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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b] On our block full of kids[/b], 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]

[b]But the point is you were able to get into a charter. [/b] Most people now cannot.  What if everyone on your block just made the decision to go to the local school and really be involved?  There is no other option so isn't it worth it to try?  Or is everyone just going to up and move now?[/quote]

Disclaimer:  This is an honest question, not intended to goad or annoy anyone.

Do you have access to birth data in DC?  I must be doing something wrong, because all the census data I'm finding is ancient.  Has there truly been a spike in births in the past 5 years or so?[/quote]

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