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BarracudaAcademic539 t1_je9r5cy wrote

Rule should be you can only post on this thread if you have a kid in DCPS, and I’m not talking about the opt out charter schools.

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geedunkgeek t1_jeccqd8 wrote

The rule should be only the folks who end up with these “graduates” in their workforce can comment, because parents overestimate their little snowflakes’ intelligence. Most of these kids can barely read, so I have no clue how they’re graduating from the 8th grade, let alone high school. It’s an embarrassment.

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Surefinewhatever1111 t1_je9zr3d wrote

Charters educate half the city's kids, might be the majority at some point. Maybe DCPS parents should sit this one out.

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BarracudaAcademic539 t1_jealy5a wrote

Yeah. charters skim off the kids with parents that care enough to apply and/or lottery.

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Surefinewhatever1111 t1_jeammom wrote

The parents who GAF having better outcomes? Damn that must make you so mad. Before the lottery they'd camp out in front of out of boundary schools just to try to do better for their kids.

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BarracudaAcademic539 t1_jeat784 wrote

Not mad but I do think that charters inhibit the betterment of neighborhood schools.I send my kid to a neighbor school and many highly engaged neighbors see theirs to charters. I’d love to have the neighborhood school have those engaged parents and their PTA fund raising ability helping out DCPS and all those kids who’s parents don’t “GAF”.

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Surefinewhatever1111 t1_jeawb67 wrote

>charters inhibit the betterment of neighborhood schools.

Absolutely nonsense. They had DECADES to improve themselves before charters and never made an effort to do so. DCPS, especially the Central Office, is a jobs program for Ward 9 and the shills who depend on it.

No one in my neighborhood who cares about their kids sends theirs to the local.

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BarracudaAcademic539 t1_jeb3lic wrote

“Improve themselves”? Schools are only as good as the parents that send their kids to them. The best teachers and administrators can only make so much of a difference. I’ve seen this with both my kids going to two different city schools. This is the falacy of public education. The main factor are the parents. Schools can do little to move the needle beyond what the home environment provides.

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