Switching schools in 3rd grade

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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.

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

They appear to be worse at TRY (as they always have been). The problem is that those schools merge in MS and by all accounts the MS is an utter sh*t show. It was reported (I have not personally confirmed) that things were so bad that they staggered reentry after Christmas break to try and get control of the situation. One of the things that attracts many ECE families to TR is the MS path. If the MS is a cluster then why bother with the ES?

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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.

Now that you mention it, yes! The irony is that the ECE approach that so badly fails assumes they can treat, incentivize and control them with the same approach that worked in ECE. It fails miserably and makes classroom management impossible while simultaneously infantilizing them.

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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.

Now that you mention it, yes! The irony is that the ECE approach that so badly fails assumes they can treat, incentivize and control them with the same approach that worked in ECE. It fails miserably and makes classroom management impossible while simultaneously infantilizing them.

Infantilizing is exactly what they do: from community meeting to the showcases to their approach to classroom management. My DS had significant gaps in being independent once we left TR, but made great strides in just a few months once he was in environment where he had to meet certain expectations. He needed to step up his organization and I'm relieved he's finally in an environment where he's not only expected to be independent and meet certain standards (grades! quizzes! gasp!), but is enjoying being independent. His maturity and confidence has grown exponentially.
I thought his needs were not being met at TRY...but it wasn't until we left that I truly realized how far behind he was...Granted, TRY was likely just a bad fit for DS and our family overall, but I do think something is just "off" about the leadership.

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Be careful you don't go from the frying pan into the fire. Carefully investigate potential choices.

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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.

Now that you mention it, yes! The irony is that the ECE approach that so badly fails assumes they can treat, incentivize and control them with the same approach that worked in ECE. It fails miserably and makes classroom management impossible while simultaneously infantilizing them.

Infantilizing is exactly what they do: from community meeting to the showcases to their approach to classroom management. My DS had significant gaps in being independent once we left TR, but made great strides in just a few months once he was in environment where he had to meet certain expectations. He needed to step up his organization and I'm relieved he's finally in an environment where he's not only expected to be independent and meet certain standards (grades! quizzes! gasp!), but is enjoying being independent. His maturity and confidence has grown exponentially.
I thought his needs were not being met at TRY...but it wasn't until we left that I truly realized how far behind he was...Granted, TRY was likely just a bad fit for DS and our family overall, but I do think something is just "off" about the leadership.

the “offness” is that they view education as an afterthought.

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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.

Now that you mention it, yes! The irony is that the ECE approach that so badly fails assumes they can treat, incentivize and control them with the same approach that worked in ECE. It fails miserably and makes classroom management impossible while simultaneously infantilizing them.

Infantilizing is exactly what they do: from community meeting to the showcases to their approach to classroom management. My DS had significant gaps in being independent once we left TR, but made great strides in just a few months once he was in environment where he had to meet certain expectations. He needed to step up his organization and I'm relieved he's finally in an environment where he's not only expected to be independent and meet certain standards (grades! quizzes! gasp!), but is enjoying being independent. His maturity and confidence has grown exponentially.
I thought his needs were not being met at TRY...but it wasn't until we left that I truly realized how far behind he was...Granted, TRY was likely just a bad fit for DS and our family overall, but I do think something is just "off" about the leadership.

the “offness” is that they view education as an afterthought.

They do indeed. But, on the positive side of things, you'll know lots of buzzwords about "equity" and EL!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So true! Who needs to learn how to do long division or understand fractions when we can devote classroom time to equity!

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.

Now that you mention it, yes! The irony is that the ECE approach that so badly fails assumes they can treat, incentivize and control them with the same approach that worked in ECE. It fails miserably and makes classroom management impossible while simultaneously infantilizing them.

Infantilizing is exactly what they do: from community meeting to the showcases to their approach to classroom management. My DS had significant gaps in being independent once we left TR, but made great strides in just a few months once he was in environment where he had to meet certain expectations. He needed to step up his organization and I'm relieved he's finally in an environment where he's not only expected to be independent and meet certain standards (grades! quizzes! gasp!), but is enjoying being independent. His maturity and confidence has grown exponentially.
I thought his needs were not being met at TRY...but it wasn't until we left that I truly realized how far behind he was...Granted, TRY was likely just a bad fit for DS and our family overall, but I do think something is just "off" about the leadership.

the “offness” is that they view education as an afterthought.

They do indeed. But, on the positive side of things, you'll know lots of buzzwords about "equity" and EL!

[Anonymous]

Apply to privates next year if you can afford it.

[Anonymous]

At the moment, OOB admission is virtually guaranteed at L-T by 3rd grade. It really is the little known safety net on the Hill for 2Rs, CHML and other Hill DCPS refugees. (Obviously Maury, Brent and SWS have programs that folks are very happy with, but most of them remain hard to lottery into until 5th… though that was less true at Brent this year, which took loads of K and 2nd and 4th graders… Maybe because the upcoming renovation has made it temporarily less attractive.)

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Anonymous wrote:At the moment, OOB admission is virtually guaranteed at L-T by 3rd grade. It really is the little known safety net on the Hill for 2Rs, CHML and other Hill DCPS refugees. (Obviously Maury, Brent and SWS have programs that folks are very happy with, but most of them remain hard to lottery into until 5th… though that was less true at Brent this year, which took loads of K and 2nd and 4th graders… Maybe because the upcoming renovation has made it temporarily less attractive.)

We were a TR family. Had we realized LT was an option in 3rd grade we would have entered the lottery.