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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'm actually not planning on taking little Larla and Karla and Marla out of school anytime soon.  But, I am someone who likes to be creative and see if things can be made more workable whilst following the regulations.

Someone recently said on here that MoCo celebrates their piano prodigies and spelling bee champs and supports their extracurricular enrichment activities that may take them out of school.  I would like to see this type of support in DC for true enrichment activities.

It is sad to see that DC's best and brightest (as I assumed folks on these boards were) are in reality incapable of creative thinking and constructive engagement.  Really?  Your only solution is that I should move little Larla to private school if her penchant for the tuba turns into real talent and she's suddenly invited to play at the Met?  But little Larla loves her DCPS and would sorely miss her friends.  So she would rather give up her tuba and spend her life in mediocrity rather than switching schools.  Is this really the only option that DCUM can come up with?  How sad.

And, lest someone bring up Relisha Rudd again, note that her mom was gaming the system.  Relisha had too many unexcused absences and got the warning letter, so Relisha's mom had her friend at DC General pen excuse notes on DC General stationary.  Yes, the same friend who ended up being suspected of abducting her.  So the problem was, the absences WERE excused.

My point is, you can have rules up the wazoo and folks will choose to ignore them or game them for their own benefit, and all the rules in the world won't stop them (rules against preferential contracting abound in DC, yet contracting scandals persist).  Why not allow parents who actually want to follow the rules the ability to do so by providing some well thought-out parameters for them to follow?

C'mon DC, you're better than this.[/quote]

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