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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't fix under enrollment at Brookland so long as it feeds to Dunbar.

It's a sysiphean task.

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It is a huge task but it can work.  Stuart-Hobson feeds to Eastern but parents have [b]made a lot of progress there in the last 20 years.[/b][/quote]

The key phrase is 20 years. I would imagine OP has a child who is already born, and will need a MS option she's confident in sooner than that.[/quote]

I'm the OP, and have a K child.  I don't think it would take 20 years to fill up the building.  I think if they offer an IB program, there would be increased demand next year.  Look at the incredible demand for charters that offer desirable programming.  Many of them have no track record, and terrible facilities.  And yet the people flock to them.  This isn't that hard.[/quote]

a lot of charters are self selecting-higher income SES families who can travel distances in the morning and afternoon to the school. [/quote]

No.  They're buying buildings that are available since they can't have access to the failing DCPS schools they surpass.  It just so happens that because they have to pay market prices for large buildings (instead of being given access to the ones the law requires them to be given - like failing schools), they're less metro convenient.

You might not have noticed this, but houses, condos, businesses, retail outlets, restaurants, and just about everything else you want to visit costs more when it is metro accessible.  So when you force a school to compete with a business or a development to get a building, it might not be able to afford one right on top of a metro station.

In other news, water is expected to be wet.[/quote]

The property marketplace, selected locations, and lottery process most definitely makes for a situation wherein certain high demand charters become exclusive to mid-to-high SES families.

No sense in denying this.  It certainly pays out to the lottery winners.

Proximity to mid-to-high SES families and more and more mid-to-high SES families will just increase this trend.

We can wring our hands about DCPS, but the reality is that only a small minority of mid-to-high SES families are investing in DCPS in transitioning neighborhoods.

If the system mandated charters to enroll a certain percent economically disadvantaged, it could be done.  That isn't the system in place.  Not saying it should be, but the lottery system snowballs mid-to-high SES for in demand charters - no matter where they are located.[/quote]

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