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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what bothers/worries me is not the demographics pushing the schools this way and that, it's more things like the Amiplify science curriculum being iniciiiorrect, or Walls students staying tioooiiohat they aren't learning in class, or kids not readingkji real books in English.

In other words, the curriculum and the teaching.

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Things like Amplify are chosen and required by someone at Central.  [/quote]

I teach in DCPS and I assure you that DCPS curricular materials are just awful. To the extent that teachers rely on them, it diminishes student learning.

And administrators at my school never embrace rigorous and challenging teaching. Not all teachers are great, but serious, impactful, creative teachers are almost never encouraged and supported. Administrators truly don’t care about education. What they care about is control (of students and teachers) and assembling positive metrics (which are almost always so manipulated that they’re practically or entirely useless). They never model curiosity, imagination, creativity, or engagement with learning. This is a broad generalization, but I’ve found it true for 90-95% of administrators I’ve encountered.[/quote]

Yes, thank you, this is what I was talking about and why I'm concerned. I was all about DCPS in elementary, but as my kids aged into middle school I feel really disheartened by the lack of rigorous and challenging teaching. We moved to a charter. This validating to hear.

So many amazing teachers in the system, and kids with so much potential. I wish they were better supported by the administrators at DCPS.[/quote]

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