Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emily Lawson has a very impressive resume.

Lots of big name admin, consulting and academic credentilas, and a little education with no actual teaching experience.

Not exactly a teacher who decided to start a charter school.

She does. That MPA with a focus on Education from the Kennedy School of Government? Vice President of Operations for Victory Schools? Director of the summer program at the Academy of the Pacific Rim? Morehead Scholar? Phi Beta Kappa? Something tells me she knows a lot more about success in education than you do.

That aside?

Basis
Bridges
Cap City
EL Haynes
Inspired Teaching
KIPP
Mundo Verde
Stokes
Thurgood Marshall (founded by law students, professors and attorneys)
Two Rivers
Washington Latin
Washington Yu Ying

The nerve of those profiteers, right? (Sure wish we had more of them!)

add LAMB to the list - started by parents and an educator!

Anonymous wrote:17:21, You make me sick. But it takes all kinds. When doubt the call out on this forum is to pinpoint a racist. Honestly, you wouldn't know a racist if they were on sale at a farmer's market. At some point I wish I was a racist for a season, as it spice up the school trend.

New poster here. Seriously, I have no idea what you are saying. I don't know if you are trying to write poetry or to communicate, but the message is not clear. Concentrate more on simple sentences.

17:21, You make me sick. But it takes all kinds. When doubt the call out on this forum is to pinpoint a racist. Honestly, you wouldn't know a racist if they were on sale at a farmer's market. At some point I wish I was a racist for a season, as it spice up the school trend.

Anonymous wrote:Please keep these 2 out of real discussions until they have a track record of success - one year of success with 3 and 4 year olds still has you in the category of a daycare. The "feel good factor" is not enough to include them in a serious conversations about educational models to reproduce. Even Tier 4 schools somehow have happy parents that like their school. I know they are the 2 rookie favorites of DCUM, but let's be real!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The previous post should read like this:

"Yes, they are doing a better job. That's exactly why an outside authority recommended closing more DCPS and opening more charters. Go back and read the conclusions.

Also, many charters are started by parents and by educators, they're not here to make a profit. If they were, they wouldn't have gone into education. "

Response:
Many charters are started by parents and educators?? Name them please.

Mundo Verde. Inspired Teaching.

No thank you.

The assertion was "Check the websites and you'll see that several of these were not started by parents or educators" Their age is immaterial to the point they were started by parents and/or educators.

Please keep these 2 out of real discussions until they have a track record of success - one year of success with 3 and 4 year olds still has you in the category of a daycare. The "feel good factor" is not enough to include them in a serious conversations about educational models to reproduce. Even Tier 4 schools somehow have happy parents that like their school. I know they are the 2 rookie favorites of DCUM, but let's be real!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The previous post should read like this:

"Yes, they are doing a better job. That's exactly why an outside authority recommended closing more DCPS and opening more charters. Go back and read the conclusions.

Also, many charters are started by parents and by educators, they're not here to make a profit. If they were, they wouldn't have gone into education. "

Response:
Many charters are started by parents and educators?? Name them please.

Mundo Verde. Inspired Teaching.

Anonymous wrote:Emily Lawson has a very impressive resume.

Lots of big name admin, consulting and academic credentilas, and a little education with no actual teaching experience.

Not exactly a teacher who decided to start a charter school.

She does. That MPA with a focus on Education from the Kennedy School of Government? Vice President of Operations for Victory Schools? Director of the summer program at the Academy of the Pacific Rim? Morehead Scholar? Phi Beta Kappa? Something tells me she knows a lot more about success in education than you do.

That aside?

Basis
Bridges
Cap City
EL Haynes
Inspired Teaching
KIPP
Mundo Verde
Stokes
Thurgood Marshall (founded by law students, professors and attorneys)
Two Rivers
Washington Latin
Washington Yu Ying

The nerve of those profiteers, right? (Sure wish we had more of them!)

Emily Lawson has a very impressive resume.

Lots of big name admin, consulting and academic credentilas, and a little education with no actual teaching experience.

Not exactly a teacher who decided to start a charter school.

Anonymous wrote:Do poor people depend on statistics? Is it at all possible that the black poor are not un-educated. If those as whites can no longer afford to provide private education for their children. Due to finances they begin sending their children to an excellent public school, would one consider that an educated or financial decision?

Now the black families are already present at this excellent school merely because it was their first and only choice. Then two groupings of families meet, one is poor and one is uneducated. Yet both want the best education for their children while residing in DC.

Is it possible for both families to co-exist from pre-k3 to high-school?

Oh dear. It's the funny-smoker/word-salad poster again.

Doubtful.
Yes.
I think the answer is "possibly" but I can't really understand the question.
Probably.

Now, instead of the weird hypotheticals, would you please just say what you really mean? You have an IB child for (limited choices here based on your previous lines of argument) Maury? The school is browner than you would like, but at least your (white) snowflake's minority is in double-digits. If something catastrophic happened to close the higher-performing charters which are sucking children out of your neighborhood (impossible), would snowflake's minority cohort drop to single digits?

I don't know, closeted-racist, I don't know.

The scenario of which you are in such abject fear is almost as likely as Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitt re-uniting. Even then, your snowflake's school(s) might get an influx of upper-middle-class parents from Two Rivers, Yu Ying, and Latin. Based on your tone (or what can be discerned from it, as you're really good at not making sense) this would be a plus for you. Alas, they'd mostly either move or rent apartments on Connecticut Ave. to escape snowflake's school, which they have so far successfully managed to avoid.

There. Comfy, yet?

Do poor people depend on statistics? Is it at all possible that the black poor are not un-educated. If those as whites can no longer afford to provide private education for their children. Due to finances they begin sending their children to an excellent public school, would one consider that an educated or financial decision?

Now the black families are already present at this excellent school merely because it was their first and only choice. Then two groupings of families meet, one is poor and one is uneducated. Yet both want the best education for their children while residing in DC.

Is it possible for both families to co-exist from pre-k3 to high-school?

Yu Ying was definitely founded by parents. A parent was instrumental in bringing Basis here and the original Basis was founded by parents. Shining Star Montessori was also founded by educators and parents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The previous post should read like this:

"Yes, they are doing a better job. That's exactly why an outside authority recommended closing more DCPS and opening more charters. Go back and read the conclusions.

Also, many charters are started by parents and by educators, they're not here to make a profit. If they were, they wouldn't have gone into education. "

Response:
Many charters are started by parents and educators?? Name them please.

Mundo Verde. Inspired Teaching.

Thanks. That's two. Two is not "many."

Cap City, EL Haynes, Bridges, Two Rivers, Washington Yu Ying, Washington Latin, DC Prep, Basis...

Say, this list is starting to look a lot like the list of charters which get all the love and adoration on this board.

Oh, and at least 10? Is "many" after all.

Check the websites and you'll see that several of these were not started by parents or educators -- haynes, DC Prep, Yu Ying, Basis

What do you know? Here's the background on Emily Lawson, founder of DC Prep. If she's not an educator, she's doing a fine job of pretending:

Ms. Emily K. Lawson is Founder and Executive Director of D.C. Preparatory Academy. Previously, she was one of the original employees and the Vice President of Operations for Victory Schools, a school management company. Previously, she was a member of the start-up team and the Director of the summer program at the Academy of the Pacific Rim, a Boston charter school. She worked as an Associate of New Mountain Capital. Ms. Lawson joined New Mountain during its period of formation in 1999. Ms. Lawson worked as an Associate Consultant of The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. from 1993 to 1996, with a focus on health care and consumer products. She holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a M.P.A., with a focus on education, from the Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Lawson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. As Executive Director, she will oversee D.C. Prep and be directly responsible for finance, real estate, governance, development, and external partnerships.