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No, what is unreasonable is for a public school to  exclude kids who do not meet their standards. Public charters have autonomy to design their schools, and many do a great job! That autonomy, however, is not from dealing with less desirable kids in the community.[/quote]

So no Duke Ellington HS because all the teenagers in the city can't sing, dance, act and play musical instruments well enough for them?   So now SWW or Bannker becasue all kids ages 14-18 can't meet their academic standards?

What is unreasonable is keeping talented kids back in school, whether their talents are in music, sports, art, reading, math, vocational subjects like electronics, auto repair and welding, or whatever, because do-gooders like you and the politically cowardly in power don't offer them and their parents appropriate programs.

Less desirable kids can suddenly become desirable when moved to a setting in which their unique talents are in high demand.  My older DC pratically flunked out of one private last year; now he's a star athlete and computer geek at another.  Until public school parents start to think more like private school parents, DC is free to support one of the city's lowest-performing school systems.  You can't blame poverty anywmore, not when urban school systems in Philly and Baltimore, with higher poverty rates and just as much race segregation, are better overall.

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