do you know a lot of people who are leaving DCPS next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Can’t unsee what I’ve seen this year. We are removing our daughter from this worthless scam designed for teachers, not kids.

Excellent! We might solve the crowding at Deal after all.

Nope. We "East of the Park" people will lottery in to all the open Deal spots.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:wait, you're asking if we'd be better off without you? The guy who says the rest of us are "liberals spouting holier-than-thou screeds?" I mean, do you want an unfriendly answer?

I'm a political centrist who thinks the DCPS ES humanities curriculum, at least as our school implements it, is ridiculously weak, particularly for writing.

I've volunteered a great deal at my kids' school for 7 years now. This week, I'm weighing financial aid offers from privates currently offering 5-day/week school, with more to come in the fall.

If my situation merits unfriendly responses, so be it. Good luck to those of you sticking with DCPS.

Unfriendly? Nobody cares. Enjoy your new school.

Stfu.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

I just don't think it's going to be that many. There aren't so many additional private school slots and selling your house is a big deal. If dcps announced school would be hybrid in the fall, people might figure alternative plans, but right now it looks plausible enough that there will be full time school and if there isn't going to be, they won't say so until the last minute. I do think we'll see a lot more political support for school vouchers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

I just don't think it's going to be that many. There aren't so many additional private school slots and selling your house is a big deal. If dcps announced school would be hybrid in the fall, people might figure alternative plans, but right now it looks plausible enough that there will be full time school and if there isn't going to be, they won't say so until the last minute. I do think we'll see a lot more political support for school vouchers.

Last year, more people left DC than any other city except for NYC and San Francisco and a few others. I'm sure the number of people leaving is accelerating and we just don't see it yet because there is such a lag in the data. But if you can't count on your kid be able to go to school like a normal kid -- and you can't -- then people are going to bolt. I think the city's school budget is going to be in for a world of hurt for years to come. Teachers who forced schools to remain so closed will come to regret their obstinance when they're in the unemployment line.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

OMG, an UC white person who thinks they are god's gift to he world and DC is going to leave. However will we survive? There's a technical term for what I'm feeling. It is pretty in the original Greek but it roughly translates to "Bye Feiicia!".

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

I just don't think it's going to be that many. There aren't so many additional private school slots and selling your house is a big deal. If dcps announced school would be hybrid in the fall, people might figure alternative plans, but right now it looks plausible enough that there will be full time school and if there isn't going to be, they won't say so until the last minute. I do think we'll see a lot more political support for school vouchers.

Last year, more people left DC than any other city except for NYC and San Francisco and a few others. I'm sure the number of people leaving is accelerating and we just don't see it yet because there is such a lag in the data. But if you can't count on your kid be able to go to school like a normal kid -- and you can't -- then people are going to bolt. I think the city's school budget is going to be in for a world of hurt for years to come. Teachers who forced schools to remain so closed will come to regret their obstinance when they're in the unemployment line.

Do you promise to stop posting on DCUM once you are gone? Just getting rid of the small group of entitled white folks who like their echo chamber would be worth it. And good on you for making long term education decisions based a once in a generation externality. Totally makes sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

I just don't think it's going to be that many. There aren't so many additional private school slots and selling your house is a big deal. If dcps announced school would be hybrid in the fall, people might figure alternative plans, but right now it looks plausible enough that there will be full time school and if there isn't going to be, they won't say so until the last minute. I do think we'll see a lot more political support for school vouchers.

Last year, more people left DC than any other city except for NYC and San Francisco and a few others. I'm sure the number of people leaving is accelerating and we just don't see it yet because there is such a lag in the data. But if you can't count on your kid be able to go to school like a normal kid -- and you can't -- then people are going to bolt. I think the city's school budget is going to be in for a world of hurt for years to come. Teachers who forced schools to remain so closed will come to regret their obstinance when they're in the unemployment line.

Do you promise to stop posting on DCUM once you are gone? Just getting rid of the small group of entitled white folks who like their echo chamber would be worth it. And good on you for making long term education decisions based a once in a generation externality. Totally makes sense.

If we've learned anything during this pandemic, it's that the most entitled people in Washington DC are public school teachers.

They seem to think they have the right to work as little as they like, for as long as they like -- while, of course, collecting their full salaries.

And about those salaries: DC has the highest paid teachers in the country -- and yet we are far, far behind the rest of the country in reopening our schools. At this point, most schools in the US are open five days a week. When are DC schools going to completely reopen? It's long past time. No more excuses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

Yes, exactly, but it's an EotP phenomenon.

Upper NW parents don't have a measure of the potential for the snowball effect to mess up DCPS programs after a year of BS DL. They don't send their children to schools that were Title 1 just a few years years ago, or perhaps a decade back. They have no direct experience with the hard work parents have done to create real neighborhood schools. They don't experience the sense of dread that high SES participation in the upper elementary grades could collapse like a house of cards if hybrid learning continues in the fall.

With a good cohort of UMC at our DCPS, we will no longer have a viable school. No estimation of their value could be too high for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

Yes, exactly, but it's an EotP phenomenon.

Upper NW parents don't have a measure of the potential for the snowball effect to mess up DCPS programs after a year of BS DL. They don't send their children to schools that were Title 1 just a few years years ago, or perhaps a decade back. They have no direct experience with the hard work parents have done to create real neighborhood schools. They don't experience the sense of dread that high SES participation in the upper elementary grades could collapse like a house of cards if hybrid learning continues in the fall.

With a good cohort of UMC at our DCPS, we will no longer have a viable school. No estimation of their value could be too high for us.

This

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

Yes, exactly, but it's an EotP phenomenon.

Upper NW parents don't have a measure of the potential for the snowball effect to mess up DCPS programs after a year of BS DL. They don't send their children to schools that were Title 1 just a few years years ago, or perhaps a decade back. They have no direct experience with the hard work parents have done to create real neighborhood schools. They don't experience the sense of dread that high SES participation in the upper elementary grades could collapse like a house of cards if hybrid learning continues in the fall.

With a good cohort of UMC at our DCPS, we will no longer have a viable school. No estimation of their value could be too high for us.

This

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

Yes, exactly, but it's an EotP phenomenon.

Upper NW parents don't have a measure of the potential for the snowball effect to mess up DCPS programs after a year of BS DL. They don't send their children to schools that were Title 1 just a few years years ago, or perhaps a decade back. They have no direct experience with the hard work parents have done to create real neighborhood schools. They don't experience the sense of dread that high SES participation in the upper elementary grades could collapse like a house of cards if hybrid learning continues in the fall.

With a good cohort of UMC at our DCPS, we will no longer have a viable school. No estimation of their value could be too high for us.

This

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Hill DCPS parent here and exactly this. Every time I hear that another long time/super involved family is leaving, I just want to cry.