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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's less crazy.  People are getting used to the new system and have last year's data to draw on, so we don't feel as much like we're flying blind.  A few new schools/classrooms opened last year and this year, and a few new neighborhood schools became viable EOTP.  So I think things are a little better.[/quote]

Curious, what do you think the few new viable EOTP schools are since last year?  [/quote]

NP, I'd phrase it a little differently.  It seems that a number of EOTP schools have become more popular / viable for more years.

Schools like Seaton, Garrison, Powell, West, even some more talk of Barnard, Bruce-Monroe, and probably some others I'm not remembering.[/quote]

NP, I think it's both-- Some such as Langley are now viable for the first time, others such as Bruce-Monroe, Miner, and Seaton are becoming viable for more years.  Stuart-Hobson is making progress and that will flow down to its feeders as well.  [/quote]

Viable for DCUM / higher-SES residents, you mean. [/quote]

Viable for PreK (free daycare) you mean.  Once parents begin to expect education these schools will all disappoint.  Just look at their scores.  It's nice to have your 3 y.o. play with everyone, but it's downright alarming when your 3rd grader is surrounded by children who can't read at grade level.  Meanwhile, other children who live down the street are literate in two languages and performing well in math and science.  It's not a situation you can bear for very long.[/quote]

We'll see. At our EOTP school, many parents had their kids in NAEYC accredited preschools prior to moving to our school for prek3. (This is especially prevalent for fall birthdays). The consensus is that the EOTP "free daycare" is superior. The DCPS teachers are credentialed, with years of experience. All have bachelor's degrees, and some have Masters. I am not aware of any private preschool that can afford the salaries that would attract candidates of this caliber.  Even the much worshipped NCRC only requires a Bachelor's degree.

If the teaching continues to be excellent, we will stay.[/quote]

I live EoTP and will probably end up in our IB. But like every other high SES family and white family, will leave by 1st grade at the absolute latest.  The test scores are abyssmal and the achievement gap is NOT closing.   Its not that I think my PSer is gifted but just being at grade level in an EoTP school puts you way ahead of your classmates. I just think that kind of learning environment would be a waste of time for kids who are able and willing to do the work and be challenged. [/quote]

My white, high SES kindergartener attends our IB EOTP school. She is not the most advanced kid in her class - that honor goes to a low SES black boy. Based on the assessment scores we saw at APTT, I would say that the vast majority of the class is at grade level in reading and math, with a handful of kids above average and a handful of kids below average. More above than below, actually. Have you been at such meetings for your IB school, or are you simply looking at PARCC scores and saying no, based on the first year of testing data administered to children 3rd grade and above?

It IS that you think that your 3-year-old is gifted. Go ahead and own that. You think that your high SES white kid is smarter than the low SES brown kids s/he would be in class with. You also assume that your child is "willing to do the work" which may or may not be true. The two most disruptive kids I know are high SES white children who seem to think that rules don't apply to them. When they get in trouble, their high SES white parents manage to spin the incident so that anyone but their child is at fault.

With this attitude, please just move now. I understand the PP's "If... Then..." statement, but you, going into a school with the attitude that it's not good enough for your child, that it's filled with children who are not motivated and not willing to work,  will not be an asset to the school. Do the school a favor and spare them the sanctimony.[/quote]

You lost me at "black boy"[/quote]
Huh? Are we saying "male-identified cisgender person of color"? Is everyone so sensitive now that we can't even pretend black boys exist? Or was this a joke?[/quote]

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