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[quote=Anonymous]How much do you think you can influence/improve your DCPS/DC Public Charter School?

I have recently experienced that expressing my family's expectations and desires really helped in improving the education in 2 of my kids' classrooms (elementary). We came from another system that was a lot more rigorous and the transition here provided a pretty stark contrast. But I went ahead and started a conversation early in hopes that the teachers would be open to our requests and questions, and I have been very happy with the outcome - teachers who seemed to be doing the minimum actually pointing out how proud they were at students' progress with some changes, printing out lesson plans for me to see what they're working on, etc.

I went from "Eek! What did we get into!" To, "Wow, these teachers care, they may be somewhat inexperienced, but they seem willing to improve and make a difference in the kids' education, and they are making an effort."

Now I am curious in a more general sense, how do people here feel about influencing/improving the education in their classrooms/school in DCPS? Do you feel invested, that your needs and requests are heard and considered?

I have certain reasons for asking this- we have a decision on whether to stay at this school or overcome some obstacles to go to a better school (but several downsides in that route, so I'm hoping to stay at this DCPS).

Thank you![/quote]

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