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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The jealousy and pettiness and sense of victimhood on this thread is something to behold. A gentle reminder that DC public schools are not very good. Standardized testing suggests your kids would get a better education if they went to any random public school in Iowa. So the idea that if a kid "reshirts" or, put more directly, repeats a grade at a mediocre school, that he or she will get some amazing benefit and be transformed into a math whiz or something seems disconnected from reality. [/quote]

The idea that Lafayette moms are saying that other folks have a "sense of victimhood" is amazing. If you hate DCPS so much, go elsewhere. It sounds like folks at Lafayette would rather you did too.[/quote]

Not a Lafayette mom. Just saying that parents can have good reasons to hold their kids back; you don't actually know what those reasons are and they dont have to tell you; and if a child is held back, it has zero consequences for your child. Reading this thread you'd think all the kids who didnt "get" to repeat a grade are getting completely screwed over. [/quote]

If you're talking to a reporter about it in order to advocate for a policy and you're using your kids as examples, you're making it people's business. [/quote]

They made this public and now that it is, everyone wants to know if DCPS caves and lets the kid enroll in K.  And if they do, then I will certainly advocate for DCPS to give me things I didn’t think I was entitled to under previous policies.  I wrote this upthread but for instance getting my child into the class of the teacher I’d prefer each year.  Or ensuring they are enrolled in the courses I want them in in HS, even if the school has policies on class size or prerequisites.  Why should I pay attention to these policies anymore?[/quote]

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