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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exhausting. Parents are to blame because they wrongly believe that anything new and shiny means the school is better. So they bitch non stop for new facilities and wow, the test scores still suck. You can renovate Cardozo, rebuild Dunbar and build a new brook land middle...guess what the test scores are abysmal, high SES parents won't send their kids there but yet everyone whines to spend more money or more new buildings.[/quote]

I don't believe it will change test scores. But I'd like my kids (and ALL other kid in the city) to have decent facility because DECENCY.

How's that for a reason?

Or do you think poorly performing kids /schools should just be left in squalor?[/quote]

NP - no one wants them in squalor but they are half empty. We need fewer schools. Give them to charters on 20-year leases. [/quote]

For now, sure. But 10 years from now that space may be needed for DCPS.[/quote]

The question is whether DCPS or a charter would serve the public better with the space. DCPS isn't making a strong case for itself.[/quote]

Hmm, if you give all the facilities to charters, where will the kids attend when the charters counsel them out for one reason or another? And please, don't give me that nonsense that charters do not counsel children out. I've seen it for myself. And before you give that trite argument that I must hate charters, just stop. I don't hate charters. My kid is benefiting greatly by attending a great charter and not having to deal with the kids that were counseled to find a better fit. [/quote]

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