Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School - 2024 Edition

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Anonymous wrote:My non-JH, ACPS 2nd grader is starting to suffer the effects of being an average MC child in a class of high needs children. The fact that she is only performing at grade level when she was in the 97% on the NNAT in first grade seems to me that she is not reaching potential. But, her teachers and the school are overwhelmed by the 45% ESL population, meaning she does not even make the list of kids needing a parent-teacher conference. This is why one should not send their kids to certain schools - they will be consumed by kids needing 90% of teachers and staff attention and mediocrity becomes success.

Yes this is the key issue. What is needed in those schools is more than one teacher per classroom. Spend less on the central office and more on getting teachers into classrooms.

There are kids who start out in PreK and go all the way thru ACHS and are still failing and can barely read or do basic math. So clearly something the school is doing doesn’t work.

Public housing is filled with generational poverty. And that’s not mean it’s the fact that once a family is in they can’t leave because where else can they go they can afford. Blame the City for not helping two generations ago move into their own permanent housing.

The mistake of J-H was putting that IB program there. Instead they should have went with the traditional
model that Lyles Crouch. There was a high demand for that program and it had good results. I feel they cheated the students who needed it most.

I think this is going to consume ACPS at all schools - even the east end schools. ACPS’ ELL population is growing exponentially (hello sanctuary city policies). 40% of ACPS is ELL and growing. In some of that population the kids not only come from non-English speaking households, but households where the adults are illiterate (no matter the language). ACPS is not positioned to effectively and meaningfully educate kids in classrooms where a few are gifted and 40% come from illiterate, non-English-speaking homes. And a portion of those 40% are special needs. The teachers are not trained or equipped to address these disparities.

Who are you to say ACPS teachers are not trained or equipped to work with these students? All I see at school events are highly effective, professional teachers. Teachers with specialities in interventions and English language learning. Shame on you for putting down these hard working teachers who work thier butts off in difficult positions.

Woah, slow down there.

Not bashing teachers at all. Just saying they are being immeasurably challenged and not supported for the changing demographics. They are saints and doing their best no doubt. But, they are one person in a district increasing acceptable class size to 29. When that 29 student classroom could be 14 kids who do not speak English. That’s not good for anyone.

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J-H / ACPS will always be J-H / ACPS

https://www.alxnow.com/2024/04/09/jefferson-houston-elementary-school-administrators-put-on-leave-after-autistic-4-year-old-walked-away-from-school/#disqus_thread


And the response is to put Preann Johnson in charge, oh brother……