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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I've observed in DCPS, the leadership and admins tend to perceive high SES parents as "bullying" schools when they request basic flexibility that would likely be freely accorded in a better run, better thought through school system, whether urban or suburban.

Examples include asking if schools will accommodate students taking excused absences for well-documented foreign travel (while keeping up with school work diligently), students whose parents wish to opt out of "mandatory" elementary school language classes in one world language because kids are being raised to speak, read and write another, and students with learning disabilities whose parents would like them to take some classes with a higher elementary school grade and others with a lower grade (some principals will allow this approach, some won't).

There's a reason that Grosso and Charles Allen lobbied to get the Chief Student Advocate position at OSSE funded, and it's not because parents are doing most of the bullying in the system!

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....says the entitled intimidator...."Entitled Intimidators make no bones about what they want: special treatment for their child. They demand that rules be waived, exceptions made, policies upended"...I mean can you get more exemplary of this then the above statement? Classic.[/quote]

NP here. Call we parents whatever you want. We expect a school system which can meet the needs of its families - not where families need to meet the needs of bureaucrats. [/quote]

Let us know when you find it. Talk to parents in Montgomery County, Fairfax and Arlington and you'll see the same challenges.

What you want is called private school. [/quote]

Fair point![/quote]

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