DCPS Elementary School Resources
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Anonymous
| What are the resources that WotP have that EotP elementary schools don’t? Is it just bells and whistles, like chickens and an edible garden? (I don’t want my kids to do gardening in school!) |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
We are at an EotP ES and my dc has plenty of peers above grade level. |
Anonymous
Yay for you. In 5th grade? |
Anonymous
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We are WOTP and the PTA raises funds for assistants in the lower grades.
At EOTP schools they are funded for these additional supports. Aftercare can be free. Lunch can be free. If you are at a Spanish immersion school, only Oyster is likely to have math materials in Spanish widely available. (According to teacher/tutor who comment on DC Eureka Spanish materials. |
Anonymous
EOTP gets Title I funding for a few more aides but it does not come anywhere close to meeting the academic and behavioral needs that come from having so many at-risk kids. It is not a better deal. WOTP parents like to think it is because then they don't have to think about the inequity. |
Anonymous
| EOTP tends to have more kids in SPED or at-risk relative to total enrollment, and there is extra funding but it does not really equal the costs of serving them. The percentage of high-income parents is smaller, and the incomes not as high. And the parents who donate money are often preschool parents, so they tend to be little younger and have student loans and a baby in daycare, so they aren't able to donate as much as they likely will 5 years down the road. |
Anonymous
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Ehhh- my EOTP schoo has a PTA that raises a lot of money. They are also slashing our parking lot down to 13 spots, in an attempt to get older teachers (those who don’t live in DC) to retire.
I’d take less PTA aides & amazon gift cards if it meant that parents didn’t run our school. |
Anonymous
Title 1 EOTP schools do not get the extra aides that Janney et al fund. They get a social worker to help kids and families in crisis, usually hire an addl psychologist, have more ELL teachers if the population warrants it. Like all DCPS schools there are specialists and aides who push in to help specific students who have IEPs, but they try to blend in and interact with all students, so as not to draw addl attention to the students with disabilities. There are far more students with SN in the Titke 1 schools though so it may seem they have more support. The support Title 1 schools get is to support high needs kids. If the upper Ward 3 had more at-risk students they would get these resources too. |
Anonymous
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OP, you can look at school budgets here:
http://dcpsdatacenter.com/ |
Anonymous
| Op, it depends on the school. Look at the budgets. Our WOTP school does not fund classroom aides but does have a decent PTA budget. |
Anonymous
No 4th. But the 5th graders have quite a number of kids who are above grade level. |
Anonymous
It's what the WOTP schools can pull in outside of the budget that counts, they pay for a lot of things for school, staff and students. |
Anonymous
Why are parents allowed to run your school? Sounds like a principal problem. |
Anonymous
Why do you think, because the principals get the money???? PTA or non-PTA or whatever they are called at some WOTP schools have power because they can bring in the big bucks and provide what is on the principals WISH LIST 
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