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[quote=Anonymous]We're an English dominant but Spanish speaking family.  My son has had lots of playdates in Spanish, but we seek that out.  I've also never spoken English with any of my son's Spanish teachers --- they have seemed very relieved that we were comfortable doing conferences and meetings in Spanish.  Could be a challenge if you are English-only.

Our biggest issue is the chaos.  A lot is demanded of kids --- they are punished by having recess withheld for forgetting assignments for example,  but our experience of teachers has been that they constantly forget, lose, misplace and overlook things.  They assign big projects, then don't collect them.  They collect work and never grade it.  They don't show up for parent teacher conferences at the agreed time. There are no processes, no best practices, little follow through on commitments.  Also, we have an issue generally with how discipline is handled.  The preferred method --- in direct contravention of DCPS healthy schools policy --- is to withhold recess.  We have also heard of kids being denied lunch, or kept in class until lunch is over, so they don't get to eat.[/quote]

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