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Reply to "Extended year for 11 schools. Is this a pilot for the rest of the schools?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why are they only doing it for low performing schools? Cost, for one thing. But if it is best educationally why aren't parents of high performing students demanding it? Tradition?[/quote] The parents of the truly top kids know that balance is the key to life success, and they want their kids to be enriched during the summer in alternate formats they are 100% shut down my mandatory butt-in-seat classroom instruction in the summer. Residential academic camps, foreign travel, service learning, national park camping, theater camp, youth orchestra day-long intensives, geocaching, etc etc. That said, the true percentage of actual elite parents in DC with kids in DCPS vs private isn't large. The cohort of double-income, middle/slightly upper middle class parents who would be grateful to save the money on camp-childcare is much larger. [/quote]
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