Reply to What's it like to be in a new charter school in its first year?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "What's it like to be in a new charter school in its first year?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Good news is that you are in.

Bad news is that there's a huge learning curve.  I don't care how much planning and experience the charter organizers have, there's just simply a huge learning curve.  And they are learning on your guinea pig (I mean " dear child").

Is it awful?  No, not necessarily.  But expect a lot of surprises, be ready to pitch in, don't expect smooth communications or extras (science fair! field trips!  parent website/newsletter!).

My biggest worry is for parents of kids who will need support, either already on an IEP or 504, or who are undiagnosed at this point.  This is an extremely difficult and complicated area for any school, but a charter is the whole school district so there are no other resources to draw on, unlike in a school district where there is a department set up to handle those situations.  Now, once a charter gets that aspect of its program going, there's no question in my mind that it will be light years better than most traditional DCPS schools, but they will not get there their first year (or three).  And it's very hard for parents to navigate that either unless they have experience.  Those will be lost years, lost services, time not used in early prevention.  [/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