do you know a lot of people who are leaving DCPS next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Meh I’m in Ward 4, DC middle class, and everyone I know is pondering other options outside of public school in DC. Either moving to the suburbs or figuring out whether they can swing private for the short term.

Which burbs and is it really pandemic related or are they approaching middle school? The burb schools are a mess. Even in fluent areas like Whitman people are constantly complaining, and with county schools you wind up with similar challenges to DC.

No, all young ES kids. It’s a question of trying to but IB for the Wilson feeder schools or the near exurbs or suburbs. DC (and charters) not having any firm plans means people are pushing up their moves out of DC (that they would have done later). For those considering privates, that is largely Catholic, and it seems like a short term solution. Charters seem to be willing to allow you to enroll in a private school but keep your charter spot....so....

What? Absolutely no need to tell any charter, or DCPS, that you're enrolling in private school of course. You can tell admins before the start of the school year if you want, but no obligation.

You don't even need to tell them until a week or two into the school year (don't show, any longer than that, and they'll give your spot away).

Upon re-reading I see I wasn't very clear.

What I mean is, these parents are paying for their kids to go to private school or private preschool right now (some even have their kids enrolled abroad), and are ALSO enrolled in public charters. They don't want to lose their charter spots, but also think DL is garbage. It's pretty easy to satisfy attendance (at least for these specific people and their charters). I guess this means the DC school enrollment doesn't decline if they continue to do this next year, and they aren't technically "leaving" the DC system. In a way I guess its good because they aren't using any school resources (and those school resources can be directed to kids with higher needs).

At any rate, because of their experiences this year, some are wondering whether they'll just stick to privates as they don't see the charters getting better in terms of IPL next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DL has had it problems. But it has taught my kids that they must adapt and because of that it’s been a valuable lesson. Life isn’t going to go your way all the time. This is where resiliency is made.

Why stop at children? Maybe if teachers had the things worth living taken away, they might also learn resilience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DL has had it problems. But it has taught my kids that they must adapt and because of that it’s been a valuable lesson. Life isn’t going to go your way all the time. This is where resiliency is made.

Why stop at children? Maybe if teachers had the things worth living taken away, they might also learn resilience.

Why stop at teachers? Why not institute a yearly purge so people really learn resilience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL has had it problems. But it has taught my kids that they must adapt and because of that it’s been a valuable lesson. Life isn’t going to go your way all the time. This is where resiliency is made.

Why stop at children? Maybe if teachers had the things worth living taken away, they might also learn resilience.

Why stop at teachers? Why not institute a yearly purge so people really learn resilience.

Don’t forget pets.

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Anonymous wrote:Real Estate forum: I've put 15 over-ask offers on houses with none accepted.

Private School forum: The acceptance rate is at an all-time low.

This forum: I PERSONALLY KNOW 67 FAMILIES THAT ARE TAKING THEIR KIDS OUT OF DCPS.

No, you don't. You'll be there in September with the rest of us.

No i do know a large number of kids (12+) who are going to private or Catholic schools next year. Acceptances in hand. I also know two others who are leaving DC (found out about them yesterday).

None of these families are selling their homes. They are either living in them (the ones attending private/independent) or renting them out (the two families who are moving).

What school? Don't lie like everyone else in this thread who just want to stir the pot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real Estate forum: I've put 15 over-ask offers on houses with none accepted.

Private School forum: The acceptance rate is at an all-time low.

This forum: I PERSONALLY KNOW 67 FAMILIES THAT ARE TAKING THEIR KIDS OUT OF DCPS.

No, you don't. You'll be there in September with the rest of us.

No i do know a large number of kids (12+) who are going to private or Catholic schools next year. Acceptances in hand. I also know two others who are leaving DC (found out about them yesterday).

None of these families are selling their homes. They are either living in them (the ones attending private/independent) or renting them out (the two families who are moving).

What school? Don't lie like everyone else in this thread who just want to stir the pot.

DP. How will you know if PP lies? How do you know any of the PPs lied?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL has had it problems. But it has taught my kids that they must adapt and because of that it’s been a valuable lesson. Life isn’t going to go your way all the time. This is where resiliency is made.

Why stop at children? Maybe if teachers had the things worth living taken away, they might also learn resilience.

Why stop at teachers? Why not institute a yearly purge so people really learn resilience.

Don’t forget pets.

LOL, this. I find that when people say that kids need to learn resilience, it means that adults are screwing over kids but don't want to inconvenience themselves. I don't believe the resilience poster is really a parent. This resilience line is one of the WTU sound bites, and only a really crappy parent would advocate for willfully putting their child in a bad situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DL has had it problems. But it has taught my kids that they must adapt and because of that it’s been a valuable lesson. Life isn’t going to go your way all the time. This is where resiliency is made.

Why stop at children? Maybe if teachers had the things worth living taken away, they might also learn resilience.

Why stop at teachers? Why not institute a yearly purge so people really learn resilience.

Don’t forget pets.

Please seek therapy, you or you all are mentally ill.

[Anonymous]

I don't know of anyone or at least, no one's mentioned it.
We are leaving, but also haven't mentioned it and won't. DC's teacher is aware of the possibility because of required teacher recommendations.

But we decided to leave less because of COVID response and more wanting to try a different environment for DC, take advantage of the relaxed admission requirements this year, and ultimately, get DC in the private sooner rather then later (when it was supposed to be less competitive). The city's response to COVID kind of made the decision that much easier, but were we not accepted, we'd have happily stayed and tried again in a couple of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh I’m in Ward 4, DC middle class, and everyone I know is pondering other options outside of public school in DC. Either moving to the suburbs or figuring out whether they can swing private for the short term.

Which burbs and is it really pandemic related or are they approaching middle school? The burb schools are a mess. Even in fluent areas like Whitman people are constantly complaining, and with county schools you wind up with similar challenges to DC.

No, all young ES kids. It’s a question of trying to but IB for the Wilson feeder schools or the near exurbs or suburbs. DC (and charters) not having any firm plans means people are pushing up their moves out of DC (that they would have done later). For those considering privates, that is largely Catholic, and it seems like a short term solution. Charters seem to be willing to allow you to enroll in a private school but keep your charter spot....so....

What? Absolutely no need to tell any charter, or DCPS, that you're enrolling in private school of course. You can tell admins before the start of the school year if you want, but no obligation.

You don't even need to tell them until a week or two into the school year (don't show, any longer than that, and they'll give your spot away).

Why would you do that to another child waiting for a spot at that school? If you know you aren’t enrolling, why wouldn’t you just tell the school?

There are uber parents in this city who see it as their prerogative to hedge their bets on a variety of schools, to play the field aggressively. They try out a private in the fall and if the kid doesn't like it, stay where they are in the public system. They even try a DC public and a suburban public coterminously. I certainly wouldn't take that tact, but others do.

[Anonymous]

Yes, many in upper NW. Its more than just how DCPS has handled the pandemic though. It’s also how critical race theory has overtaken the curriculum in just about every subject. I want my kids to learn about our not so great history. But the constant indoctrination that my family achieved everything through “privilege” and that we are all surely closet racists has become too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the transplant whites in DC are definitely a type. they live in the city for 10 years and don't need city services other than the bus/metro and have no idea what is going on in schools, with the poor, etc. They love DC for the great restaurants and cultural stuff. And now that their kid is in a public they finally stop being a tourist.

That is true of any person who is a transplant to a new city in their early 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, many in upper NW. Its more than just how DCPS has handled the pandemic though. It’s also how critical race theory has overtaken the curriculum in just about every subject. I want my kids to learn about our not so great history. But the constant indoctrination that my family achieved everything through “privilege” and that we are all surely closet racists has become too much.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, many in upper NW. Its more than just how DCPS has handled the pandemic though. It’s also how critical race theory has overtaken the curriculum in just about every subject. I want my kids to learn about our not so great history. But the constant indoctrination that my family achieved everything through “privilege” and that we are all surely closet racists has become too much.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, many in upper NW. Its more than just how DCPS has handled the pandemic though. It’s also how critical race theory has overtaken the curriculum in just about every subject. I want my kids to learn about our not so great history. But the constant indoctrination that my family achieved everything through “privilege” and that we are all surely closet racists has become too much.

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I'm sure I'll be crucified for saying this but I would like my kids to read one book (a single book) before graduation that is not about race or slavery. Every single ELA book at Deal (for 3 years) has been about this. The same went for 4th and 5th grades at our JKLM.
My kid has learned nothing about anything else (except for math and science) for the past 5 years.