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[quote=Anonymous]PP, I agree.   Middle class parents EOP are so desparate to get out of their neighborhood schools that they are going to charters that are geared for the low income kids.  Then they realize the charter has these kids too albeit maybe less of them.  But even those kids disrupt classes for the well behaved ones and often administrators are loathe to get rid of them.  So you see a mass exodus in the upper grades.  A lot of parents get out as soon as they can find an alternative and sadly, the great teachers leave too.  If you have a bright child, you can't sacrifice him or her.

[quote=Anonymous][b]Those rowdy kids are in almost every DCPS and charter after 2nd grade. It's DC! [/b]

KIPP schools, and other charters geared to low-income kids, provide much more support to help rowdy kids (often without a father at home) settle down in a school setting than most.  Without G&T programs in DCPS, it is common enough for upper-middle-class families to feel that their well-behaved, advanced kids (which would obviously not include every better-off child) are being overlooked.  Get a clue DCPS, different DC populations have different needs in school.  I feel discouraged when I hear about affluent families leaving the system because their children get insufficient attention - poor kids are the biggest losers when this happens.

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