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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^if you weren't scared of integration, [/quote]

Go away race baiting troll. [/quote]

Not PP  and agree that race drives most of the IB bitching.  Be honest and about it and own it instead of the poorly coded BS about wards 5,7,8 kids in out precious neighborhood[/quote]

Here is what turned me off about Watkins:

(1) Parents reported teachers and staff yelling at students. 
(2) Parents reported teachers being uninterested in challenging students who were above grade level. 
(3) Parents reported advanced students having to do a lot of worksheets and self teaching while the teacher focused on the students who were behind. 
(4) The test scores are not good. [/quote]

Race doesn't drive most of the IB "bitching," SES does, coupled with the problem of DCPS never having adopted a policy of challenging ES or MS students who can work above grade level, or funded initiatives to ensure that they can. MD and VA passed laws according GT students rights in the 80s while DC hasn't. The result is that unless a principal is motivated to work with high SES parents to raise money for aides and pullout groups to enable classroom teachers to help challenge kids who can work above grade level, it doesn't happen consistently. A school only gets the aides after having built a critical mass of affluent parents willing and able to raise the dough to pay for them, as in the JKLM schools, Brent and Maury. It's a really bad system that shortchanges kids who work above grade level city-wide.  At the MS level, formal above grade level offerings are still hard to find in DCPS (e.g. 7th grade algebra at Deal and Hardy).

We've been at Brent for a number of years after moving IB from the Cluster catchment area partly to avoid Watkins, mostly for the reasons outlined above (although the Watkins test scores are very good for white kids).

To my knowledge, most of the AA students in my children's cohorts in the lower grades are neighborhood kids with professional parents, or kids living in the mixed-income Ellen Wilson townhouses, not kids coming in from other wards. Brent has a diversity working group that does a decent job promoting good race relations.  [/quote]

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