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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For profit education is not the problem here. The problem is the inability or unwillingness of DCPS to educate kids. A BASIS elementary school isn’t going to make DCPS schools any better or worse. DCPS will continue its race to the bottom all on its own. At least BASIS gives families a choice. [/quote]

Yeah, but if it were non-profit, DCPS could save the money that's being creamed off the top to send to shareholders and expand one of the successful charter schools. Or, in theory, improve the non-charter options. [/quote]

You seem clueless.

Let's examine your argument.

KIPP is a charter network with schools in DC, with 7000 students.  It is a nonprofit.  KIPP DC receives $213 million a year--most of this from DC taxpayers--and spends $1.6 million of this on executive salaries, paying executives $250,000-$350,000/year.

What is DC getting for this money?  Let's see:  The best KIPP in DC is College Prep.  At this school, only 24% of the kids are at grade level in reading, 0% are at grade level in science, and only 2% received a 3 on at least one AP exam.

And somehow you think that this is better than BASIS DC, which is the #1 ranked public middle school in DC and #1 non-selective public high school in DC?

I assume that you are just some weird troll but, if not, you are just ignorant.  Go away.[/quote]

Is this thread about KIPP's suitability as a recipient of DC taxpayer dollars? I'd be very happy to join a thread that discuses that failure. Charter schools are, for the most part, total shams. But when a non-profit charter school is mediocre and diverts the money meant for children's education into the pockets of management, it's wrong and there's a variety of remedies. (Let's start another thread and talk about why they're not being used!)

When a for-profit charter school, like BASIS, diverts money meant for children's education into the pockets of management (and shareholders!) it's not wrong, it's the whole point of the operation.

Opposition to for-profit education is not a "weird troll" or "ignorant" position to take—you woudln't send your kid to a for-profit college, why would you send them to a for-profit high school, middle school or even, and this is truly mind-boggling, an elementary school. Profit has no place in education. End of story. [/quote]

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