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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many PPs knocking charters send their kids to achools with very low FARMS rates (typically having fewer behavior issues) or to private schools?

[b]If you have already insulated your child from having to deal with a school environment where behavior issues are a serious factor then it is pretty hypocritical to take an anti-charter school stance. 
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- mom of a kid at a MoCo Focus school. [/quote]

Well, it is, and it isn't. It's possible to be against segregation of public schools by income (the problem with MCPS and DCPS, not to mention all of the school districts in the country explicitly set up to exclude poor kids) AND ALSO against segregation of public schools by parental ability to work the system/absence of special needs (the problem with charters).

That doesn't mean that you're a bad person if you send your child to a charter school. You are doing the best you can with the options available to you (just as I am doing the best I can in MCPS with the options available to me). What it does mean is that there are fundamental problems with the public education system.[/quote]

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