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[quote=Anonymous]our experience with cap city has been uneven. i think it is fair to characterize the views of my fellow parents that way as well. i do know that parents have more issues/complaints/problems as children age. the lower grades are quite good. my take on this is that there is a lack of strong leadership there. [b]the teachers are not well-trained, frankly[/b]. i am not sure the principals and other academic officers are either and so there is a 
sense of "the blind leading the blind" sometimes, particularly when you really start pressing the teacher/principal for details/action plans etc.

given all of this, i think it is fair to say that the expansion they are planning is going to prove a challenge. i think they are planning to literally double the size of the school in the next year or so. now maybe the relatively suburban location will indirectly help them out by drawing a more educated, middle-class population, since the new school is not easily accessible by public transportation. plenty of middle class parents who own property in a denser part of the city will be happy to drive to avoid a lowe performing dcps.

one big benefit of ccpcs is the supportive, communal feel of the place. that is something that they do right. more than any other school i have experienced, ccpcs feels like a happy and safe place.

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