DCPS "Whole Child" marketing campaign: A waste of money

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everything in education, and particularly urban education, is cyclical. A heavy focus on attending to the needs of the whole child and social-emotional learning is not new. However, after 20+ years of high-stakes accountability and testing ad nauseam, the system is churning out grads who get to college or the workplace and are maladjusted/ therefore not performing optimally and/or quickly dropping out. Whole-child/SEL work is an evolution of government and philanthropic efforts centered on persistence-- not just getting kids to college but through. Those who complain about infusing this into a child's educational program likely have the resources and awareness to socialize this at home and/or within other engagements (sports, faith-based activities, etc.)

So the schools are supposed to raise these kids because their parents can't be bothered to? This is why people leave public schools. It's not fair to kids who are there to learn and whose instructional time is eaten away by whatever trendy useless nonsense ed schools and social justice activists want taught these days. I mean, math and reading scores in the city are abysmal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/02/dc-schools-parcc-test/

There is only so much time in a school day.

THIS x 1 million. And you wonder why DCPS is bleeding all the middle class higher performing kids.

Because you don't want your kids in classes where the average kid is years behind. My kids go to a charter that is very instruction focused. But most of the kids are still not at grade level, and that limits how much useful instruction advanced or even grade level kids get. By contrast, the school with the craziest race stuff was an upper NW school with high test scores and I'd send my kids there in a second, and so would many of the middle class families who leave if they could afford to live in that neighborhood.

Our experience is different at our charter. They do a good job of grouping kids in general and provide good content homework in upper grades to help keep kids on track.

Then you're not part of why DC is bleeding high performing kids. Also please name it!

[Anonymous]

My conservetive friends who don’t live in the DC sent me this tweet multiple times about how my PK3 son is being indoctrinated by CRT or being taught anti-white racism.

I guess the rightwing Twitter is going nuts about this right now, Ferebee’s tweet was picked up by a bunch of rightwing accounts (like Matt Walsh).

So yeah, get ready to be questioned about what your kid is learning. My kid is doing great in his PK3 and his diverse teaching staff (black, Hispanic, white) are wonderful people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My conservetive friends who don’t live in the DC sent me this tweet multiple times about how my PK3 son is being indoctrinated by CRT or being taught anti-white racism.

I guess the rightwing Twitter is going nuts about this right now, Ferebee’s tweet was picked up by a bunch of rightwing accounts (like Matt Walsh).

So yeah, get ready to be questioned about what your kid is learning. My kid is doing great in his PK3 and his diverse teaching staff (black, Hispanic, white) are wonderful people.

In 10 years my DCPS child has been assigned books about many amazing people MLK, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, Malala, RBG, etc. but they’ve never once been assigned a book about a white man. Not an inventor, astronaut, politician, military leader, etc. And the summer reading lists are completely devoid of books about white men. It’s just really….odd.