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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter school parents:  We want DC to way over-spend on our facilities too (albeit without the big gratuity to developers).  Any money that WTU negotiates for their dues-paying teachers is owed to our teachers too.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS has failed us.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS is violent.  We can't take any students that have to or want to leave other charters; DCPS needs to take those.  Even as we take away half the kids from DCPS, we don't want to have any part is helping solve the messes that DCPS has to deal with -- that is other kids' problem.

Basically, we want the equality for all the good stuff but avoidance for all the difficult parts.[/quote]

This is so hostile. Please go say this to Ward 7 and ward 8 parents, most of whom send their kids to charters. [/quote]

You're right.  I don't think its many Ward 7 and 8 charter school parents here saying the stuff above.  The above only applies to the DCUM charter school crowd.  What above has not been said in this thread?[/quote]

The DCUM crowd has a component of people who are white people living in gentrifying neighborhoods who are highly sensitive to their neighbors who choose to opt into DCI feeders or Latin or BASIS and their entire worldview is shaped by how betrayed they feel by it.

But this is a tiny proportion of the charter world. Do these people even know anyone who sent their kids to DC Prep? And how thankful they are that this option exists, to support their kids who have college aspirations but live in a community where going to the local DCPS means joining the drug trade and gang life? This is not a stereotype, this is from conversations I've had with people in that group.

So it does feel hostile for "Nice white parents" to denigrate charters.[/quote]

Look I absolutely understand this to an extent but do you realize most of those other charters have abysmal records? People cherry pick on both sides of this. Coolidge sends more kids to better colleges than most of those places and a bunch of people complained that it had a massive renovation (that was also the building for the first MS in that part of town). And a lot of the charter parents complaining here wouldn't dream to send their kid to Coolidge but in order to support money for their own mostly wealthy charters have to pretend to support places like Rocketship and KIPP.[/quote]

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