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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been really unsatisfied with our experience at Lee East End this year, but I'm having trouble finding other options that would be better to apply for next year.

I toured Stokes East End before the pandemic and I was appalled by the behaviors I saw - both from students and staff. Any idea how it's going these days?

Global Citizens could be an option, but I also have no idea how it is actually going and they don't seem to have any in person tours available right now.

Wildflower Riverseed won't have 2nd grade next year, which is what my eldest will need. I really wish they did because this would be the perfect solution.

I'm not interested in any of the "no excuses" type schools like KIPP, DC Scholars, Rocketship, etc.

Is there anything I'm missing? Are we just stuck?[/quote]

I don’t see why you shouldn’t just stay and try to make Lee East End better?

I mean, if everybody just runs from the school, how is it ever supposed to improve? [/quote]

Have you ever had a kid who is struggling with the behavior/culture or instruction at a school, and decided to stay? What was that like for you and your kid?

This question is easier to wrestle with in the abstract, in my experience, than when you see your kid sobbing each day before going to school because they dread it so much, or falling behind or lacking any differentiated instruction when you see MS and HS coming up fast.[/quote]

This. Children grow faster than schools. Working on your school is for the sake of younger siblings or the school community generally. It doesn't change fast enough to help one's own child in any significant way. And it's very hard for parents to put a young child in a school where they really aren't thriving. It's too high a price to pay.

There are lots of ways for schools to improve. Sometimes an exodus of many parents is what's needed to get the attention of the leadership/board/LEA/PCSB. That's the only thing that worked at Two Rivers. A school can improve by hiring better staff (replacing the Lee EE principal who just quit would be a start!), changing curriculum, improving instructional quality, and in general actually facing up to its problems. [/quote]

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