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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there were no charters and no OOB then our neighborhood school would without any doubt be excellent.

It's currently a good school with a great principal, but results suffer in the testing grades because of high poverty and the problems associated with it.  If all the high(er) SES families in the neighborhood (really the majority now) sent their kids there the school would be more diverse, there would be more involved parents and everyone would benefit.

There's this fallacy here on DCUM that a charter somehow is hugely superior to DCPS, [b]when in many cases the notable differences (aside from some specialist focus) is the higher SES of the students[/b].  Our local DCPS schools (Langley and Seaton) don't differ significantly in terms of teaching staff, extra curriculars, resources or buildings from any of the HRCS I toured. [/quote]

Not true of the charter sector as a whole - you can't just consider the so-called HRCs when talking about DCPS vs Charters. The students in charter schools are, on the whole, more disadvantaged than the students in DCPS. And the kids in those schools, on average, are doing better than those in DCPS. http://www.dcpcsb.org/facts-and-figures-student-demographics[/quote]

I think that's weighted heavily by the Prep-type academies, which show significantly better results in high poverty schools than DCPS.  On average, Charters and DCPS are pretty close in performance.  It would be interesting to see the data broken down to see if DCPS actually outperforms Charters with kids from mid / high SES families.[/quote]

This entire line of argument is so very, very useless to the real work decisions that families must make about their kid's education.  Other than navel gazing public olicy people and bored SAHM/SAHD on DCUM, no one sits around and looks at blended PARCC score data to determine whether to send their kid to DCPS or a charter. If they are looking at scores (I know I do) they are looking at comparisons of schools at which their kid could attend.  I don't live in upper NW so the scores of JKLM are not going to help me decide if I am comfortable with my IB DCPS school.  And I'm no more sending my kid to a crappy Tier 3 charter than I am sending them to KIPP, so those scores are of no interest to me either. My decision is about individual schools that are possibilities for my family based on location (commute), school offerings, success rates, etc. [/quote]

I look at scores (along with visiting schools, neighborhoods, etc) to see if it is worth moving to different parts of DC or leaving DC altogether.[/quote]

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