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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you have so many charters, it’s hard for neighborhood schools to get a critical mass of high achieving students. There are no charters in the Wilson area, so it’s easier for those neighborhood schools to thrive.[/quote]

This! And the siphon off money too.[/quote]

I don't mean to get conspiratorial, but if there was a BASIS in the Container Store location up there in Tenleytown, I imagine Ward 3 would have a different opinion about charters, more in line with us EOTP parents hoping for integration at Roosevelt, Dunbar, and Eastern, etc., but choosing Latin or Cap City or whatever instead.[/quote]

I agree with you, but I think it would need to be a Latin to really peel people off.

Ward 3, and the rest of the more affluent Wilson feeder parents aren't going to love BASIS because it is too limited in extra-curricular and they think their kids will be fine without the more intense academic approach.

OTOH maybe they would shun Latin because it has uniforms. [/quote]

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