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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This school is under extremely toxic management. Look at the teacher turnover rate. Do NOT send your child there, they provide FAPE even less than a typical DCPS school.[/quote]

Are current parents not concerned? Or does it not matter?[/quote]

Like most things involving DC schools it isn't that simple. Parents start at TR because they do ECE well and because it is a better option than otherwise available. No one is choosing TR over Brent or Maurey. They are unlikely to choose it over LT. TR is great in ECE because the school skews (more so in before times) high SES. They focus on kindness and other laudable goals. Kids come from households that read to them and supplementation in ECE is really just living a privileged life. Then in 2nd or so kids start leaving. Some for privates, some get lucky in the lottery and move on to LT and other schools. The culture gets lost right when teaching and learning gets real. TR has always struggled with how to balance "equity" (whatever the F that means) with book learning. That was true before COVID and before the current group think. Remember, those parents were there because their were no better options. That doesn't change in 2nd or 3rd or even fourth. But the bar for how "better" or even good TR is starts to drop dramatically. It goes from a good option, to a barely acceptable one, to "OMG we need to move if we don't get lucky in 5th grade lottery!" 5th grade is when everyone runs for the doors (Latin, BASIS, Latin 2, privates) because TR MS isn't a good option. Has never been a good option even in the before times.[/quote]

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