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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something's gotta give.  As the years go by, the Stanton Park to H St. neighborhood will only become pricer and pricer, whiter and whiter, and more and more high-SES, like the entire Hill.  Spots at charters and OOB at in-demand local schools (SWS, Maury, Brent, Logan, Tyler SI) will be harder and harder to come by.  Eventually, IB LT parents are going to organize to push for sweeping change.

I hope parents and the powers that be take notice when the LT DCPS web page, updated soon after CAS results come out in August, shows that the IB population fell a tad for SY 2012-2013, for the second year running.

Maybe nobody much will care that the IB population is dropping at Ludlow until more DC public kids are in charters than DCPS.  I'd wager that will be true by SY 2015-2016.   The momentum is there - 0% in charters in the late 90s, nearly 45% for the upcoming school year.

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It sounds like you're assuming that DCPS doesn’t want more schools to go Charter.

I assume the opposite – based on Kaya’s actions of closing more and more DCPS schools and asking for her own chartering authority.  It’s only speculation, but  it’s looking like Kaya’s job now is to preside over the demise of DCPS, after which she’ll be taken care of professionally  by the charter movement.

If that speculation is on target, then if she’s reading here, she will see no reason to improve L-T for IB parents.  As many have written here, although you’d like your kids to be able to walk to school, what’s most important is that they get a good education – and you have the means and the will to do it.  You’ll keep your house on the Hill, apply to several charter schools, play the lottery and drive your kids to Brookland or wherever to you need to go.

Thus, simply by virtue of being parents who want a good education for their kids, (without breaking the bank or moving to the burbs), you unintentionally and unconsciously play into the hands of those who want to switch DC to a charter system.  Your kids’ scores will bring up the Charter scores, while DCPS scores fall, because there are fewer kids of engaged parents in them, making charters look more and more successful than DCPS.

In this scenario, there is no incentive for DCPS to make L-T or any school more welcoming to engaged IB parents.  I don’t know the L-t principal, but from reading here, she sounds perfect for the job of facilitating Charter growth.
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