Switching schools in 3rd grade

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Anonymous wrote:How do you feel about Latin and BASIS? In your position it isn't crazy to endure 4th grade and see how the 5th grade lottery works out. Your chances are Latin are hard to estimate but I think the majority of people get an offer at BASIS or Latin.

OP here. We have sibling preference at one of those middle schools.

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Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:does your child have any neighborhood acquaintance friends from sports/activities/summer camp etc. at other schools? that can really help w the initial adjustment to a new school at a non-entry year. i think lottery for ludlow or another capitol hill area dcps makes sense. ppl also seem to really like ITS in edgewood.

What is ITS?

Inspired Teaching School.

[Anonymous]

inspired teaching goes to 8th and ludlow feeds to stuart hobson so those might be workable middle school options too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:inspired teaching goes to 8th and ludlow feeds to stuart hobson so those might be workable middle school options too

Can you get into the middle school even if you are not in bounds?

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Anonymous wrote:inspired teaching goes to 8th and ludlow feeds to stuart hobson so those might be workable middle school options too

Can you get into the middle school even if you are not in bounds?

to Stuart-Hobson? In past years yes, that has been possible as far as I can tell.

[Anonymous]

if you go to an elementary school feeder oob you get rights to the middle school

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Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

If you have sibling pref at a middle, switch to your IB DCPS. We left TR after 2nd. So glad we did. 3rd was pretty rigorous so we were glad to be at a school with a solid curriculum. My child made friends quickly at the new school and barely remembered TR by 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

Which campus? Wondering if the situation is the same at both?

[Anonymous]

We switched to ITDS mid-elementary. Best decision ever. If you can get a spot take it. Plenty of kids leave at 5th for Latin etc so your child will likely move on with new friends as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

If you have sibling pref at a middle, switch to your IB DCPS. We left TR after 2nd. So glad we did. 3rd was pretty rigorous so we were glad to be at a school with a solid curriculum. My child made friends quickly at the new school and barely remembered TR by 4th grade.

NP here--we left TRY after 3rd for our IB (L-T) and wished we had left sooner. One of the issues that became clear to me after we left TR is how little independence they instill in students as they get older and mature.

Also, just imagine...no more community meeting. It's a wonderful thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

If you have sibling pref at a middle, switch to your IB DCPS. We left TR after 2nd. So glad we did. 3rd was pretty rigorous so we were glad to be at a school with a solid curriculum. My child made friends quickly at the new school and barely remembered TR by 4th grade.

NP here--we left TRY after 3rd for our IB (L-T) and wished we had left sooner. One of the issues that became clear to me after we left TR is how little independence they instill in students as they get older and mature.

Also, just imagine...no more community meeting. It's a wonderful thing.

What is community meeting?

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Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

Just do it. Two years is a long time to suffer and your kid will be fine (and better prepared for middle school).

THIS. NP here. Both 3rd and 4rth grades were complete chaos in terms of behavior issues for my DD at TR. save your own sanity.

If you have sibling pref at a middle, switch to your IB DCPS. We left TR after 2nd. So glad we did. 3rd was pretty rigorous so we were glad to be at a school with a solid curriculum. My child made friends quickly at the new school and barely remembered TR by 4th grade.

NP here--we left TRY after 3rd for our IB (L-T) and wished we had left sooner. One of the issues that became clear to me after we left TR is how little independence they instill in students as they get older and mature.

Also, just imagine...no more community meeting. It's a wonderful thing.

What is community meeting?

It’s a weekly assembly with singing and different classes facilitate. It gives every student one time during the year where they read a line into a microphone. But downsides are that it is really hard to hear, it is an hour every week, the older kids don’t seem to get much out of it and look bored. More than anything happy and cheerful rituals are nice when people in the building have good morale. When teacher morale is low, and test scores are dropping the happy cheerful performance feels untruthful. Also the public speaking skills feel less substantive because it is kids reading lines written for them usually. They are not speaking from the heart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At wits end with the HRCS my kid goes to. Where to switch? We are in the NOMA area.

If you are at TR or TRY, get out if you can. We suffered through 4th grade and it was awful.

BINGO. OP here. Don't think we can wait 2 years to get out. But hate to switch just for a few years.

NP. +1 for getting the heck out ASAP. The school is rudderless. The Board has their heads stuck in the sand; they have no clue what has been happening on their watch. The classroom management is terrible. The academics are sub-par - way worse than you realize until you get out.

Get out now!