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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t help but feel that the people who claim to love Stevens probably work there. It’s hard to genuinely love a public school—especially if your child is in the afterschool program. Stevens is deeply flawed for one main reason: the teachers don’t seem to care about students’ academic success, classroom performance, or even basic parent and child satisfaction. Since the school isn't ranked and around 55% of students only stay for a year, there seems to be little incentive for improvement. Plus, there are always  families desperate for free childcare, so no matter how bad Stevens gets, there will always be children enrolled.[/quote]

What academic success do you expect in pre-k? You should probably do the research, the more academics in early years (birth-5) the worse the results later. Play based learning is the best, your child's ‘academic performance’ should be prioritized in older grades.

It’s weird you have such a disdain for public schooling. Private and homeschooling is available.[/quote]

I’m talking about the basic developmental milestones that children need to reach at ages 3 and 4 in order to be able to read, write, and do math in kindergarten and beyond. While there are some strong elementary schools in the DCPS system, Stevens is not one of them. It functions more like a free daycare than a school, with no clear standards for learning—or even for meaningful play. In some ways, it’s understandable—because the poor preparation for kindergarten isn’t Stevens’ immediate problem. It becomes the problem of the next school that their graduates end up attending.[/quote]

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