Help, why do some after school programs sucks!

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Anonymous wrote:To OP: to say something 'sucks' because it wasn't designed for your individual needs is... entitled. I hope you're teaching your kids better than this. As other posters have suggested, if it's working for most, learn more, deal with your own shit, and see what you can do to help change or modify. People with this entitled attitude make community meetings intolerable. The world does not revolve around you - please take a deep breath and re-think your approach!

+1. I'm hope this type doesn't represent most people now moving into the neighborhood.

I think the OP has a valid request, but I agree they could have formulated it better. Also this is a stretch, you don't even know what neighborhood they are talking about. And you are not always going to see eyes to eyes with all your neighbors.

+1. PP isn't entitled to neighbors who only see things her way. Neighborhoods change and expectations change with it.

Yeah but to say something sucks because it doesn’t conform to her desires (not even needs) is a stretch and not a sign of a decent person. Our neighborhood Target closes at 10pm, I wish it closed at 11pm so I can use it conveniently. I’m not going to say the neighborhood Target sucks. In fact, it’s great. I just wish they stayed open an hour later. See how easy it is?

I added +1 to the pp who indicated that OP could have formulated it better. However, I understand OP's frustration for how difficult this school choice issue is if you don't have the finances to move IB for a good school and also either stay at home or afford a nanny. I'm more concerned with the pp who's creating the us vs them mentality with neighbors in Shepherd Park. Yes, some new neighbors have higher expectations for Shepherd Elementary. No one is "more equal" than anyone else here and everyone's opinions are counted equally as well.

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Anonymous wrote:To OP: to say something 'sucks' because it wasn't designed for your individual needs is... entitled. I hope you're teaching your kids better than this. As other posters have suggested, if it's working for most, learn more, deal with your own shit, and see what you can do to help change or modify. People with this entitled attitude make community meetings intolerable. The world does not revolve around you - please take a deep breath and re-think your approach!

+1. I'm hope this type doesn't represent most people now moving into the neighborhood.

I think the OP has a valid request, but I agree they could have formulated it better. Also this is a stretch, you don't even know what neighborhood they are talking about. And you are not always going to see eyes to eyes with all your neighbors.

+1. PP isn't entitled to neighbors who only see things her way. Neighborhoods change and expectations change with it.

Yeah but to say something sucks because it doesn’t conform to her desires (not even needs) is a stretch and not a sign of a decent person. Our neighborhood Target closes at 10pm, I wish it closed at 11pm so I can use it conveniently. I’m not going to say the neighborhood Target sucks. In fact, it’s great. I just wish they stayed open an hour later. See how easy it is?

I added +1 to the pp who indicated that OP could have formulated it better. However, I understand OP's frustration for how difficult this school choice issue is if you don't have the finances to move IB for a good school and also either stay at home or afford a nanny. I'm more concerned with the pp who's creating the us vs them mentality with neighbors in Shepherd Park. Yes, some new neighbors have higher expectations for Shepherd Elementary. No one is "more equal" than anyone else here and everyone's opinions are counted equally as well.

Interesting. So the current neighbors have lower expectations than the new folks moving in? This seems like a baseless assumption.

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Anonymous wrote:To OP: to say something 'sucks' because it wasn't designed for your individual needs is... entitled. I hope you're teaching your kids better than this. As other posters have suggested, if it's working for most, learn more, deal with your own shit, and see what you can do to help change or modify. People with this entitled attitude make community meetings intolerable. The world does not revolve around you - please take a deep breath and re-think your approach!

+1. I'm hope this type doesn't represent most people now moving into the neighborhood.

I think the OP has a valid request, but I agree they could have formulated it better. Also this is a stretch, you don't even know what neighborhood they are talking about. And you are not always going to see eyes to eyes with all your neighbors.

+1. PP isn't entitled to neighbors who only see things her way. Neighborhoods change and expectations change with it.

Yeah but to say something sucks because it doesn’t conform to her desires (not even needs) is a stretch and not a sign of a decent person. Our neighborhood Target closes at 10pm, I wish it closed at 11pm so I can use it conveniently. I’m not going to say the neighborhood Target sucks. In fact, it’s great. I just wish they stayed open an hour later. See how easy it is?

I added +1 to the pp who indicated that OP could have formulated it better. However, I understand OP's frustration for how difficult this school choice issue is if you don't have the finances to move IB for a good school and also either stay at home or afford a nanny. I'm more concerned with the pp who's creating the us vs them mentality with neighbors in Shepherd Park. Yes, some new neighbors have higher expectations for Shepherd Elementary. No one is "more equal" than anyone else here and everyone's opinions are counted equally as well.

Interesting. So the current neighbors have lower expectations than the new folks moving in? This seems like a baseless assumption.

NP. Shepherd Elementary used to be full of OOB students, of course the expectations are going to be higher now that there are more inbound families in the school. Maybe that is what PP was trying to say? In any case I agree with the general idea that when someone posts something people don't like here on DCUM, someone would say something like "I hope these are not the people moving in...". Yeah, please stop that.

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O boy.

The IB families have higher expectations for what?

[Anonymous]

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The IB families have higher expectations for what?

of everything? it is well proven that schools with majority inbound perform better. No need to fake ignorance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:O boy.

The IB families have higher expectations for what?

of everything? it is well proven that schools with majority inbound perform better. No need to fake ignorance.

Actually, the two top-performing DCPS schools are application schools, with no IB or OOB students. And plenty of low-performing schools have a majority of IB students -- Whittier 63%; Ballou - 72% IB; Roosevelt 62% -- not to mention several charters, with no boundary and admissions by lottery outperform some of the majority IB DCPS schools (the ones in the Wilson pattern, since I assume that's what you were referring to).

[Anonymous]

Bc the pay is bad.