Reply to What are the odds of them eliminating neighborhood elementary schools in favor of controlled choice?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "What are the odds of them eliminating neighborhood elementary schools in favor of controlled choice?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous

identify the schools that are doing bad, and the reasons they are doing bad, then work on them. hire the best teachers, add programs, diversify education according to the level of students. if students have issues and need extra help, give it to them. if a child does not know how to ready in 4th grade, get that child extra help so he can learn to read  at grade level (you can send the child to Deal and Wilson, but if he does not how to read, he won't go anywhere).  this means qual education to me, all kids, no matter what is their backround, get to go to a school with great teachers, good programs, and especially at the elementary level, the extra help they may need to learn how to read and write and math if they are not lucky enough to have a familt that supports them in their learning. [/quote][/quote]

Quite simplistic prescriptions here.  Don't you think that DCPS has been on this road for the past decade?  targeting schools, firing principals, firing teachers, hiring new "best" teachers, giving "extra help", add programs (Fountas and Pinnell, ImagineLearning, I-ready, etc.

The reason schools are doing "bad" (sic) is because the majority of the students are low-SES.  Have you ever heard of the word gap?

So just get rid of poverty, and presto, you have "good" schools.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics