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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is desperate. They are trying anything and everything except the obvious...the inclusion classrooms DON'T WORK! It's a stupid idea. Take the really at risk kids and give them the services they need so that everyone, including at risk kids can get the damned education that they deserve!

We don't need an extended school year. We need a system that works instead of this sad veneer of success over a rotten infrastructure. [/quote]

They are following the model that's been successfully done at charters with similar populations (DC Prep and Kipp, to name a couple).

Also I think you need to look up what inclusion means - it has NOTHING to do with at-risk kids. [/quote]

Not the PP but I disagree with this post.

In DCPS most of the inclusion students are indeed at-risk and they severely compromise everyone else's education. Many bring horrible, anti-sociable behaviors into the class with them.

And while the extended year model may have been done with similar populations, I'm willing to bet those students don't exhibit behaviors similar to those in DCPS. If they did, they'd be OUT!!!! I suspect there's more family support and administrative support for classroom teachers as well. They truly want to educate students and create an atmosphere in order for that to happen. All DCPS does is blame teachers for every bad behavior a student exhibits. Teachers were just told during a meeting at one school on Thursday that the reason the students come to class and cuss them out and challenge them to fight is.... :shock:  Of course, teachers in that particular room had been cussed out and invited to rumble by the students. But were the students punished? No, because according to DCPS lore, it's the teachers' fault. Forgot the fact that these were new teachers (the turnover is serious) and those same kids had been behaving that way long before these teachers arrived. I can't imagine those successful charters would allow that type of behavior, much less justify it.

Soooooooo

An extended year in a DCPS school will mean more fights, more anti-sociable behaviors and more failing and/or passing kids along who won't be able to write a paragraph once they've graduated. [/quote]

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