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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People think middle school and high school in DCPS are a disaster.  And, they are.  But what they don't realize is that it all started with elementary, but nobody was paying attention.  It all cascades from there.

I think the whole system needs to be shored up.  Sure, it would be great to have more middle schools and high schools that could replicate what's going on in some of the better ones.  But that's dealing with the symptoms.

Ideally, officials and policymakers need to go back and look at what's going on - it's too much of a critical mass of kids who didn't get adequate foundational skills, kids who had a rough upbringing and as such may have behavioral problems, and so on.  And those problems get more segregated and concentrated going from elementary to middle school, and even more so from middle school into high school - as those who can flee the middle and high schools, leaving the problems behind.

This city needs to wrap its head around how to break this cycle, with very early interventions, even at the pre-K level, robustly working on instilling strong foundational academic skills together with identifying and deprogramming the many counterproductive cultural issues coming from multi-generational poverty and teaching these kids what "normal" is in today's society, and instilling values, instilling a sense of curiosity and ambition, and a desire to break that cycle and become functional, successful, and hopefully prosperous members of modern society.[/quote]

+1. PS-3 and PK-4 are a good start to getting poor kids into the system early. However, if I was in charge of DCPS I would vastly reduce class size in the early elementary years in the District's poorest schools. With just 8 to 10 students per class, a teacher could provide greater attention to both the socio-emotional and academic needs of his/her students. [/quote]

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