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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does it seem like so many Lafayette parents clearly would rather have their kids in private schools, but don't either because they can't afford it or their kids weren't special enough. These parents then spend the entirety of their time at Lafayette making everyone else at the school miserable.[/quote]

Stop comparing DCPS to a private school.  It just isn’t, doesn’t serve the same population, etc.  For all of its faults DCPS has to manage so much more diversity in every way you can imagine that a private school.  And many of those resources need to go to support kids who lack resources and stable adults at home.  If you want to dictate what happens in your child’s school, go to private school.[/quote]

DC residents are paying some of the highest state and local tax rates in the entire country, in a place that spends more per student than the vast majority of other states/jurisdictions, so of course we should have high expectations of the public schools that we fund.

Your apathetic, hands-off, let the bureaucrats take care of it approach is frankly far too common and a large part of why our schools are performing at their current levels.[/quote]

DP. I'm the opposite of apathetic. I've sat on my school's LSAT for three year's running, am an active member of the PTO, and have lobbied Central Office on multiple occasions on behalf of curriculum and administrative changes I think would benefit our school and the district as a whole.

I don't give a flying **** whether some rich parents at Lafayette get to redshirt their kids who apparently don't even have diagnosed special needs. If you are an involved, committed parent within DCPS, you'd know this is like the dumbest and least important controversy the district could possibly have. There are schools with principals who are literally incompetent. There are school building that are falling apart at the seams and in desperate need of replacing but the school is still 3 years out from their renovation date. DCPS as a whole continues to have major truancy issues post-Covid. There are internal debates being had regarding tech and screens in classrooms, how to implement the new phone and watch ban, and how to handle issues related to social media, bullying, and privacy at schools.

You do not get to lecture me about being "apathetic" or "hands-off" within DCPS. I'm sorry you screwed up and assumed your principal would allow you to redshirt your 6 year old and then found out they wouldn't. I wouldn't worry overmuch about it -- by virtue of having highly educated parents and having had several years of preschool prior, your children are likely already testing at or above kindergarten level in DC. Certainly higher than the average DCPS kindergartener. They are going to be okay.

This is not even within the top 100 most critical issues in DCPS right now. It's a tiny issue affecting a handful of the district's best resourced and supported students. Please grow up and deal.[/quote]

+1. Sorry that a few parents thought that rules that are clearly written didn’t apply to their special snowflake kids. It’s disturbing and unfair to have kids far older than their counterparts in classes -pay for private school if you want to have your kids who have no diagnosed special needs treated in a special way and be the oldest in their class if they can’t hack it in the correct grade. [/quote]

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