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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loathsome parent? Worst parent?  Good grief. Get over your own agenda and yourself. I shared my observations and am moving my kids to other, more established charters because my local DCPS is a non starter. My point was simply that new charters are serious risks. Keep your anger in check.[/quote]

I actually have no agenda, other than to call out BS artists who think that policy positions and binary thinking is productive.  But let's take a moment and evaluate your posts and your inconsistent hypocritical positions.  First, you say no more charters, you were snookered and wish you'd invested in your DCPS and yet stayed there for [b]four years[/b].  When I observed that leaving a kid in a bad situation for 4 years is bad parenting, you popped back up to explain that you are now moving your kid...[b]to another charter because your "local DCPS is a non starter.[/b]" So are you anti-charter or not?  You were at first, but now it seems you are anti-the charter your kid attends. Because you seem all about choice when it is for your kid (see: going to different charter).  Also not clear on what the investing in local DCPS means or has to do with anything.

[b]Of course, this is all academic because I stand behind my position that your original post was BS. [/b]You didn't leave your kid in a poor charter for 4 years; didn't happen.[/quote]

NP with no skin in this squabble, but I'll bite. I can see a parent leaving their kid in an ES that has the illusion of a great new wonderful thing. See, most of these new charters. That would place the kid in either the first or second grade after four years at the charter. At this point there are levels of expectarions  and parents begin to reevaluate the school(s).  I know plenty of parents who have pulled their kids and placed them in another charter, DCPS, and private after becoming disillusioned about a HRCS that they may have once touted as awesome.

I also think your response was over the top and you do seem to have an agenda. It is almost as though you have a personal stake in the success of charters or a particular HRCS.  [/quote]

Of course I have a stake in the success of HRCS, my kid attends one!!!  It's much better than my IB DCPS school. But I am not [b]against[/b] DCPS, I am against people who illogically rail against charters without a coherent argument and without telling us what they would do to replace the quality options that HRCS present.  And especially annoyed by the white liberal guilt crowd that seems to have this political agenda without a proposal for how to improve schools.  And you didn't address the irony that the poster chimed in to say no more about charters and that they are snake oil salesmen, but in a subsequent post acknowledged that (i) their kid is going to attend another charter and (ii) their IB school is not an option.[/quote]

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