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Anonymous
| We had a rough start years ago when my DC entered pre-K/K. Finding the right place required trial and error thanks to DC public schools. When we found the right school I quickly forgot how stressful that was and settled back to enjoy 5 happy years. Now we've hit upon our school's greatest weakness, the issue that makes people leave each year but never gets addressed by the leadership. We've met with everyone we're suppose to meet with and been open, constructive, helpful... yet the issue is too big and too deep. To solve it would require firing a staff member and that is never easy (document, document, document). The leadership doesn't have the will to take it on. So here we go, off to open houses at privates, OOB applications for publics, plus serious conversations about moving. Happy New Year to me and to anyone else in the same boat! |
Anonymous
| What is the issue that involves a single staff member? |
Anonymous
| Sounds like it's a really bad 5th grade teacher that no one wants their child to get? But whom the administration is reluctant to fire? |
Anonymous
| Happy New Year! We're in a similar boat. We're leaving our private school for public next year, and trying to figure out how and when to tell the kids. We've been trying to build a good foundation for telling them, but they love their current school and are already objecting to the very idea of going somewhere else. We spent a year house hunting to get into a better public school boundary, but finally gave up on that and we're just going with our current FFX county school. |
Anonymous
| Too big and too deep sounds bigger and deeper than one bad teacher but perhaps that's it. But if it's one bad teacher how would OP know her child would get that teacher? |
Anonymous
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By 5th grdae a lot of schools split up the teaching staff -- some teach just math/science and social.english, maybe?
it's just a guess. I don't know what else would make a parent want a staff member fired. It can't be a principal, because why would a bad principal make a family leave only after 5 years? |