Discovery elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Yes bullying happens every where. But I can tell you from painful personal experience, in Discovery the school ignores the parents and tried to blame it on the kids whom were bullied, specially if they were colored. So this is the big difference between Discovey and other schools bullying cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Do you know the kids who left to private and what their needs were??? Public education should work for everyone, and no excuses in our area with the amount of taxes we pay. Its a failiar for Discovery that some parent felt they needed to move their kids to private, specially the ones with SN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Discovery does not have a good reputation for supporting special needs kids. My kids don't go there - we were specifically advised by other special needs parents not to move to the Discovery zone when we decided to move to APS.

[Anonymous]

North Arlington seems to have lots and lots of special needs kids, with some schools pleasing the high maintenance parents and others like Discovery not. In the real world, outside the 2%, observations such as "going to private" are not a real metric because North Arlington/McLean/Falls Church affluence both attracts idiot savant families and fails to meet all of their unrealistic expectations. SN families in South Arlington or Alexandria would be delighted with the level provided even in a school like Discovery. Yes, I know as I've been involved in APS since 2006, lived in both North and South and have many outside contacts such as coaching where I've seen kids from all over the county. Let's keep some perspective here folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Yes bullying happens every where. But I can tell you from painful personal experience, in Discovery the school ignores the parents and tried to blame it on the kids whom were bullied, specially if they were colored. So this is the big difference between Discovey and other schools bullying cases.

Yeah, no. Nice try, troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:North Arlington seems to have lots and lots of special needs kids, with some schools pleasing the high maintenance parents and others like Discovery not. In the real world, outside the 2%, observations such as "going to private" are not a real metric because North Arlington/McLean/Falls Church affluence both attracts idiot savant families and fails to meet all of their unrealistic expectations. SN families in South Arlington or Alexandria would be delighted with the level provided even in a school like Discovery. Yes, I know as I've been involved in APS since 2006, lived in both North and South and have many outside contacts such as coaching where I've seen kids from all over the county. Let's keep some perspective here folks.

Some people will glom onto any “bad” rumors about schools in north Arlington. The farther north, the more they want to believe it.

None of the claims of pervasive bullying or racist administration in this thread are true. A person with a bone to pick and an anonymous forum in which to do it can ignite all sorts of baseless rumors.

[Anonymous]

Those bad mouthing Discovery are plain jealous. Plain and simple. My kids have loved it so much! Its an incredibly supportive community. The people focused on bullying issues are just exaggerating and are trying to blame their kids problems on the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:North Arlington seems to have lots and lots of special needs kids, with some schools pleasing the high maintenance parents and others like Discovery not. In the real world, outside the 2%, observations such as "going to private" are not a real metric because North Arlington/McLean/Falls Church affluence both attracts idiot savant families and fails to meet all of their unrealistic expectations. SN families in South Arlington or Alexandria would be delighted with the level provided even in a school like Discovery. Yes, I know as I've been involved in APS since 2006, lived in both North and South and have many outside contacts such as coaching where I've seen kids from all over the county. Let's keep some perspective here folks.

Oh, geez. What an entitled a-hole you are. Let’s keep some perspective folks! You could be in a school in South Arlington or Alexandria!

BYW, this SA parent has been extremely happy with my kid’s special ed teachers, counselors, and case carriers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:North Arlington seems to have lots and lots of special needs kids, with some schools pleasing the high maintenance parents and others like Discovery not. In the real world, outside the 2%, observations such as "going to private" are not a real metric because North Arlington/McLean/Falls Church affluence both attracts idiot savant families and fails to meet all of their unrealistic expectations. SN families in South Arlington or Alexandria would be delighted with the level provided even in a school like Discovery. Yes, I know as I've been involved in APS since 2006, lived in both North and South and have many outside contacts such as coaching where I've seen kids from all over the county. Let's keep some perspective here folks.

Oh, geez. What an entitled a-hole you are. Let’s keep some perspective folks! You could be in a school in South Arlington or Alexandria!

BYW, this SA parent has been extremely happy with my kid’s special ed teachers, counselors, and case carriers.

It's no secret that North Arlington schools are FAR WORSE for special education than S. Arlington. Quite sure SA families would be far from delighted with SPED in NA schools. Sounds like you don't have as much information as you think you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Yes bullying happens every where. But I can tell you from painful personal experience, in Discovery the school ignores the parents and tried to blame it on the kids whom were bullied, specially if they were colored. So this is the big difference between Discovey and other schools bullying cases.

Yeah, no. Nice try, troll.

Did you hear of something called unconscious bias?? It happens in Discovery like many other places and this is exactly what you are doing now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those bad mouthing Discovery are plain jealous. Plain and simple. My kids have loved it so much! Its an incredibly supportive community. The people focused on bullying issues are just exaggerating and are trying to blame their kids problems on the school.

I'm one of the pp that complained about bullying..not jealous. We own a house zoned for Discovery...we moved for this school and I still like our school, despite the bullying, I stepped in and helped my kid, school could have been more cooperative. Being in denial about the bullying at Discovery is not helpful, Discovery is like any other school in our country and its not immune from it. The problem is that the school leadership ignored it for a long time. Just put a damn system in place and address it when it happens, end of the story!

[Anonymous]

All you'd miss would be the slide

Actually the slide at the newer Fleet ES is better. However Discovery is designed better over all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Yes bullying happens every where. But I can tell you from painful personal experience, in Discovery the school ignores the parents and tried to blame it on the kids whom were bullied, specially if they were colored. So this is the big difference between Discovey and other schools bullying cases.

McK blames it on the kid who was bullied but we didn't have an issue b/c of color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think bullying happens in any school. This is not unique to Discovery. The standards based grading is the worst. But overall, great teachers, great community, good overall elementary experience. Those whose kids left for privates were already not doing well. It had nothing to do with the school.

Discovery does not have a good reputation for supporting special needs kids. My kids don't go there - we were specifically advised by other special needs parents not to move to the Discovery zone when we decided to move to APS.

Avoid McK too. And Nottingham.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:North Arlington seems to have lots and lots of special needs kids, with some schools pleasing the high maintenance parents and others like Discovery not. In the real world, outside the 2%, observations such as "going to private" are not a real metric because North Arlington/McLean/Falls Church affluence both attracts idiot savant families and fails to meet all of their unrealistic expectations. SN families in South Arlington or Alexandria would be delighted with the level provided even in a school like Discovery. Yes, I know as I've been involved in APS since 2006, lived in both North and South and have many outside contacts such as coaching where I've seen kids from all over the county. Let's keep some perspective here folks.

What do you think is a good school for kids with special needs in Arlington?