Lafayette Principal
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Anonymous
| From an inquiring new parent -- it sounds like from the posts above that Lafayette doesn't differentiate in classrooms (or doesn't do it effectively) -- is this true? I had heard (3rd hand) that they do differentiate, and do it well. Are there any current parents who know more? |
Anonymous
They do during the class- so there are reading groups, pull out enrichment and remediation for math etc. Like all things some parents would like more, some would like less. My kids are advanced and always in the top reading groups and math abilities and I find it plenty challenging. They are not bored. |
Anonymous
| How does the new principal address kids with IEPs, and kids who need a bit extra social support? Wasn't that something Lafayette specialized in? |
Anonymous
Only 6% of Lafayette students have IEPs. Really low compared to most DCPS schools. |
Anonymous
| Wow, that's really low -- is there a reason for that? Doesn't Murch have close to 20%? |
Anonymous
Well Murch has a self-contained classroom that draws children from other parts of the city. The average is about 12%. |
Anonymous
No idea about that figure. But I do know that next year there will be two self-contained classes of kids with special needs. |
Anonymous
Disturbingly low. The statistical average is 10%-13% nationwide. A school that's far outside that range is doing something to exclude those students or refuse to serve them as the law requires. |
Anonymous
| Looks like they have 9 support people on staff, including 2 counselors, a psychologist, instructional coaches, OT, speech etc. How could they only have 6% IEPs? |
Anonymous
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If I had a SpEd elementary school, I'd be on Lafayette like a duck on a June Bug.
Time to start serving and obeying the Civil Rights law, folks! |
Anonymous
I have one high performer and one low performer, and I've been disappointed on both ends. My high performer reached (and exceeded) his grade's reading benchmarks in February. At that point, all of reading time was free reading, while the teacher focused on those who were not yet at grade level. In math, there are leveled groups, but they aren't very leveled; for example, in my high performer's class, there are only two math groups, which isn't much. On the schedule, there is 30 minutes of WIN ("what I need") time each day in math and another 30 minutes in ELA. This is supposed to be time when the reading and math specialists pull out kids for either enrichment or remediation. In reality, because there is only one reading specialist and two math specialists and 7 grades (and almost 800 kids), each grade is only served (at least for enrichment) once a week. They do computer-based instruction (ST Math) during WIN time the other days. My other child is below grade level in writing, yet she was never pulled for remediation during WIN time. |
Anonymous
Most of those people aren't related to special ed. Instruction coaches never work with the kids -- they are there to observe and mentor the teachers, although since they have less experience than many of the teachers, they are resented by the more experienced teachers. At any rate, no involvement with special ed. The psychologist only does testing, no service provision. One of the counselors does special ed part time and does the peace program the other part of the time. There is an part time OT and part time SLP. I don't think that's particularly unusual. |
Anonymous
According to the DCPS Website: % of special ed-- Janney-- 6% Eaton - 7% Key - 7% Murch - 6% Stoddert - 4% Oyster - 10% Hearst -13% Mann - 5% Lafayette 5% They are all pretty low but Oyster and Hearst. Nothing special about Lafayette here. |
Anonymous
More up to date numbers in the OSSE equity reports. http://learndc.org/schoolprofiles/view?s=0287#equityreport |
Anonymous
Ok, but even there all the schools are around the same point. Janney - 8% Eaton- 8% Key - 8% Murch- 7% Stoddert- 4% Oyster - 11% Mann- 5% Lafayette - 6% |