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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP: Mass over crowding at Deal. Class sizes incredibly large. Lack of proper disciplinary action from DCPS and school admin when teachers try to implement consequences. Lack of true enrichment, more of the “honors for all” culture or allowing everyone at least one -two enriching opportunities per quarter—never mind that some kids may or may not be ready for that. Not enough tracking at Deal. [b]DCPS as a whole is dysfunctional[/b] and sometimes the conflicting messages from the top make it hard for administration to communicate with the parent community effectively. People want diversity but realistically if they could they would choose the kind of diversity at Deal that they had in mind—-I.e. often afraid of the inner city poor kids or those who are economically disadvantaged [nevermind that some of these kids are smart and are running away from bad neighborhood schools too][/quote]

I'm not saying I don't believe you, but there are many posts on these forums complaining about APS being dysfunctional, MCPS being dysfunctional, ACPS being dysfunctional.....where is one to go?  [/quote]

Let’s be honest, here’s why DCPS lies at the bottom:

-Michelle Rhee (3 years experience as a TeachforAmerica teacher and then bam! Chancellor role)
-Kaya Henderson working with local DC politically connected parents to skirt the lottery system and pulling her staffer’s children’s lottery number because the law was written to allow her that flexibility. 
- Antwan Wilson new chancellor (for less than 10 months), wrote a new law undoing/forbidding the new chancellor from cherry picking school lottery numbers. Proceeded to break said law that he wrote for his own child. 
-DCPS honors for all at the top schools (Wilson, Deal, etc.) because of the local mayor 
-We have no idea if the DC curriculum is effective or not because no reputable third party has actually reviewed the curriculum for DCPS to give feedback. 
-School lottery system is a circus and causes all kinds of anxieties at each level/round (preschool, end of elementary, middle school, and high school) 
-A third of DC students earned diplomas without doing the work. The DCPS scandal of graduating students city wide and awarding diplomas when many students had mass high absenteeism rates and is currently under FBI investigation. 
-I.M.P.A.C.T.     Forcing good teachers out of DC under the guise of performance evaluations of student based performance. Negelecting the data that DC has some of the highest impoverished students in the country. When children are homeless, malnourished, experience violence, lack proper parenting, etc. it makes it harder for those children to be at grade level and then to evaluate teachers based on factors outside of their control is nefarious. 
—Countless articles of the DCPS testing score scandal. A USA Today investigation showed a huge amount of wrong-to-right answer sheet erasures at more than half of D.C. schools; their inquiry didn't include charter schools. NOTE: this was during the same time as the Atlanta Public School scandals. It’s interesting that no charter schools got swept up in the mix. 
—-The District claimed a dramatic decline in suspensions, but a Washington Post investigation last summer or the summer before that, showed that many city high schools were suspending students off the books, kicking students out without documentation — and in some cases even marking them present.

Alas, this is only what we know about, how much more have we yet to discover that has been swept under the rug?[/quote]

Op here.  Wow, the level of dysfunction puts things in perspective.  Am I crazy for considering DCPS when APS is a viable option (and makes more sense commute-wise)?[/quote]

Yes. Arlington schools are better  than DC, MoCo. I’d move there if I could.[/quote]

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