DCPS Elementary School Resources

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What field trip could possibly cost $125? What assemblies cost a lot of money and why do assemblies matter?

I think the list-maker compiled all the things she has heard of any one school posdibly having, but no school has nearly all of that.

My school did. Charter buses are expensive. I think it was $1200 for one bus for a day trip. Not including any other costs for the trip--admissions, lunch, museum, guide.

Assemblies don't matter, but one school had them and the other didn't. I wasn't asked what mattered, I was asked have vs have not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school has 1:1 ipads and laptops? That is pure fantasy.

My old school. Just because you don't want to believe it doesn't make it true. Ask what schools test all kids for PARCC at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school has 1:1 ipads and laptops? That is pure fantasy.

It is not fantasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school has 1:1 ipads and laptops? That is pure fantasy.

It is not fantasy.

Then name the school! Why not? You aren’t outing a person, you’re making a claim of fact.

[Anonymous]

What’s a paid assembly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school has 1:1 ipads and laptops? That is pure fantasy.

It is not fantasy.

Then name the school! Why not? You aren’t outing a person, you’re making a claim of fact.

There are plenty of parents on here that could identify their school by name as having or not having any of the things listed. The fact that they aren't means they know it's true and won't admit to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s a paid assembly?

Paid for science demonstrations, musicians, speakers, artists to come in and present to kids. It's fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s a paid assembly?

Paid for science demonstrations, musicians, speakers, artists to come in and present to kids. It's fun.

Oh, thanks. I guess we don’t have those either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old 6-figure PTA:
-aide for every class/grade
-1:1 iPads
-1:1 laptops
-$1,000 teacher supply card
-heavily subsidized field trips (cost: $125 per kid, charged $20)
-multiple assemblies
-teachers paid to run after school enrichments
-teachers paid to attend any PD they want (flight, hotel, conference fee, per diem)
-teacher MacBooks

New EOTP Title 1:
-old laptops missing half their keys, one cart for two classes to share
-no tablets. Did Donors Choose for $50 kindle Fires
-no supply money at start of year besides WTU $200. Later $150 from budget. Restrictions on where we can buy.
-needed staff laptop, was given an old student laptop
-one paid bus trip per year (doesn't include any other costs)
-no aides above K
-no paid assemblies
-few enrichments, all teacher volunteer
-no PD budget, must pay my own way

The “old PTA” sounds like CMI.
-Former CMI Parent

[Anonymous]

The OP specified DCPS EOTP and WOTP.

[Anonymous]

OP, school gardens are everywhere. Good luck finding a school without one. Here's the map:

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/Map_SY2017-18_Active_SchoolGardens.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school has 1:1 ipads and laptops? That is pure fantasy.

It is not fantasy.

Then name the school! Why not? You aren’t outing a person, you’re making a claim of fact.

There are plenty of parents on here that could identify their school by name as having or not having any of the things listed. The fact that they aren't means they know it's true and won't admit to it.

OK: Not Murch or Deal.

So which school is it, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP specified DCPS EOTP and WOTP.

Yes, but that’s specific comment didn’t specify whether DCPS or charter. It just said, “old PTA”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, school gardens are everywhere. Good luck finding a school without one. Here's the map:

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/Map_SY2017-18_Active_SchoolGardens.pdf

Probably a whole new thread, but I wonder how many schools actually maintain these gardens once they start them. Current school has a garden club neighborhood school's gardens out front always look abandoned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s a paid assembly?

Paid for science demonstrations, musicians, speakers, artists to come in and present to kids. It's fun.

Oh, thanks. I guess we don’t have those either.

Our EOTP has a lot of these, I think as a less expensive (and tbh less hassle) alternative to field trips. For $500-$1000, you can have performers come to the school and do workshops with the kids, for example we had Taiko drumming, another one was a Step dance team, another was a petting zoo on wheels. That way several hundred kids can have the experience over the course of the day, and it cuts out the expense of a bus, and minimizes loss of instructional time. I still think field trips are of value, but I definitely see the appeal of visitors as well. Especially if the school has a real auditorium so things can happen without displacing PE classes.