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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours is terrible - you want all the reasons why???[/quote]

sure, but name it. Without a school's name, it doesn't help anyone. How would someone taking a tour know what to look for?

Are people afraid that the administration or their friends at the school will know who is posting?[/quote]

Oh, I'm not afraid to name it. Tyler.  Horrid.  Two years wasted.  [/quote]

What were all the reasons why?[/quote]

Oh my lord, I'm not sure I have time to detail everything, but here goes.

-Shame based discipline
-Recess constantly taken away as punishment despite DCPS policy expressly forbidding that
-physical violence between children as young as 1st grade very common
-only ONE social worker for the entire building; she spends entire days breaking up fights. Good luck if your kid has a 504/IEP and needs her services. (not blaming her in particular; there should be two SWs)
-there are hardly ANY children in spanish immersion with IEPs or behavior problems.  They routinely (and illegally) refuse to provide services within Spanish and bounce kids into the regular program. It's the haves vs the have nots, and it's shameful.  
-very inconsistent ability among teachers; some are really shining stars but many are dismal.

I could go on and on, but more detail will out me too easily.  
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I'm so sorry. I wrote basically the same post about Tyler a year and a half ago. I had added that:

-Children constantly wandered the building with absolutely no supervision when they were supposed to be in class. 
- The school security officer was constantly called into classrooms to discipline children (very young children) because the teachers weren't managing the class.
- I saw entire classes with their heads down on cafeteria tables being punished instead of going to recess.

I had hoped it had gotten better since I then.[/quote]

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