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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think NE DC is both blessed and cursed by the number of good charters nearby.  OTOH, most of the good charters nearby are doable commutes.  OTOH, it's been a disaster for the local in boundary schools which are only just starting to gentrify in the lower grades, if at all.  This dynamic really only applies in the area between Shaw and the Hill.  [/quote]

Seems like charters were necessary in DC's recent history to get educated families to stay in DC instead of heading to the 'burbs.  [b]I wonder if now we're approaching a stage where the proliferation of charters is doing more harm than good, in terms of undermining buy-in for DCPS neighborhood schools.[/b]

I definitely think there's a role for a few, "boutique" charters that offer things that DCPS does not/cannot offer in great numbers--immersion, Montessori, etc.  Any more than that, and it seems it just leads to educated families bypassing the schools in their neighborhoods in a scramble to get into charters.  Not to mention all the traffic it creates, even if some charters are just 2-3 miles away from home.[/quote]

Sorry to be so blunt, but there has never been a time when charters were not undermining DCPS neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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