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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does  Expeditionary/Outward Bound even mean? All of these schools are niche schools...quasi-private schools designed to help people avoid local schools. Then the local schools fail for want of students and are shuttered. If the charters fail, they are shuttered. If DCPS is really going to work, [b]all of the DCPS need to implement the common core and close all of the charter schools, so parents are forced to send their kids to the corner school or pay for private.[/b] We always act as if charters are the results of bad DCPS schools, but what if charters are just the result of Congress, and act to make DCPS schools worse and worse...[/quote]

Won't work.  You can't force parents to enroll their children in schools they don't approve of.  It was tried in the 50s and the result was "white flight" and MoCo & NoVa grew at DC's expense as their taxpayer base abandoned the city.  DC got a double-dose when high SES AAs were equally fed up with DCPS and left for PG County.

Some 43% of public school students are now in charters, so you don't have the power to inflict that kind of damage you'd like.  (Not to mention, how is DCPS going to find room for them anyway?  Or recreate the language options, advanced classes, year-round programs etc. that these families now expect?)

Finally, it might seem simple to you to create social experiments of all those children, but when you suggest you know more about what's best for them, you are trying to usurp their parents' rights to make those decisions.  It might not have occurred to you, but that is morally wrong.  Controlling other people's lives is morally wrong.  My child is not going to be a slave to the betterment of your system.  I'm confident I'm not alone in that opinion.

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