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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter vs public (since in DC all charters are also public) and even DC public charter vs DCPS aren't helpful comparisons because the experiences are so uneven. All DCPS schools aren't equal and neither are all public charter schools.

Do you have a question or are you sharing experience you think would be helpful to others? I wonder how you know about the academic experience at all of the Ward 4 and 5 charter schools to be able to compare to what your friends say about Shepherd and Barnard. Plenty of DCPS schools offer unreliable experiences, it just sounds like you happen to live in a neighborhood where you would have been happy with the local DCPS ES and are now wondering why you went with another option. [/quote]

DCPS schools can differ on the margins (like project based stuff) but the curriculum is largely uniform across all the elementary schools. [/quote]

There are elementary schools where half the kids are getting 1s on the PARCC. Don't teachers to some extent modify what they're teaching to meet students where they are, regardless of what the curriculum says? [/quote]

As a parent at a DCPS school where some kids are getting 1s but mine got 5s, the teachers rely heavily on small groups and they push each group as far as they are able to. A minority of time is spent on common instruction.[/quote]

No they don’t. This is the great lie parents tell themselves. Differentiation does not actually work. It shortchanges all of the kids. [/quote]

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