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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, higher class people can move or pay for private.  Education is too important to be left to chance or in the hands of those without a good track record.  Otherwise, you see the results years later and they aren't pretty.

[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Sounds like conclusions are that charter schools take the pressure off of higher economic status families to put their kids in DCPS, so there probably won't be yuppie/buppie/etc. Kids in bad DCPS schools unless somehow we run out of decent charters.  Which seems unlikely given their rapid growth.  So it looks like we might actually end up with two tiers of schools east of Rock Creek Park, or maybe even 3 or 4: bad DCPS, good charters, middling charters and middling DCPS.  But demographic pressure to move into the truly failing DCPS as higher class people move in just doesn't seem very common or likely.  [/quote][/quote]

Two points:   First, more and more of the middle-class folks who are moving into DC are not "higher class" and can't necessarily pay for private without bankrupting themselves, so they have a much greater incentive to make public school work than before.  Secondly, the result of sending your middle-class kid to a school with a mixed socioeconomic profile are much like sending to private for middle-class kids whose mother's have a high level of educational attainment.  In fact, when compared with mom's education, school quality is largely irrelevant.[/quote]

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