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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the DCI discipline issues affect well behaved students? I mean this question in all seriousness. Is DCI not removing a misbehaving child from a classroom? Or are there behaviors outside of the classroom (hallway, school yard, bullying, etc)?[/quote]

I don't think DCI has "discipline issues" as much as it has inexperienced teachers who lack strong classroom management skills. Toss in 25 middle schoolers ... and things can get chaotic. There are NO middle schools without rowdy behavior in halls, or bullying.

FWIW DCI, like most charters, has far more staff turnover than a traditional public school. There are pluses and minuses to each.

Personally, I'd choose BCC if moving is an option.

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Classroom teachers can have the strongest discipline but if there are SJW and policies that do not hold children and their parents accountable it becomes an environment in which chaos reins. I’ve worked in DC charters, DCPS and now MCPS. Hands down MCPS has been the better environment for learning. Discipline is not perfect but I don’t have children cursing me out, throwing chairs, bringing knives to school and threatening to stab another student, refusing to do classwork, and admin in DCPS who were trying to keep suspension rates down. Anyone remember that big WashPo story about how DCPS principals weren’t formally suspending students with actual paperwork? DCPS principals were gaming the system in order to keep suspension rates down  by telling children and their parents that they were suspended but did not formally file paperwork because it didn’t fit within the Mayor’s framework of black/brown or poor children not being suspended. [/quote]

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