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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading some of the comments in the Bruce Monroe thread, [b]it puzzles me that many families are taking this route. How do you expect a school to improve if you just up and leave? [/b]What’s the point of living in the city? Your jobs or because you hope to land a spot in a Charter?

We are an EOTP family, who unlike others, plan on staying at our Title 1 school up to 5th grade. [/quote]
Why does this puzzle you?  I suppose it's nice that you think it's your job to improve a school, but many parents see it as the school's job to educate their child.  That's not exactly the same thing.  Not everyone is enrolling in a school with the intention of improving it, and if the school isn't up-to-par by K or 1st grade then parents whose number one priority is  a high-quality education are well within their rights to bail.  [/quote]
It's pretty much this.  I'm sorry, but my child is not an experiment for me to plug into a social engineering scheme.  I'm a hard-core Democrat educated in public schools, but the whole system has become a nightmarish mess.  And it's beyond my power to fix.  Sorry.[/quote]
I respect your right to send your kid wherever you feel is best, but please lay off the "social engineering" - I'm sending my kids to my EOTP DCPS school because I think that's what's best for them not for some education planning experiment.  Maybe your school is a nightmarish mess - I don't know it or you, but mine isn't and the "whole system" isn't.[/quote]
If you take out WOTP schools, which are mostly unavailable to EOTP, then DCPS is about a third or a quarter proficient (per DC CAS).  In what world is that not nightmarish?[/quote]
My EOTP school is a few points shy of 70% in math and in the 50%s in reading.  The numbers are particularly good for students who start and finish there.  That's certainly not [i]good[/i]in my book, but it is a challenge to address rather than a nightmare to run away from.
Schools with 10% profiency are more nightmarish, but not the whole system.[/quote]
What is the story with your child's EOTP middle school?  High school?[/quote]

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