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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Ugh if all the people inbound for Watkins actually went there the problems would fix themselves

Classic firstmover problem

The fact that it took Brent 10 years to finally get all inbound for kindergarten shows what the issue is.  Upper SES DCUM being afraid of the poors/racisim[/quote]

Let's ride with the accusation:  Upper SES DCUMs are indeed afraid of "poors" in their kids' schools.  Perhaps consider why they're afraid.  They logically fear that a bunch of poor kids who are behind academically, and prone to behavioral problems, in a classroom will inhibit their children's learning and overall educational experience.

Solution: put many more instructors and counselors in school buildings, pile on targeted interventions like high-quality free after-care programs for poor kids offering academic tutoring, go with smaller class sizes, and offer structured pullouts for advanced kids.  Is DCPS doing much of this?  No.  In DCPS, PTAs must knock themselves out to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide the inputs needed to manage parent fears, particularly in the form of teachers aides.

As things stand, only by building a critical mass of hundreds of high SES parents in a school community can high SES parent fears be managed in DCPS.

My kids began school at an ordinary government school in London with double the % of poor minority kids than at our Hill DCPS.  In London, standards were higher than in DCPS, and academic outputs more impressive, although class sizes were larger.  In the UK, if kids work behind grade level, they're pulled out of regular classrooms for much of the school day and tutored intensively in small groups until they can (if they ever can).  They aren't left in regular classrooms to pull down standards for high-performing peers as in the US.

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