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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High income parents send their kids to private school, not charter schools or other public schools (unless it's TJ in Virginia).[/quote]

Nope. Wrong again. [/quote]

But I think this brings up an interesting question. I'm in Ward 5. If all our charters were "outlawed tomorrow" (not realistic but just imagine), would those high income parents move their kids to private, or "immediately" flip the local DCPS? Or would the just move away? As one of those parents...I'd probably test the waters, but my guess is a combination of the three. There would be no immediate flip. It might improve, but only if it happened to suddenly listen to a band of high income parents (not only white btw) about what to do with the school. Unlikely. Personally I might try it out but make other plans for upper grades, much like parents are doing now who I know.[/quote]

+1.  I live there too, and I think the lower grades in elementary schools would drastically improve.  But having seen the struggles at Stuart-Hobson and Eliot-Hine, I simply have no faith in DCPS' competence in managing a middle school.  The conditions are there, parents are trying, and it is still really hard. Why would I expect any different in Ward 5, which is so much less affluent?

[b]This isn't about the kids being a problem.  The[/b] more I work and learn, the more I realize that downtown is the heart of the matter.  They are incompetent, they make terrible decisions, and I don't know how to change it.  That is why people like me go to charters eventually.  I can't un-know the things I know about how DCPS really works.[/quote]

Thank you for this comedic gold. I havent been able to stop laughing for 10 minutes.

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To be fair, you'd laugh just as hard at a cat gif. You are a simple, simple person. Like dear Betsy, your idol.[/quote]

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