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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids go to Janney, and I would happily support increasing class sizes by 10 percent and saving those spots for at-risk students. That’s two kids per class. Does anyone seriously think that would be outrageously disruptive? Your kids can handle having a couple more friends. [/quote]
If the right supports for such kids were in place in DCPS, right,  two at-risk kids won't be a problem, not at all.  Problem is, the right supports aren't in place.  We're at a highly gentrified DCPS EotP where two at-risk kids who work a couple years behind the grade level of the others can easily eat up around a quarter of a classroom teacher's time and energy.  We've seen this happen every year in the school.   At-risk kids have a way of dragging down a group of high performers, not because anybody wants this, but because DCPS doesn't have a good system in place to help them.  You're WotP, so you don't know how this works.  What happens at our school is that high SES parents slyly form advanced tutoring groups on the side to supplement, to help ensure that our children don't fall behind you WotP'ers.[/quote]

My kids are at Janney now but went for four years to an EOTP charter school. If Janney suddenly started taking on an additional 10 percent of its student population with set-aside spots for at-risk kids, someone -- the PTA or DCPS or the school administration -- would make sure there were more resources in place and would handle it. I really don't think two at-risk kids would drag down a whole classroom of kids from extremely wealthy families [b]taught by experienced, well-paid teachers.[/b] [/quote]

You must be new to Janney.  I've had 3 kids there for a total of 20 class years.  We've had first year teachers at least 50% of the time.   My one child who graduated a year ago had a brand-new (straight out of college) teacher for 5 years straight.   Janney is great but it's teaching staff has the normal ebb and flow of any teaching staff.  
The new teachers make around $55K.  They're usually great and energetic and they last under 5 years until they realize they want to actually buy a house or they get married and then they leave DC and the cycle repeats.  
Just wanted to set this record straight.  It's not the land of only seasoned teachers.  There are some.  Yes.  But not all by any means.  [/quote]

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