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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a wonderful opportunity. I hope they open it up to charter students as well. This would be great for the immersion charters where students have spent years learning another language.[/quote]

I think the charters will need to create and fund their own study abroad programs.  DCPS students don't get to enjoy charter-schooled funded programs.  You really can't have it both ways.  [/quote]

It isn't having it both ways.   Unless DCPS students are funding their own trips, there is no reasonable way to demand charters self-fund.  They already get less funding than DCPS as it is.

In short, you're totally and completely wrong.[/quote]

Not the PP you're responding to, but please, give us a break.  Try to break out of your entitled charter mindset and see reality: DCPS worked up these relationships and priorities on their own.  I have kids in a charter and there is NO WAY that charters should somehow be included in a program that DCPS has arranged for DCPS students.  If charters want to individually work up relationships or band together and try to apply in a group of charters for similar funds, cool, I wish them luck and hope my charter does too (I'd help!).  But there are tens of thousands of DCPS students who get the short end of so many sticks... this is theirs.  They should have this and I wish them luck, especially since they are looking at "equity" in their criteria.  I hope these trips allow many students to totally expand their world views.

And no, charters should for once take a cue from DCPS and do their own version, not expect to get in on DCPS's program.[/quote]

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