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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there are many instances when white people will choose segregation over a better school.

When certain suburbs and schools become too asian, white people move out:

https://psmag.com/news/ghosts-of-white-people-past-witnessing-white-flight-from-an-asian-ethnoburb

Many of the "highly regarded" charter schools east-of-the-park are objectively worse than the DCPS schools in the same neighborhoods, but are (or were) whiter. White parents move their kids there to be with other white kids.

I think it's reasonable to question why white parents don't encourage their kids to apply to Bannaker...[/quote]

which charter schools? I can’t think of any that meet that description. [/quote]

I’ll play. How about creative minds charter school. It had buzz a few years ago, but Burroughs in the same neighborhood outperformed it. The stars system that was put in place a couple years ago makes it easier to compare schools, but that wasn’t available until recently.[/quote]

oh, interesting. yeah, I can see DCUM having a role in creating an echo chamber like that.  Like Paybe has test scores just as good as TRY but Payne is still somewhat suspect on DCUM. [/quote]

I actually think it's the artificial limit of being able to list 12 schools that creates weird self-perpetuating buzz around charters. I live on the Hill. When my oldest kid was in PK3, our first priority by far was getting her a PK3 spot somewhere. Our first choice would actually have been Maury followed by L-T, because of our location & our preference for neighborhood schools & more traditional curriculum. However, we obviously listed neither of those schools, because we weren't in bound for either and had 0 chance of getting in. Instead, our third choice (and also, obviously, an excellent school) became our first choice: SWS; because we had some chance, however small. I then listened to parents who weren't sure where to apply/didn't have time or inclination to do research, confidently announce that SWS was the best school on the Hill, because it was the most popular. That then becomes self-perpetuating. Look how many people applied! It's hard to get into! Let me lottery for it even though I'm IB for Maury, because why not? It must be desirable because so many people want it. Anyway, I know that's just a microcosm, but I think WAY more IB schools would be listed if people had unlimited lottery picks and that might actually lead to a slight shift towards DCPS IBs over time. Just my two cents.[/quote]

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