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Hold on - the "retrograde, stagnant, old school" IMHO is NOT the charter school community - you are confused on that point - it continues to be the same DCPS political culture that resisted charters in the first place - and which now resists innovation and change, things like magnets, test-in or G&T because they are deathly afraid that it will end up with white kids, these are the same people who rail against gentrifiers, the same folks who cling to the old school "Chocolate City" image from the 1970s even as that image continues to melt.  It's the age old story of "we fear change".[/quote]

You really are a shit stirrer spewing your prejudices. I bet you are a relative newcomer in the city as well and think you know all about the comings and goings of the politics. If your position is that the DC citizens of old are holding onto change in the schools, who exactly do you think pushed for the charter movement and private school vouchers. Who do you think fled DCPS and into the new innovative charters that popped up everywhere except ward 3 in the city. Who do you think keep these charters, good and bad, afloat. And who do you think started the originally test-in DC schools, such as SWW and Banneker. You are a carpetbagger who thinks she is better and smarter than the people who have endured and been around fighting for change.

Thank you to the poster who coined this statement, but bitch, bye and take your ass back to Kansas. [/quote]

Your knowledge of history is totally messed up there - SWW and Banneker are totally separate from the charters, they came about all the way back in the '70s and '80s, as opposed to the charter reform that happened in the mid '90 and there were totally different factions of players involved.  You are totally full of crap if you are trying to take credit for being involved in all of it.  Sorry, but you're busted.
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I can't be busted since I graduated from DCPS during the 80s. The point is that the people who you attempt to denigrate are the ones that fought to get the SWW and Bannekers before there were test-in schools.  The same people who hailed the charters that came along 20 years later.  They were not totally different factions.  [/quote]

Maybe you have some warm, fuzzy, commingled idea of the "reform movement" but anyone who's actually been part of the charter movement will tell you that the DCPS establishment to include SWW and Banneker staunchly opposed charters.[/quote]

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