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Until the Latin, KIPP, DC Prep, Two Rivers, and DCI feeders don't have WLs a mile long, we'll continue to need charter middle schools.[/quote]

I wouldn't suggest shutting them down - they provide special offerings, are available to children from areas not IB to the new and improved middle schools, and probably help to keep DCPS on their toes.  But NEW charter middle schools may not be needed - use up the capacity in the DCPS middle schools (including the four new ones) first.  [/quote]

You're not on the charter board.  One of the new ones approved to open next year is Washington Global MS.  + a new campus at Two Rivers.[/quote]

And that may well be a mistake given DC's planned investments in middle schools.  It will be up to the next mayor to address the issue of coordinating charter and DCPS plans. [/quote]

Are you kidding me?  We need to "protect" DC's investments in its middle school by limiting access to charter schools?   What about the actual education of actual children, which, despite financial investment, DCPS seems completely unable to pull off at any middle school with a significant number of non-wealthy students.  Lets see some successes and some innovative programming ( not necessarily big financial investments, simply smart and savvy planning anfd management of resources )  before trying to limit access to other public middle school programs that seem to be having success.   Having desirable DCPS middle schools is a matter of skill and political will in many cases, not just money[/quote]

In other words, when DCPS makes the correct investments in middle schools, then the charter schools won't pose a threat.  Otherwise it is simply smoke and mirrors to try to use our kids to improve failing schools.[/quote]

Here is what makes me a bit skeptical of this statement:  this entire thread.

DCPS has put tons of new resources into Hardy.   They added the gifted and talented program plus more honors courses and extra differentiation.

But nobody seems to care about this actual fact; instead we get 50+ pages boiling down to "Yeah, but how many white kids go there?"[/quote]

I can't know what exactly is still holding those parents back. But I do know that the charter schools they are choosing instead are super mixed by race and include addresses from all over the city.  That seems to argue against your simplistic race-based conclusion[/quote]

My conclusion was neither simplistic nor race based, so don't be so dismissive.

My conclusion was that people are ignoring all the money, resources, and improvements that DCPS has made at Hardy while loudly claiming that their main concern is that they want DCPS to make improvements.   And it's not that they are assessing them and concluding they are not good enough.  They are not even asking about them.  They do not even know that they exist - and they do not even seem to care, based on the fact that over and over and over again the question is not "How are the new Hardy honors classes and programs," but "How many IB kids are at Hardy."

So how do we overcome the problem of people ignoring everything good that DCPS and rRincipal Pride are doing at Hardy?[/quote]

I would then conclude that DCPS isn't doing it right or else those people are lost causes with their heads up their bums and we should just forget about them entirely. If there one and only metric is how many IB families ( which I doubt it is ) then forget about them.[/quote]

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