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If your kid can only succeed when surrounded by tons of kids from rich and well-educated families, you have a point--and you should probably look at private, or at least a public in a very wealthy area. But there are kids doing well at all of these charter schools (look at the Coke Scholar from Cap City, for example), other charters (DCI and Latin, for example), and in DCPS too. Using public schools in a city that is majority-minority and has high child poverty rates is going to be different than the experience in a more wealthy and homogenous suburb. That's not to say DC schools are perfect--I'd make some very big changes if I were the DCPS chancellor! But if you turn your nose up at a dozen + schools educating thousands of kids and don't think any student is getting a decent education, I'd have to disagree.

Well maybe then Weedon’s daughter should have stayed at Eastern?

To claim YOUR kid has the right to select a high academic achieving school, but MY kid has to make do at a failing school, is the height of hypocrisy.[/quote]

The bigger issue is that DCPS willfully refuses to structure middle and high schools in a way that would encourage a larger percentage of the families with kids under the age of 18 to use those schools.  Less than 25% of the students under age 18 are high poverty but over 45% of the students currently using DCPS are.  That means that there is a huge bleed of families---wealthy AND middle class---white and minority---from DCPS.  And no, families should not just be told that they need to shell out $45K or more per year or else move.   They pay taxes.  They too have a right to a school system that meets their needs.  [/quote]

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