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How long are you planning on staying in DCPS or charter?
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Anonymous
Hey troll, what's for dinner? |
Anonymous
This sums it up. There is an underlying nastiness to this school (not all parents by any means)that is a huge turnoff. |
Anonymous
I don't even understand what that means. How would anyone know if it's from a Yu Ying parent anyway? I don't have a student there yet but all the Yu Ying parents I've met-- most from Brookland-- are laid back and easy going. We're excited about the Chinese aspects of the school and I'm hoping that the school and community is an overall good fit for our family. |
Anonymous
Why do you call the poster a troll because she/he has a different experience or opinion than you. I am also a YY parent and am not positive if my DC will be there for the long haul. I personally don't care for the last minute planning for the upper grades. Fortunately my child is in a younger grade and will benefit from the trailblazers in 3rd and 4th. But, the way administration has handled the upper grades is not promising. Also, I am not convinced by the new tracking system. I think it is wrong, wrong, wrong. And if in the future YY attempted to track my child, we are out of there. And the departure date will be before YY receives the beginning year funding not afterwards. |
Anonymous
Just stop. We are not all like that. I would go so far as to say the majority are not like that. And if you are so turned off by people like the person you quoted, you will be truly disappointed wherever your DC attend school. People like the first poster are in every school. So just stop with the negative grouping of all because of the ills of a few. |
Anonymous
| How does my comment make me a troll? That is how I feel. You can just look at the clas pages on the school website and see that what I say is true. I never said the school was a bad school, but they need to take more time to work with the leading class. Personally, I believe they need to let parents know by the end of 4th grade the plans for middle school. |
Anonymous
| What does a class page prove? I don't follow you, PP. |
Anonymous
| We are in a jklm school and plan to stay in DCPS though Deal and Wilson. |
Anonymous
If YY decides to track your child, leaving makes perfect sense since immersion is clearly not working. I am sure that the school would wish you the best regardless of when you made your decision. |
Anonymous
I don't think that is a true statement. The school needs the funding for every child. The school has a very large note right now and I understand Mary's BIL was contracted to do the construction. The school needs to pay for all that and school funding is important. So I think you owe that poster an apology. |
Anonymous
Not sure how any of that follows. Apology? My point is that if a child is not doing well at the school--to the point that they're moved on to the alternative track--then leaving the school is an option that I would assume parents would consider. And if the parents chose to leave, I believe that the school would be totally sympathetic and respectful of the decision. They may wish the family would stay but they know the model isn't for everyone. The fact that they have a big note doesn't change any of this. |
Anonymous
Like an older sibling, the upper grades 'bearing the brunt' of the new school's learning curve is a common experience to all charter schools I think. It is very positive for incoming classes to recognize this (as you have) and support the school as a whole and especially the upper grades, in addition to ones child's own grade. You are only as strong as the tip of the spear. this includes taking an interest in the upper grade, concrete support and helpful critique to the admin based on the roadbumps the upper grades have encountered. I am not a YY parent and not an upper grade charter school parent, but as a charter school parent I think those that are probably need more than a commiserating pat on the back. They need real action and support from the grades below so they don't regret their trailblazing.... |
Anonymous
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I am a parent of a YY child in one of the upper grades (above rising 2nd). I have chaperoned multiple field trips, attended birthday parties, know most of parents fairly well in my grade level, and know the kids. I'm not really clear what the "perception" of the upper grades is (from the Prek-K, 1, 2 parents). For me, it is like much of the rest of the school--a good mix of families and kids with the normal range of behavior issues and academic achievement as any other type of school setting. Many nice kids and nice families. I'd guess the only surface issue one could point out is that the two upper grades are less diverse, and more heavily AA than the lower grades.
Obviously much more is known by the whole school about the two upper grades because their was such concern about 15-20% of the kids not achieving academically. Could anyone elaborate what these other fears people have for the top two grades? The biggest downside BY FAR is that your kid has to start learning new content with teachers who haven't taught it before so their is always a sense of experimentation. |
Anonymous
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I could be wrong because I am relatively new to the DC Public/Charter system however, there seems to be a recurring theme for the “less than positive” posts regarding upper elementary/middle schools here on DCUM. And it doesn't have to be a lead charter class like the one that is being discussed here. So I appreciate the PP noting that the only surface issue you can easily point to in these grades, whether it's a public or a charter school, is that--in general--they are less diverse (which almost always translates to majority AA/in some cases Latino).
Imagine how diverse some of these schools might be if there were more parents who weren't locked on yanking their kids out of these schools post “x” grade. I understand the need to do what is in the best interest of your child. But the schools that I’ve noticed that have been able to turn a corner for the better, were ones where a diverse population of parents made a commitment to stick with it for as long as it was a good fit for their child. They played it year by year, instead of –before their child even hit the PreS classroom--making a decision to leave by a certain grade. This question of “how long do you plan on keeping your child in a DCPS/Charter,” is one of the underlying causes of why test scores will not improve any time soon. As long as there are a good number of parents (white, black or other) who are fine with taking what they can—tuition free—for “x” years, then extracting their kids for whatever reasons—real or imagined, you will not achieve the socio-economic or racial diversity that is needed to lift the experience of the student population in the District of Columbia. |
Anonymous
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What a thoughtful and excellent post. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen. It's not up to the parents to keep their kids in DCPS or charters to help improve the school system but rather up to the schools to provide a quality education where people will want to send their kids and stay. Looking at test scores for the quality of education provided, no one who has a choice will stay for long.
There's no political will in DC to provide magnets and/or gifted/talented programs that will attract upper socio-economic families. While there are charters that have gotten around this by offering immersion language which families self-select in, every step for overall improvement has been met with a stone wall for the status quo. So there you have it... we're not planning to stay and don't know any parents who will sacrifice their kids' one chance at an education who will if they have a choice. |