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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spent 4 years at Thomson.  Question is where to start.  It taught me that school reform is way more complicated than Rhee & company want to believe.  Teachers were in constant tredmill that is exhausting, don't assume your child will get supports because they know you will provide them & their are a ton kids that need help.  DC has no clue how to deal with esl kids so they face constant regression.  Forget PTA's about 5 people will carry it and become increasing bitter.  Your principal & teaching staff will turnover all the time.  Your kid will have a program that is likely to be a full grade level below what they are teaching in other parts of the city.  Putting your kid into a title one school is a not just being there for other poor kids.  There is a reason so many of us have fled.[/quote]

This sums up at the end of the day why I left. We were enrolled in our IB school (title I) my child was to be in PS-3 and as I was dropping off the paperwork the principal asked me if I would be president of the PTA. 
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I'm sure this is a little extreme and there is Title I and Title I, but what you say highlights something else about what you may have going for yourself at a Title I school. You may actually have a true say. This isn't something all parents are looking for and not what everyone is cut out to do but if you are, know a thing or two, and have an ability to communicate and deliberate with others, a Title I is a likelier place to have a say than your typical upper NW school.[/quote]

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