DCPS Elementary School Resources

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure school assemblies are important nor are afterschool enrichment. School aids to deal with SPED kids are important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure school assemblies are important nor are afterschool enrichment. School aids to deal with SPED kids are important.

Small PTAs can't afford to fund an aide-- that's a $50,000 a year commitment at least. They can provide assemblies to give the kids a fun experience for $500. I'm hoping that some day we can be like the rich WOTP PTAs and give our kids everything that they give their kids. But for now we're doing what we can to enrich their experience.

[Anonymous]

Well EOTR has immersion programs and we in ward 8 do not.

My students EOTR have extra after school programs that are not offered WOTR.

My child’s school has a small PTA that hardly raises any money. WOTR schools have way more parent volunteers than my child’s school.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Not Eaton or Mann....


Again, that person’s list above was a “best of” compilation. WOTP schools (and likely many others) tend to have 1 or 2 of the special resources from that list. No school has anything near all of that.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Not Eaton or Mann....


Again, that person’s list above was a “best of” compilation. WOTP schools (and likely many others) tend to have 1 or 2 of the special resources from that list. No school has anything near all of that.

If you don't know the school how do you know none of them have it all? Those are the only two schools I've been at so I can't say what other schools have or don't have. You can't say my experience isn't true because it's not your experience.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Not Eaton or Mann....


Again, that person’s list above was a “best of” compilation. WOTP schools (and likely many others) tend to have 1 or 2 of the special resources from that list. No school has anything near all of that.

If you don't know the school how do you know none of them have it all? Those are the only two schools I've been at so I can't say what other schools have or don't have. You can't say my experience isn't true because it's not your experience.

dp: We’ve been at a couple of different schools that are among the most active and well-resourced PTAs. That full list of great things is not possible. Besides, just read dcum for a while and you will a lot of random details about a lot of schools.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Not Eaton or Mann....


Again, that person’s list above was a “best of” compilation. WOTP schools (and likely many others) tend to have 1 or 2 of the special resources from that list. No school has anything near all of that.

If you don't know the school how do you know none of them have it all? Those are the only two schools I've been at so I can't say what other schools have or don't have. You can't say my experience isn't true because it's not your experience.

dp: We’ve been at a couple of different schools that are among the most active and well-resourced PTAs. That full list of great things is not possible. Besides, just read dcum for a while and you will a lot of random details about a lot of schools.

What's not possible?

[Anonymous]

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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?

Not Eaton or Mann....


Again, that person’s list above was a “best of” compilation. WOTP schools (and likely many others) tend to have 1 or 2 of the special resources from that list. No school has anything near all of that.

If you don't know the school how do you know none of them have it all? Those are the only two schools I've been at so I can't say what other schools have or don't have. You can't say my experience isn't true because it's not your experience.

dp: We’ve been at a couple of different schools that are among the most active and well-resourced PTAs. That full list of great things is not possible. Besides, just read dcum for a while and you will a lot of random details about a lot of schools.

What's not possible?

Any individual item is possible. No school can do all (or most) of them with a year’s PTA funds.

[Anonymous]

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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

This is wayyyy exaggerated.

Which part. Because I would love to know what part of my experience is exaggerated.

This does not describe my WOTP ES

[Anonymous]

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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

This is wayyyy exaggerated.

Which part. Because I would love to know what part of my experience is exaggerated.

This does not describe my WOTP ES

So your school doesn't do as much as my previous school. I never said it was your WOTP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is peers on or above grade level.

It is a PTA that raises six figures every year.

It is a high level of political influence so downtown and the mayor treats them well.

We are at an EotP ES and my dc has plenty of peers above grade level.

Yay for you. In 5th grade?

BS.no parcc scores show “plenty”’of kids at or above grade level.
I’m a parent at an EoTP school and much like all my UMC peers, we are bailing by 2nd grade. A solid cohort of peers is critical after third grade . We don’t want our daughter “helping
Other slow kids in class and the. Being told it’s good for our kid becasluae they are in unable to offer advanced stuff

[Anonymous]

All the WOTP schools have already been named as this list being wholly innaccurate: Janney, Murch, Mann, Eaton. Is it Lafayette? I sort of doubt it.

[Anonymous]

PP, please pay attention. Reread her post. Her previous school is a charter school, not DCPS. It is most likely CMI. It has everything she listed that her “old PTA” supported. My kid used to go there. The post is from a teacher who used to work there and is now teaching elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, please pay attention. Reread her post. Her previous school is a charter school, not DCPS. It is most likely CMI. It has everything she listed that her “old PTA” supported. My kid used to go there. The post is from a teacher who used to work there and is now teaching elsewhere.

Where does the OP or the PP with the great long list say that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is peers on or above grade level.

It is a PTA that raises six figures every year.

It is a high level of political influence so downtown and the mayor treats them well.

We are at an EotP ES and my dc has plenty of peers above grade level.

Yay for you. In 5th grade?

BS.no parcc scores show “plenty”’of kids at or above grade level.
I’m a parent at an EoTP school and much like all my UMC peers, we are bailing by 2nd grade. A solid cohort of peers is critical after third grade . We don’t want our daughter “helping
Other slow kids in class and the. Being told it’s good for our kid becasluae they are in unable to offer advanced stuff

I have a 4th grader and she has plenty of above grade level peers. You can’t base reality on one test. I’m at her school and seen her peers. You clearly don’t understand early elementary school. By third grade most slow readers have caught up to the advanced readers. My older child went to a big 3 private for a reason that DCPS couldn’t handle and the slower kids largely caught up by 3rd. You are judging small kids and clearly lack the understanding of education. Your post comes off as a high maintenance, aggressive idiot. Well, you and your UMC peers can bail. You will find the private don’t accelerate better than DCPS because I’ve BTDT. Good luck lady!