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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the start of the school year and I'm overjoyed at sending my kids to their neighborhood school after a terrible pandemic year and a half. If you are considering putting your kids into EL Haynes Elementary I would tell you not to do it. [b]The school really dropped the ball during the pandemic and has an ineffectual parent association that is essentially a public relations tool for the school. Parents have zero input and were left powerless during the pandemic. Parent teacher conferences disappeared. Teachers bailed. It was a disaster. During the early days of the pandemic, during school hours, I found my kid's teacher at the grocery store buying wine. [/b]

If you are looking for a school with a strong sense of community, I would not send my child to Haynes.

I wish more schools were judged not just on teacher abilities (very important) but also how involved are the parents, and how well the school encourages and promotes accountability. So many charter schools have zero accountability. 
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This is the story of every public school in DC during the pandemic. They all failed miserably. [/quote]

If you look back through the depressing pandemic threads last year, you will see plenty of us who learned the hard way that charters can do whatever the f they want including not reopen. So yes OP this is an issue through the whole sector. At least DCPS had a central authority to lay down the law which didn’t exactly work, but, somehow it’s doubly painful to realize no one has the parents back at charters. They can all afford to lose you and lottery in someone else. They easily prioritize teacher feelings over parents because of this. Or their own feelings (paranoid admins). DCPS failed too but charters were overall much worse IMO.

Again, see how many kids left charters for dcps this year instead of the usual vice versa.[/quote]

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