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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From a parent perspective, the teacher training program is amazing. There are two teachers in nearly every classroom - in most cases, that includes an experienced master teacher and a learning resident teacher - and it's so valuable for kids to have both and to be able to see their teachers learn from each other and complement each other and work as a team. (PK3 and PK4 have a paraprofessional in each classroom in addition to the two teacher.)

I think the teaching and commitment to teacher excellence is what sets ITS apart - as a prospective parent, it wasn't something that was so much on my radar. But as someone who's been at the school for a number of years, it is the thing that I most value.

(And YES, an at-risk preference would be great and if that becomes an option in the lottery, I hope the school opts in.)[/quote]

It's just annoying, as a Langley parent.  We have a high poverty population and many live in Edgewood and would have had the right to attend school in the Inspired Teaching building if it were still Shaed. All his social justice stuff is BS if you donot actually serve the kids.  Go om raising your hundreds of thousands of dollars for an already affluent school and dom't mind that your neighbors' school has all these challenges.[/quote]

I hear you. I agree. The school landscape in DC is really complicated and there are many things that happened years ago - before any of our kids were born - that have implications for where we are now. We are all trying to make the best decisions we can in a system that is changing around us. One thing that ITS is doing is training teachers who then bring the Center for Inspired Teaching's practices and pedagogy to schools - public and charter - across DC. I think this is valuable.[b] From everything I know, the school would like to serve a more economically diverse group of students. [/b]There is a lot about the lottery that makes this hard. I hope an at-risk preference is implemented.[/quote]

Or maybe they want you to think that, but don't actually do the recruiting that would cause those kids to apply.  That way ITS parents can feel good about "social justice" but have a yuppie school culture and good test scores too.[/quote]

...Or maybe 15% At-Risk, and 25% Disadvantaged students allows the school to take care of those kids and the better-off kids best. Maybe there is a threshold of At-Risk and disadvantaged students beyond which the  better-off families feel like their own kids are not properly served and flee, leading to a zero dollar PTA situation.[/quote]

But that has consequences for the other schools who have to take everyone regardless of what works "best" for those who are admitted.  Charter school navel gazing with no regard for the system as a whole. [/quote]

Bring back your "the other schools who have to take everyone regardless of what works "best" " argument when every single DCPS school offers guaranteed PK3 to their in-bound children. Until then, charters are working very hard to create economically diverse schools in which everyone is thriving.[/quote]

Exactly.  The kids who don't get kicked out may be thriving, but what about the ones you dump on neighborhood schools?  Thriving too?  Oh we just can't meet their needs, too bad so sad.  Well neighborhood schools have no choice but to serve them.  Save your social justice back-patting , ITS.  We all know it's a facade.[/quote]

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