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[quote=Anonymous][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]

+1, except substitute Ward 5[/quote]

+2 another Ward 5.  We live within walking distance to 3 soon to be 4 charters, two which are impossible to get into.  On our block full of kids, no one attends the inbound DCPS.  We drive to our sought after charter, 10 minutes door to door.  The charter schools beats our IB DCPS by a mile and we would move before sending our kid there.[/quote]
NP here, Ward 4. Am I the only one for whom the 2008 school closures deflated any sense of getting involved in the local school? My pre-closure involvement was limited to attending a few meetings and being aware of school events, but I did plan to do more volunteering when my child got closer to school age. But when that school was closed, and I was told that our address had "rights to" two different schools, I didn't know where to put my energy. The elementary boundary map, with its big purple blotches overlying boundaries of closed schools, made little sense to me.  I assumed that after that first year, surely the boundaries would change and I'd volunteer at my new neighborhood school then.  But despite my entreaties to the Chancellor, my council member and my board of ed rep, nothing happened.

Now my child is 6 and at a charter. I like to think I'll volunteer at /donate to my neighborhood school once I have one, but who knows when that would be?[/quote]

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