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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you will come to understand.  After so many years trying to improve Hill elementary schools, many parents are just burnt out and disillusioned when it is time for middle school.  The schools have a lot of high-needs kids, yes, but also DCPS itself is profoundly corrupt, secretive, hostile, and generally f*cked-up in its culture at the central office and in the schools.  It's not just the kids or the demographics.  This thread is a great example: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/210/801530.page

Add to that low academic performance, problematic behaviors, and the concern of parents about getting into selective high schools and colleges and of their children being happy and enjoying school and being engaged and challenged, and it's a lot.  DCPS will tell you that teachers can differentiate instruction for students of many levels, but there are kids in high school classes working at the elementary level and frankly nobody believes that much differentiation can be done effectively.  The test scores at Eastern are alarmingly low and it's very very hard to believe the teachers and the instruction are solid when so few kids are even scoring on grade level.

Is progress possible?  Sure.  Stuart-Hobson is a great example of a school people were once unwilling to attend but now many families choose it.  But it took about 20 years of effort to get there.  Don't think this stuff is easy, it's not, and DCPS is often its own worst enemy. [/quote]

I agree with this post.  I am worn out and don’t trust DCPS anymore [/quote]

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