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[quote=Anonymous]^ You're the one throwing around the strawman that charters are hurting DCPS.  Disadvantaged kids are a problem that DCPS already had before charters and will continue to have regardless of the existence of charters.  Charters did not make that problem any worse.  If anything, charters can allow DCPS to focus on that problem.  Like I said, you need to teach the kids that you have, not the ones that you want to have.

Perhaps you think it's somehow the job of the more advantaged kids to somehow fix the problems of the less advantaged kids?

Do you think that somehow DCPS schools magically get better if only they have enough advantaged kids?  That the "tide to lift every boat" will somehow come from merely having the right kids in the school, that nothing else needs to happen in order for that to occur?  Or are you just looking to mask the problems that exist among the less advantaged, by diluting them among numbers of more advantaged students?

I really don't see that argument as having any sound grounding in reality.  The problems are a lot deeper and need more robust solutions than that.  Again, blaming charters is intellectually dishonest and merely looking to push charter students back into DCPS schools doesn't really propose any bonafide solutions.[/quote]

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