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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not surprised. I have been an educator for over 10 years and this is my second year in dc public schools. The expectations at my school for the teachers are so low so I’m not sure how we can have high expectations for the students. [/quote]

This.  We have been consistently appalled by the low standard that DCPS teachers set for themselves for the 10 years that our kids have been in the system.  You see this in EVERY area -- the robocalls saying that kids missed class when they haven't (because teachers haven't bothered to take attendance correctly), the teachers who don't bother to post work to the online grading system until after the end of the advisory (so that there is no possible way that kids could know how they are doing in class and course correct), the teacher who in elementary school told us that he "didn't have time" to grade submitted work, the teachers who are out once a week for an entire year (yes, I know people have health issues and challenges, but you can't tell me that more than one of my kid's teachers are having issues that cause weekly absences EVERY DAMN YEAR).

The attendance scandal is part and parcel of this issue -- administration and teachers couldn't be bothered to enforce existing policies for years, so suddenly when the media gets the story they decide to enforce a policy they previously haven't and screw a bunch of seniors.  And yes, people can say that kids should know that absences count, but those people have never sat through general ed classes at DCPS high schools.  If expectations are set over a period of years by the adults, than it's reasonable to expect kids to conform to those expectations.

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