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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]like others have said, it's more meetings and less planning time.  also, these LEAP meetings focus only on literacy or math -- there's no coaching on developing scientific inquiry or social/emotional skills, for example.  i gotta tell you, it's making me like DCPS even less for my own child and making me think i gotta get out before LO is old enough for school[/quote]

Agree. It's less and less about seeing kids as whole beings with social-emotional and interpersonal needs and skills to be developed..... and more and more compartmentalizing them. Some schools even departmentalize at 1st grade. So these 6 year olds. Six!!!!! see multiple teachers throughout the day for subject areas. Most DCPS start it in 3rd. So they are 8. But for an 8 year old to have one teacher for math, and two for reading (one who teaches close reading and the other guided reading)......... Talk about shuttling kids from place to place, breaking their day into distinct parts based on subject area, and not one teacher spending a whole day with a child. Save it for middle school, DC, and bring back elementary school! [/quote]

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