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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was pro-DCPS all through elementary school and up until April of the month we did the middle school charter lottery, got a spot at BASIS, and had a candid conversation with a DCPS middle school teacher who told me straight-up to take the BASIS spot because her DCPS did not meet the needs of advanced students. she wanted to, but the structure of the curriculum, her inabiity to fail students, her principal all kept her from adding enrichment and appropriate instruction for advanced students.

She was really unequivocal and I made my decision immediately after that conversation. She also said getting a seat at BASIS is like getting a prep school education for free, which I think it true about Latin as well. I'm very, very glad we took the spot.

[b]I'm sure I trash talked charters when my kids were young. But the middle school ecosystem in DC is very different than elementary. I recommend doing some research and allowing yourself some grace to change your mind.[/b] [/quote]

Truly appreciate this candor. The trash talking charters and "down with charters" mentality has created an environment in DC where politicians feel comfortable openly under-resourcing charters. It's not a little bit of money - it's estimated at $1,800 per student and that's money that a charter school doesn't have to improve teacher salaries, increase benefits, offer more athletics and clubs or fix sub-par facilities. Ask your charter school principal what they could do with that much more per kid. [/quote]

Why don't you tell us what the city got in return for all the money it spent on Eagle Academy. I'll wait. Forensic accounting takes a while. [/quote]

Why don't you tell us what the city got in return for spending a quarter BILLION dollars on Roosevelt High School? Aside from training the next generation of drug dealers? [/quote]

They got a school that is performing about how demographics would predict, very similar to Girls Global and KIPP Legacy. Roosevelt serves 1000 students who have other options but choose Roosevelt. If you're referring to the renovation, the city got a nice renovation that alleviates overcrowding and maintains safety and functionality. And I believe the modernization cost about $125-$136 million so not sure where you're getting your cost figure.

Please do tell us all about Eagle Academy. How much did this elementary school pay its director? How was its academic performance? What is the lawsuit about? Yaaaay, charters![/quote]

I've never even heard of Eagle Academy but I have heard of Roosevelt High School and Ballou and Woodson and Coolidge and Dunbar and Eastern and Anacostia, and I've also read about how poor black kids in a number of states in the deep south are kicking so much ass on standardized tests....[/quote]

Well then you're not informed enough to have an intelligent discussion. Eagle is bad enough that the council had an oversight hearing about it. https://dccouncil.gov/event/committee-of-the-whole-public-oversight-hearing-19/

If you haven't heard of Eagle, why don't you fill us in on why Rocketship has lost so much enrollment and their test scores are so terrible? Or why KIPP's performance is so poor that one of their schools was nearly closed just recently? Or if you'd like to talk about high schools, tell us all about this one's sudden collapse. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/186259/the-dc-public-charter-school-board-didnt-intervene-in-a-financially-troubled-school/

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I dunno. It seems a little silly when charter haters obsess over tiny, obscure charters that hardly anyone even attends (or attended, because the schools they cite closed years ago) when so much of DCPS looks like a well funded dumper fire. It's quite a trick how DCPS has managed to simultaneously be one of the best funded public school systems in the United States and also one of the worst. The list of schools in this city where teachers are very well paid, the buildings are gorgeous and the number of students working at grade level rounds down to zero percent is embarrassingly long. [/quote]

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