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I agree with this as well.  But, I am also a little dismayed at the NIMBY mentality here.  Are there really people that don't want good public schools in all neighborhoods?  That makes me sad.[/quote]
How would you feel if your streets were tied up with folks dropping their kids off at a beautiful shiny new building, while you're walking your kids to the local crap DCPS? And when you ask whether your child might join what looks like a great alternative, you're told that you can enter the lottery, but your best chance of getting in is for PS3, and last year the waitlist had 200+ names on it? That's the issue, not folks not wanting "good public schools in all neighborhoods."[/quote]
 
You understand that your resentment doesn't make logical sense, right?  You have the exact same odds getting in as any other family.  Contrast that with your odds of getting in to a good JKLM via OOB?

Do you always try to drag everyone else down, instead of pulling yourself up?[/quote]
Yup, the exact same odds.  [b]And headaches that lucky families don't have.[/b]

What I've said throughout this thread is that charters should not be shocked to meet resentment from their neighbors, and should work to make themselves a visible positive presence in the community where they're located.  Not by boasting that the're helping improve the quality of education District-wide, but by working to actually mitigate their presence--say, by helping clean up the park where their students play, and working with the neighborhood to find solutions when problems arise (rather than by explaining that the neighborhood should approach them, or it's because they've worked so hard to set up the school they have no energy for anything else, or the city won't give them enough money for a playground of their own...)[/quote]
 
Sorry, still can't unpack this statement.  As a property owner, I want to see highly-regarded schools in my neighborhood.  I want to see them whether or not I have children, whether or not my children attend them, and whether or not they are charters/magnets/neighborhood schools.[/quote]
The headaches I was referring to were those that come with any school's presence in the neighborhood.  Traffic is a constant; there can also be construction noise, illegal/unsafe parking, kids from the school overrunning the playground or the library story hour...[/quote]

I do hate seeing MV parents park illegally with flashers on. Don't do that people! Otherwise, I think most of MV activities are absorbed into the urban neighborhood.[/quote]

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