Which school district to move to from DCPS?

[Anonymous]

A question to parents who are considering moving out of DCPS (and I’m guessing there are tons more of you than there were before the DCPS vs WTU sh..t show and disgusting teachers’ comments on this forum) - what school district would be your top choice and why?

I know none has really opened, but to me, the fact that all schools in the country were going to go hybrid 2 days/week, and DCPS came up with their own “unique” plan speaks volumes to me that the district management is way too inadequate to improve within my kids school age time period.

[Anonymous]

90% of these people won’t leave DCPS. They are just on here bitching. At least 50% of these people are trolls to begin with.

[Anonymous]

I'm not actually sure that DCPS is uniquely bad. Hybrid was apparently rejected by the WTU earlier in the year. The reopening plan was the plan B to try to help the neediest kids, for all its obvious faults.

Anyway, I would probably move to NYC at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of these people won’t leave DCPS. They are just on here bitching. At least 50% of these people are trolls to begin with.

I think you're wrong about that. I'm much, much more likely to move now for MS. Previously I had been pretty sure that I would stay in DCPS for MS and HS. But now I'm going to make a much bigger effort to move or use a charter instead, or even make a major financial sacrifice for a private. Even Catholic schools (which I had been adamantly opposed to as an ex-Catholic) are a possibility for us now. I realize that charters have not reopened either, but I would do anything to distance myself and my kid from the WTU now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of these people won’t leave DCPS. They are just on here bitching. At least 50% of these people are trolls to begin with.

50% - I think you are under estimating

I love that they are all writing WTU - now we can see real numbers of who thinks going back is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Also funny people will leave - the pandemic will end. Yes DCPS is crazy during the pandemic. DCPS has good things and bad things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:90% of these people won’t leave DCPS. They are just on here bitching. At least 50% of these people are trolls to begin with.

50% - I think you are under estimating

I love that they are all writing WTU - now we can see real numbers of who thinks going back is a good idea.

I think it’s probably the same 15-20 posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also funny people will leave - the pandemic will end. Yes DCPS is crazy during the pandemic. DCPS has good things and bad things.

Yes, the pandemic will end, but I do worry that if too many people with options leave, DCPS quality will suffer. Everybody should be concerned about that rather than thinking they can just say "Buh-bye, no one will miss you".

[Anonymous]

I’m just really confused by people who are finally realizing that DCPS is incompetent. They have been like this forever. You have just been in your well run upper NW or Capital Hill bubble school. Everyone has realized this long ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m just really confused by people who are finally realizing that DCPS is incompetent. They have been like this forever. You have just been in your well run upper NW or Capital Hill bubble school. Everyone has realized this long ago.

No, I'm finally realizing that WTU is a huge problem.

[Anonymous]

Well, we are tied to the area for work reasons, and likely limited to Maryland for family reasons. I think at this point we are eyeing Howard County and Ann Arundel. There is variation by schools, of course, but we'd like to keep our kid in a diverse (both racially and socio-economically) school environment, and both HoCo and AA seem to offer that, but also have a better run system than PG or Baltimore Counties.

One thing about HoCo that is appealing to me is that I've read a bit about how they have handled redistricting challenges, and there seems to be a higher commitment to equity there, and leadership that is willing to stand up to wealthy parents who just want to hoard resources. That's a huge problem in DCPS, and it would be really liberating to finally be in a school district that hasn't just handed the keys to charter programs and left everyone else to twist in the wind. I think a lot of the problems in DCPS go back to the district's decision to allow the most privileged public families to abandon DCPS schools for HRCs. It's had massive ripple effects and only seems to get worse every year. And wow would it be nice to get away from the PK lottery and all the weirdness it creates between families in DC. Being a parent in DCPS is uniquely stressful in ways that I never expected after going to public schools my entire life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m just really confused by people who are finally realizing that DCPS is incompetent. They have been like this forever. You have just been in your well run upper NW or Capital Hill bubble school. Everyone has realized this long ago.

No, I'm finally realizing that WTU is a huge problem.

Its not though. They rarely even get a contract through. It takes years of working with the old one. That shows the real problem is in the administration. No other place in the world has the mayor's office in charge of schools. We need a system structured more like a large county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m just really confused by people who are finally realizing that DCPS is incompetent. They have been like this forever. You have just been in your well run upper NW or Capital Hill bubble school. Everyone has realized this long ago.

Well, yes, my family has been fine with DCPS because we are at a school with a great principal. The pandemic has put us fully at the whims of the incompetent system rather than in the bubble we were content with. If this dynamic persists, we will leave.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun.

They are actively going back to in-person learning. K-2 are back and they're bringing back the rest of elementary students in a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun.

They are actively going back to in-person learning. K-2 are back and they're bringing back the rest of elementary students in a week.

Actually. Officially Loudoun brought back k-2 a few weeks ago and is bringing back grades 3-5 on Tuesday (Dec 1).