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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ No, you stop YOUR strawman arguments, because as has already been pointed out, the low SES families have no problem whatsoever getting signed up for every benefit under the sun, so there should be no issue getting signed up for the lottery either.

Also, the transportation argument is a red herring.  Anybody sufficiently motivated can get to a charter.   Latin has the 60, 62, 63, 64 Metrobuses along with several others within a couple of blocks.  I used to walk 2 miles for middle and high school, so what the fuck is this notion of yours that if kids aren't chauffeured from door to door that it's "exclusion"?

Again, your arguments are BULLSHIT.[/quote]

Why are you scared of the facts?  I'm not accusing your or any charters of doing anything wrong.

Your presumption that "low-SES families have no problem whatsoever getting signed up for every benefit under the sun" is transparently false.  Just to give you one example, enrollment rates for Medicaid are well below 100% of eligible familes.  (see here:  http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2012/medicaidtakeup/ib.shtml#t1).   Same goes for food stamp enrollment.  (http://www.nber.org/papers/w19363).  So wherever you wanted to go with this argument, you can lay it to rest.

And I get it that buses can get to Latin.  But if you think that there is no difference between 1.  a kid having to get themselves from Ward 8 to downtown and then having to take a 45 minute bus ride from downtown to Latin; and 2.  a kid walking to and catching a bus that takes half an hour to get from Glover Park to Latin, then you are obtuse.

I get it that  you walked two miles to school.  I congratulate you for that - you obviously were motivated and came from motivated family.  But  not all kids do.  And those are the kids that are not getting into or attending charter schools.

There is no reason for you to be so angry about this set of facts.
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If someone is motivated, they will make whatever it takes happen.  If someone is unmotivated, it would make no difference if someone else did all the work to get them signed up for a charter and chauffeured them door to door, because they quite likely wouldn't take full advantage of the opportunity.  Your whole argument is essentially self-negating.  People have to motivate themselves.  I grew up dirt poor and on an outcast on the wrong side of society in more ways than one, but I made things happen to improve my life, I didn't sit around waiting for others to solve my problems for me, let alone wait around for things to be handed to me, only to then lack appreciation for the few things I did receive and the schools that I could attend.  And so what if someone can't go to a charter anyhow?  Are you harboring some illusion that somehow charters are giving out free ponies and rainbow ice cream?  Are you conceding that DCPS is an unacceptable alternative?  Yes, I'm angry - but no, it's not about your "facts" - it's about your bullshit.  I have little sympathy or patience for you.[/quote]

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