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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've had my kids in a collective 22 years of DCPS but have one in private high school this year and it's night and day over the DCPS foolery.  Kid has already read 3 books including the Odyssey and written a half dozen papers.  Classes are quiet and kids are respectful.  My kid misses the fights and the drama of DCPS but he/she is learning. 
The wealth is not an issue and there is about 55% kids of color, 30% of kids on aid.   We are scraping our pennies together for this experience because we were tired of the hit-of-miss and often chaotic environment of DCPS.  Last year my kid had an ELA teacher who only logged on 50% of the time. The other 50%?  I have no idea.  I talked to the principal and the principal 
said there was nothing to be done because there was a valid excuse (different one each day) each time.  My stress level over school has returned to zero.  No fights.  Quiet classrooms. Textbooks. Multiple writing assignments.  It's  ridiculous that we have to pay for what was a standard experience when we were kids.  [/quote]

Glad private is working out for you.

For a slightly different perspective - Wilson’s admin is a mess, but my kid never experience violence or bullying of any kind in 4 years at Wilson. There were a few fights, but his take was that the kids involved were generally kids who felt they needed to maintain a reputation for being tough.  As a parent, I know that there ARE kids whose experience has been different, but that’s what my kid thinks.

In contrast, my white, working class high school was very, very much more violent than Wilson.  Growing up, I didn’t know anybody who hadn’t been in a lot of fistfights.  My kid and all of his close friends have never had that experience.  [/quote]

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