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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GO TO MARYLAND. Good riddance. I would much rather have a neighbor who is invested in our community than one who opts out. Please move, seriously. [/quote]

Charters ARE part of the community and the data shows they doing a better job at getting kids to graduate than DCPS. Perhaps you should go to Virginia where charter schools aren't even allowed. [/quote]

Neighborhoods are communities. Charters actively fight any ties to educating their neighborhoods' children. Charters are interested in fostering tribes, not community.

But keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better. Most people in your echo chamber probably find you entirely sincere. [/quote]

Oooooohhh, now I understand who you are!  You're another bitter person who didn't get into the highly regarded charter that is in your neighborhood and you're pissed that there's no neighborhood preference!  You resent that people from other far away wards got in but you don't have a right!

You're not concerned about DC's kids overall at all, so stop trying to fool us, it ain't working.  Being angry that charters don't allow neighborhood preference shows you support the old system that, when unchallenged by competition produced a very very bottom line "Haves" and "Have nots" IB structure that either you could afford to buy into, or you couldn't.  You didn't send your kids to school in Wards 5, 7 or 8 twelve years ago to "invest in community", so why are you calling on people to do something you didn't even do yourself?

Anyone who harps on the fact that charters do NOT give neighborhood preference is bitter that they actually offer an OPTION to families who live near crappy neighborhood schools TODAY.  When you are willing to sacrifice your kids' educations TODAY in the hopes of making the worst of the worst schools better TOMORROW for someone else's kids, then we'll listen to you.  But now you're just bitter that charters don't give you what you want.  District-wide lotteries give families with awful options today better options for their kids TODAY.  It's up to DCPS to do the work to improve the schools in basic ways (which, actually, I think they're doing a better job of now than they've ever done) so people WANT to go to those schools and not trek across DC.  Until then though, who are you to try to deny families a choice today for their kids who need educating TODAY?[/quote]

Actually, you're completely wrong. I send my child to my in-boundary DCPS which was ranked #1 on our submission to the lottery. I am invested in my community.

You are the one who is only concerned for yourself. Again, please move. PLEASE. Just go away. [/quote]

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