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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the start of the school year and I'm overjoyed at sending my kids to their neighborhood school after a terrible pandemic year and a half. If you are considering putting your kids into EL Haynes Elementary I would tell you not to do it. The school really dropped the ball during the pandemic and has an ineffectual parent association that is essentially a public relations tool for the school. Parents have zero input and were left powerless during the pandemic. Parent teacher conferences disappeared. Teachers bailed. It was a disaster. During the early days of the pandemic, during school hours, I found my kid's teacher at the grocery store buying wine.

If you are looking for a school with a strong sense of community, I would not send my child to Haynes.

I wish more schools were judged not just on teacher abilities (very important) but also how involved are the parents, and how well the school encourages and promotes accountability. So many charter schools have zero accountability. 
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Not sure why you are throwing the entire Charter Sector in on this. It's not really about accountability--as if DCPS central office had enough accountability to keep things going last year in most schools.  Seems to me it's more about EL Haynes [i]in particular.[/i].

The DC Charter Board actually has very stringent oversite and accountability metrics. I've been impressed.  You can look up each and every charter schools and the details of their oversight, reopening plans etc, yearly evaluations, etc.  here:

[b]https://dcpcsb.org/school-profiles[/b]
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A more direct link is https://osse.dc.gov/page/2021-22-lea-continuous-education-plans[/quote]

These are worthless. Check out the SSMA thread for what a charter is doing in practice. Without the Mayor saying no, charters will do whatever they want... and that means closures, closures, closures. If SSMA parents don't stamp this out now, they will have no school all year.[/quote]

Yep. They may have metrics, but in practice there are no consequences when charters underperform and fail to meet their objectives. [/quote]

Sure---no consequences. Here are a list of Charters closed by the Charter Board 2012-2020. 26 LEAs or campuses closed due to Charter Board oversight.

https://dcpcsb.org/charter-school-growth-and-closures[/quote]

Mhmm. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/998177.page[/quote]

That's insane. Seems to be a poor job of communication and administration [i]at this particular charter school[/i].  I bet it comes up next time they are reviewed by the charter board.[/quote]

+1 DCUM wants us to think that all charters are the same, but they are not. That is why some are more popular than others.[/quote]

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