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We live in Ward 4 and have our kid in a DCPS where many or most of the kids are doing the same or worse, but again not to sugarcoat it, we're a dual income meritocrat high-income family whose parents/siblings/other kids have done more than good in school, [b]basically excelled always,[/b] whichever schools we've gone to (which have varied a lot)....and our [b]baseline expectations are either excellence without extraordinary effort (parents and other kids) or at least ability in line with elementary school kids in Ward 3.[/b]
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To me, this distinctly seems like undereducation. Not necessarily a developmental delay or anything, just "well, everybody else in this DCPS Title I elementary is doing this bad so [b]shrug[/b]." I am not surprised if that's the way it really is for the teachers there, who probably work from the worst kids on up, triage style, and t[b]his kid, who's not failing but not excelling, gets ignored[/b].
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[b]Your kid is failing![/b] The teachers are not likely ignoring your kid and focusing on "the worst", because your kid is doing is "the worst"  in a gen-ed classroom for 4th grade. My condolences on having an apple fall so far from the Tree of a High-Income "Meritocrat" Family, but you need to open your eyes here! Do you have MAP scores, iReady scores, PARCC scores, anything to give you a reality check?

I would try very hard, right now, to get on track for a school and feeder pattern-- with a strong special needs program (and that might not be Inspired Teaching despite what they say). Maybe a private school. And a tutor specializing in special needs math. Request the IEP today so that you can start getting services.[/quote]

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