idea that this impacts all of DCPS is a fallacy.  It doesn't impact JKLM.  It doesn't impact Brent, or likely Maurey.  So it isn't impacting all of DCPS.  That all or none approach is garbage.  It is impacting the marginal schools in poor neighborhoods.  And those are the very kids who are looking for a way out (read: charters).  For sure those kids can be counseled out - some legitimately because they don't show up, or show up on time. Some may be targeted.  But the idea that the answer is that charters are causing the problem just doesn't make sense. [b] I've never understood the argument that because some kids from poor neighborhoods get screwed we should take away the choice from all of them.    I just don't get it...[/b][/quote]

OK you lost me there...[b]where in this thread did it say anything about taking choice away from the poor marginalized children[/b].  I think the point that people have been making is that charters are being touted as the next best thing for those poor children who can't hit the lottery (how ironic) to get into a school on the "good side of town" [b]yet those charters are not up to par because the are being staffed with inexperienced teachers and administrators. [/b][b]Yet their neighborhood DCPS is being skipped over for renovation[/b] and experienced teachers are being escorted out due to DCPS wanting to replace them with younger teachers who make less money. Those were the main points being discussed. [/quote]

Moving, inconsistent target much?

***No one against charters ever says they are taking choice away. But if charters go away then what choice is available?

***So are the people who want a school somewhere else getting snookered and not getting a quality education? Or are they getting forced out and denied a quality education?

***The assertion that teachers are inexperienced is unfounded and doesn't match the results the HRCS are producing.  It was disingenuous to slide that in as if it was a fact. It's one of the talking points of the anti-charter people...that you claim not to be. You undermine your credibility when you slide in those talking points.

***There is zero evidence that charters are the reason that lousy DCPS schools aren't being funded. Zero.

Are you intentionally hiding the ball?  Or are you just not smart enough to see the crap in your post?[/quote]

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