Reply to Do you stay friends with the families that bail for the suburbs

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Do you stay friends with the families that bail for the suburbs "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our oldest is starting 5th grade and lost 2 of his close friends this summer out of his class as their parents made the jump to “better school systems”. Others are talking about about doing the same next year. We are committed to sticking it out and bringing about the change the other families feel didn’t come fast enough on the Hill but I can’t help but feel that they are abandoning the community and us to the point they are part of the problem with the middle schools. We went to one of their BBQs up in Bethesda last week and had to sit there while they raved about how much better it was and others changed the conversation when we told that we were stying. I couldn’t help but feel every brag was a shot at us.

Considering that kids drift away, I just want to cut the ties and focus on the families that share our values but how do you explain that to kids who simply don’t grasp the bigger issues?[/quote]

You lost me when with your holier than thou "we are committed" good luck to you.  The recent articles in the post about kids just playing cards all days because there were so many subs at stuart hobson? thats terrible parenting if you have a choice and put up with that. I lived on the hill in the 90s. You are nothing special OP. Every parent things their cohort will be the one to flip the school. And lets be real thats exactly what you want or need to happen. Once SH and EH are all IB with cap hill kids they will be the best in the City.  those parents don't care about you and aren't bragging but if they are in Bethesda, then hell yes the middle school options are 1,000 times better. Especially for advanced kids.  In DC the problem is we compare one bad school to another and think if 20% of kids get 4s on PARCCS thats awesome cause in IB kids only got %5. this is not normal.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics