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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is DCPS has lots of faults. But it also has to educate every kid. And ultimately when you create a system where privileged people can opt out, you create a vacuum where the charters have no reason to improve because they have enough families who will opt in and can kick out the kids not performing, and you have DCPS which has little incentive to improve because wealthier parents either concentrate in one area or opt out.

So no one is really improving or being forced to excel, charter or public, because the system does not incentive it.

It sucks. It's also not unique and a real problem with the US education landscape as a whole.[/quote]

DCPS has to educate every neighborhood kid that enrolls and it runs its own choice program - selective high schools, out of boundary etc. No one ever publishes the rates of the out of boundary kids at DCPS who get sent back to their home school for behavior, attendance, etc. [b]These forced transfers [/b]also push students back to DCPS schools. It would be great if information was more transparent so that there could be real analysis of where students are disappearing from some schools and ending up at others, especially mid-year. The public information that is available is on re-enrollment rates. A look at Ward 7 and 8 DCPS high schools has re-enrollment rates somewhere in the low 70's on average. Nearly 30% of students of those schools are either ending up nowhere, at other DCPS choice schools or at charters. So our system needs to support all of the choices because our families are using all of the choices. It's not just the privileged who are opting out. There may be notable failures (or failures to thrive) in the charter sector but that's true in DCPS as well. The notable failures aren't the only story though. There are charters that are doing well and/or improving and the same is true for DCPS.

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"Forced transfers" is education consultant speak for CONSEQUENCES. There's a vocal minority in DC that thinks consequences are bad/unfair/discriminatory. I think most parents think them necessary. [/quote]

Do you like it as much when the expelled kids end up at your kid's school?[/quote]

That's a false choice. I like consequences...full stop. Kids who fail should not be advanced just because some SJW whines about 18 years olds in 3rd grade classes.

What's your argument? There should be no consequences? [/quote]

Schools like BASIS and Latin give F's to kids all the time. It's only DCPS that's squeamish about failing kids because low expectations are the water in which DCPS swims. [/quote]

This is why I didn’t feel comfortable moving my kid from a strong charter to an application school. I know the other classmates are used to getting attendance As. [/quote]

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