Reply to How to tell a child they must leave a school that they love?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "How to tell a child they must leave a school that they love?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also would think twice about switching.  What concrete reasons are there to switch her at this point?  How do you know for sure that her academic needs will be met at the new school?  Is there demonstrable data to support this?  Does it have a middle school path? Is it worth giving up your neighborhood school for an unknown?

-someone who recently switched from our IB although kid loved it, after asking the same questions [/quote]

I don't think it's an unknown, we have various friends at the HRCS who are very happy with it and vouch for it being great for advanced readers.

The main reason is to ensure academic appropriateness for our DC in upper elementary and middle school, as our IB has the classic bottom-up gentrification and attrition problems so common EOTP.  The other reason is a much smaller student-teacher ratio at the HRCS.  At the IB, the class size is big and there are some behavior issues, and there was not a developmentally appropriate reading group in another classroom to send her to.  Not that a reading group is a make-or-break issue, but I just don't feel like she's really being challenged, and a lot of time is spent in group work or whole-class lessons that is far below her level academically.  And it seems like it'll only get worse as the higher-performing kids gradually leave the school.  DC does not know, but I know, that some of her friends at the IB school are likely to get into other HRCS or to leave the city entirely in the next year or so.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics