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[quote=Anonymous]I think charterization will go on with or without Henderson or Gray - just as it started before either one of them were in charge and has accelerated under their watch, though neither one of them actively advocated charters before they were in control.

I think it's a bus that  DC (and other cities) are on that won't stop unless engaged parents want to do something about it and I don't see the will there.  (I wish I did).

Some parents may move to another part of town to avoid commuting, but right now, some don't have to - they get lucky in the lottery and get into a good charter near or in their gentrifying neighborhood.

The latest talk is of tweaking the system to allow "neighborhood charters."  If this happens, there will be less will for parents to support DCPS.

Imagine if L-T became a charter and neighborhood families who applied had priority:  Current engaged parents would have a huge incentive, it seems to me, to take the plunge and try to enroll their kids in L-T. It would practically guarantee that more "people like us" would be in the school. The inevitable rising scores resulting from having more middle class kids would be used by the charter movement and the city (whoever is mayor) to show the benefits of getting out of DCPS and going charter.  Parents will know the truth, but won’t bother calling anyone out on it as long as their kids are getting a good education.  It will happen in more and more gentrifying neighborhoods, until DCPS central office will have to downsize.  No problem for central office staff, though, as they will prime candidates for administrative jobs in charter schools.  At this point DCPS  will be overseeing only the few magnet schools and good neighborhood schools in upper NW that didn’t need gentrifying.  Then those schools can become charters, too!  Why not? For instance, there could be a JKLM charter group preserving the already great DCPS schools.  Parents might balk at first, but if their kids can stay in their same good neighborhood schools, what do they care, really?

I’d love to be wrong about this because I don’t want to see public money being turned over to private entities for their benefit, with no benefit to the kids.  Can anyone convince me that this isn’t what’s happening or why it wouldn’t or shouldn’t work?
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