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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Oh, ok, so all this, this whole thread, all 70+ pages, is really just about one random person in one single newspaper story who may or may not have been quoted accurately. Got it. [/quote]

They've gone to multiple different outlets to place their story and one of them is a PR specialist amazingly enough. If they weren't quoted accurately we'd all know.

Why they decided to air their kids' personal information all over the internet no one knows. But they have made themselves a spectacle and people are understandably frustrated that in a time of cuts the district and school are having to fight these families just to adhere to the existing policy because the principal whose character they had previously publicly impugned said no.

Almost the entire thread is people being like we support redshirting in cases where all parties agree and there is clear need. Simply having a summer birthday and refusing to take no for an answer are not one of those cases.[/quote]

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