Redshirting consequences at Lafayette

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.

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Stop comparing DCPS to a private school. It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc. For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school. And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home. If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.

What does this have to do with expecting a school principal to break the rules for you. Move to a small wealthy town in New York or Massachusetts if you want accountability and excellent schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.

+1

Stop comparing DCPS to a private school. It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc. For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school. And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home. If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.

What does this have to do with expecting a school principal to break the rules for you. Move to a small wealthy town in New York or Massachusetts if you want accountability and excellent schools.

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And if you think DC has high taxes go check out those small wealthy suburbs in those areas. It’s not even a comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.

+1

Stop comparing DCPS to a private school. It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc. For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school. And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home. If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.

What does this have to do with expecting a school principal to break the rules for you. Move to a small wealthy town in New York or Massachusetts if you want accountability and excellent schools.

+1

And if you think DC has high taxes go check out those small wealthy suburbs in those areas. It’s not even a comparison.

This! You would only complain about DC school taxes if you've never lived in a very high quality suburban district. DC has high housing costs but taxes are not high by national standards at all.

So much of this situation is caused by these Lafayette families living in an unusual enclave of DC (an area with mostly wealthy and UMC families where there is very high IB buy in at their neighborhood school, and the school itself is majority high income, highly educated parents). They don't know what they don't know.

Of course, people keep trying to educate them and they are stubborn and refuse to listen, and that's on them. Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.

+1

Stop comparing DCPS to a private school. It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc. For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school. And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home. If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.

What does this have to do with expecting a school principal to break the rules for you. Move to a small wealthy town in New York or Massachusetts if you want accountability and excellent schools.

+1

And if you think DC has high taxes go check out those small wealthy suburbs in those areas. It’s not even a comparison.

This! You would only complain about DC school taxes if you've never lived in a very high quality suburban district. DC has high housing costs but taxes are not high by national standards at all.

So much of this situation is caused by these Lafayette families living in an unusual enclave of DC (an area with mostly wealthy and UMC families where there is very high IB buy in at their neighborhood school, and the school itself is majority high income, highly educated parents). They don't know what they don't know.

Of course, people keep trying to educate them and they are stubborn and refuse to listen, and that's on them. Good luck with that.

DC actually has the lowest combination of income, R/E and sales tax in the DMV except for Arlington, VA. Lower then all local MD counties and most local NoVA counties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.

+1

Stop comparing DCPS to a private school. It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc. For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school. And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home. If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.

What does this have to do with expecting a school principal to break the rules for you. Move to a small wealthy town in New York or Massachusetts if you want accountability and excellent schools.

+1

And if you think DC has high taxes go check out those small wealthy suburbs in those areas. It’s not even a comparison.

This! You would only complain about DC school taxes if you've never lived in a very high quality suburban district. DC has high housing costs but taxes are not high by national standards at all.

So much of this situation is caused by these Lafayette families living in an unusual enclave of DC (an area with mostly wealthy and UMC families where there is very high IB buy in at their neighborhood school, and the school itself is majority high income, highly educated parents). They don't know what they don't know.

Of course, people keep trying to educate them and they are stubborn and refuse to listen, and that's on them. Good luck with that.

DC actually has the lowest combination of income, R/E and sales tax in the DMV except for Arlington, VA. Lower than all local MD counties and most local NoVA counties.

Exactly. So many of these parents want a suburban school experience while living in the city but don't seem to understand that's what they are asking for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt this will matter to the already derailed thread, but there have been boys redshirted all over the city.

It's not a strictly Lafeyette, or strictly NW, or strictly Ward 3 thing.

I live in NE. I asked to redshirt my August birthday kid (in part due to Covid -- she missed PK3 due to Covid and seemed immature for K to me) and was told no and that it was not permitted under DCPS rules. We know lots of summer and September birthdays at our school (the young kids from the grade seem to gravitate towards each other) and none are redshirted.

I was very surprised when this story surfaced to learn that redshirting was fairly common at Lafayette or any school. It is unheard of at our DCPS and I can't imagine them allowing it absent SNs.

So you let a faceless bureaucrat who doesn't know jack squat about your kid overrule you? Even though you were confident that you did not think your child was mature enough for kindergarten?

People on this thread are quick to trash "rich NW parents" for standing up for their kids but at least they're standing up and not getting railroaded by some DCPS numskull.

DP. the “faceless bureaucrats” actually understand education and know that most parents who fear their child is “immature” for K are just anxious and their kid will be fine. If you want to decide everything about your child’s education then you need to homeschool.

You think DCPS officials understand education!?!? We spent more money per student in the US for education and have some of the worst performance - notably not in the NW schools…must be all that red shirting 🤣🙄