Reply to Jewish students in DCPS

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Jewish students in DCPS"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those raising Jewish families, how has your experience been in DC public schools with regard to finding community and other families, taking religious holidays off, and encountering any anti-senitisim?

Are there any schools that tend to have larger than average populations of Jewish students in the traditional public school system?[/quote]

Look at the Wilson feeders and Capitol Hill elementary schools

DCPS gives excused absences for all those who do not attend schools for religious holidays, no matter the religion.

[/quote]

Mileage may vary in how different school administrations are aware of and act according to policy.  We've had near consistent problems with one Cap Hill school.  No amount of advance notice to school seems to get through attendance admin's head, emails, references to DC policy, explanation of Jewish holidays (ie starts at sundown and calendar often only reflects the evening the holiday onset and not the actual day), etc.   We've had to escalate to principal when erroneously marked with unexcused absences.  It's frustrating.  Not a problem at all at our other Hill school.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics