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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you take your child out of MCPS if there was a private school voucher program so Montgomery County residents had school choice?[/quote]

Sure, if you want to ruin any chance of an average family getting their kids a great education. [/quote]
yeah, giving families MORE choice really ruins that :roll: [/quote]

Go lurk on the DCPS board and tell me if more choice is creating better outcomes. I lived and worked in DC and I did not see a lot of positive outcomes from charters /school lottery unless you got a really good number or sibling preference. There was also a lot of situations where parents would be hopping from one school to the other or school is playing Hot potato to try and get rid of students[/quote]

This describes our entire experience with DCPS. I don't blame the families seeking the best outcomes for their kids, but every year my child was in school there, their friends left for better lottery picks. Every single year. And of the half of their class that remained in their charter school? Half again mysteriously vanished mid-year.

I remember one kid, I used to volunteer and he and I were friends. He was really smart but he wasn't doing well academically and he had some behavior stuff--nothing worse than my own ASD kid, really. (Who at the time was undxed) But he was less blonde and his parents were less rich. One day he came up to me. He looked like he'd been crying.

"I wanted to say good-bye," he said.

I didn't really get it. The principal (who would be fired herself n six months) was hovering behind him and so were his parents. I smiled and said bye. I think I knew, but I wanted to be wrong.

That was his last day. I never found out why.

I think of him and the other kids that left that school mid-year a lot, actually. I also think of my daughter's classmates who graduated with her. We moved to MD. They all ended up at T3 charter middle schools. A few of those schools were closed in the next few years, meaning they'd change again. One girl did lottery into Latin.

She got the golden ticket. [/quote]

Sorry, I said DCPS, but I meant DCCS or whatever it's called, actually. Before the charter school thing we ourselves did one year with DCPS too. It was also a hot garbage fire, although I have to admit the academics were good. [/quote]

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