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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bottom line is that you need to stop looking to charters as your only choice and get your neighborhoods to rally around your local school.  Ross did it, Garrison and Tubman should be next.  For the last several years the charters have killed the local schools but that has to change now that charters aren't a realistic option for most people.[/quote]

This is hard to do in some neighborhoods, though.  I tried and simply could not rally any parents.  I'm in Ward 4, where there are several good charters, and everyone just assumed that would be their route and that rallying around our neighborhood school was a waste of time.  So I gave up.[/quote]

Right, it didn't work in the past because there were charter spots so rallying didn't seem worth it.  NOW people in Ward 4 should realize that charters aren't going to be an option for most people anymore. with siblings better most of the open spots.  This is the time to make the decision to send your kid to the local school, when lots of other people are in the same boat.[/quote]

We plan to leave the area altogether before K and are happy with our charter so I'm not changing now.  Some other parent can appoint themselves the ringleader now.[/quote]

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