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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I often think there are two DCs.  The dynamic, innovative, progressive and cosmopolitan DC which has the best and brightest coming from all over the country and all over the world to try and make a change - versus a stagnant, old-school, retrograde core that's resistant to change.

That's why thread after thread boils over here.  Movers and shakers bringing something better or pushing for something better and then those who did nothing either feeling threatened and lashing out at everyone or asking where their piece of the pie is.[/quote]

You obviously forgot the 3rd DC: the one full of people who think that the only way to be "dynamic, innovative, progressive and cosmopolitan" is to have policies, plans and structures that serve your middle and upper classes and push lower classes out.  Because that is pretty much what you're saying about the fact that the public charter school board does not allow charters to test in at any grade because it doesn't want to cut out access to families who can't afford a private Mandarin tutor, or Spanish summer camp, or private Montessori schools until they can nab a spot at a public one.

You do a disservice to visionary people everywhere who who are dynamic, innovative and progressive who actually want a present and a future where EVERYONE is served well, not just a DC where only those who can afford to live here and go to school here (even in public school).  When you trash the policy of not testing in for charter schools, you trash one of the fundamental values that DC charter schools were developed for: offering other quality options to DC residents who had the worst of options.  Guess who those DC residents were when charters were first established here?  Not you, not me, not OP, because we weren't sending our kids ot public school then (unless we lived IB for the only decent middle or high school).  To turn around and say you can test in absolutely undermines the commitment to providing access to ALL DC residents (just like neighborhood preference would as well).  No, that is NOT "stagnant, old-school and retrograde being resistent to change.

Deal with it entitled people: the very people preventing a test in option are the "stagnant, old-school, retrograde" people who were part of creating the charter schools that you so desperately want entry to now.  Trying to keep the door even faintly open for lower SES families and families who don't have geographic advantages of being IB for great DCPS schools is NOT stagnant, and while I do hope there will some day be a way to figure out increasing applications and interest from families who already speak Mandarin or French or whatever, so that the pool of applicants includes more native speakers, I defend to the end the randomness of admission and the fact that kids who herwise wouldn't have a shot in a million years at speaking Mandarin and all the doors that may open to that child, that that child has a shot - a loooooong shot (like everyone else's long shot), but a shot nonetheless, at going to a school like Yu Ying.[/quote]

You really have that messed up.  The policies that what innovators want is what is considered "normal" in the rest of America.  That being, good schools, with good teachers, that teach a robust curriculum and prepare kids for the challenges of the future, which model and enforce good behavior, rather than just coddling kids, looking the other way when kids beat each other up "oh, that's just boys being boys" and serving as nothing more than a glorified daycare.  Nobody is trying to "push people out" but by the same token, more and more people are getting fed up with the Marion Barry old school style politics of KEEPING underskilled, undereducated, undisciplined, unmotivated people in that state even though there's no jobs or affordable living for them.

Now THAT is doing people a disservice - keeping them trapped in ghettoes, dependent on handouts.

People like me CREATE the environment that we want.  Sorry, but that's not "entitlement".

We don't sit around whining about the environment that we've been handed like YOU do, we work our asses off and change it. YOU are the "entitled" one who just sits back, thinking the sweet, juicy apples just fall from the heavens and land in everyone's laps and how unfair it is that some people end up with more than others, totally not understanding that most of us ended up where we are only through A HELL OF A LOT OF HARD WORK.  You want something better, START DOING YOUR PART, same as the rest of us do.[/quote]

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