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@SJE: if the result of "economic integration" is that the rich kids don't learn, then the rich kids will go elsewhere.

The charters are the end-run around this problem, because now if a kid from a poor family can get out of the bad school in his/her neighborhood, and get a slot in a better school. The amount of money necessary for school mobility has become cheaper -- now all parent needs is a hoopdie and the time to shuttle junior across town, instead of a down payment on a house. Result: the really bad schools empty out, and DCPS can not justify them, so they get closed; and the better schools expand. Being rich has lost some of its advantage.

Obviously the well-off families will find other strategies to regain that advantage. In the mean time the charters are a means for DC to shed the worst schools without the pain of a trilogy of 4-act operatic political fights with DCPS. At the end of the day, DC schools become more competitive with the suburbs.

by goldfish on Jul 24, 2012 11:37 am • link • report

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