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Reply to "D.C. City Council Has Given Up on Improving Schools"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not true. Tried very hard to send my kid to a DC middle school. But not if they have 50% literacy and 30% math passing.[/quote] In what way did you try very hard, then?[/quote] Visited more than 5 schools, including the class tours. Talked to the parents and children. Applied for and failed at the lottery. Applied to only one private because I really wanted to make the DCPS work and luckily got in and never looked back. For the next DC made sense to go with the same school. I did everything short of moving to the burbs. But there wasn’t an offering that didn’t either disappoint academically or embraced “grit” in the ways we didn’t think would work for DC (such as the metal detectors). What floored me and made me want to support the schools was use of transparencies to learn single and double digit multiplication by rote in the late 6th grade.[/quote]
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