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[quote=Anonymous]What makes a school good? Not all NW schools (obviously some are good because of staff) However coming from the perspective of a DCPS teacher there’s a few things that sets 5 star NW schools up for success.

1. Greater parental involvement, I’ve worked at title 1 and not. And lemme tell you, the parental involvement vastly differs. As well as their ability to fundraise, which in turn gives the school itself an advantage for resources.
More accountability, their children will be more likely to do their HW and parents will be more likely to advocate for them.

2. 99% of non title 1 schools do not have self-contained special education programs which can mean higher seeming scores for the school over all. The schools who do have self contained are ‘high functioning’ which is not a term I’d ever use but the term the program uses. It only accepts students with a certain IQ.

3. You may not want to hear this but way less at risk students. When you have students who have their basic needs met they are way easier to teach. It’s much harder to focus on math when you are not homeless or going through some kind of trauma.
Which in turn can mean less challenging behavior. There are way less kids cursing you out, stabbing you with a pencil, etc.

Janey is not a magical school. I work in a NE school and we are a 4 star school, we have already won countless awards for closing the gap, etc. Our at risk percentage is over 70%.
So I feel your complaint is not a solution to the real issue. Most of the time it is because of the 3 categories I listed above. 
Can’t tell you how many parents walk in high, drunk, on drugs, or wearing almost nothing. That says a lot about what kind of environment some of the students have to deal with.

If you want better schools we also need a better community. Which means more parents in those communities have to be involved. And DCPS needs to fund those schools. DC needs to help those communities instead of helping gentrification.

As a parent, I get it. My child doesn’t go to the school I work at not because the school isn’t great, it absolutely is. But the sheer amount of students who lash out because of their circumstances can be too much. 
My school faces greater inequity. DCPS didn’t even finish the renovations all the way (literally we have a whole wing boarded up as we become over capacity) while Maury got a whole new building. Says a lot.[/quote]

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