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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading some of the comments in the Bruce Monroe thread, [b]it puzzles me that many families are taking this route. How do you expect a school to improve if you just up and leave? [/b]What’s the point of living in the city? Your jobs or because you hope to land a spot in a Charter?

We are an EOTP family, who unlike others, plan on staying at our Title 1 school up to 5th grade. [/quote]
Why does this puzzle you?  I suppose it's nice that you think it's your job to improve a school, but many parents see it as the school's job to educate their child.  That's not exactly the same thing.  Not everyone is enrolling in a school with the intention of improving it, and if the school isn't up-to-par by K or 1st grade then parents whose number one priority is  a high-quality education are well within their rights to bail.  [/quote]
It's pretty much this.  I'm sorry, but my child is not an experiment for me to plug into a social engineering scheme.  I'm a hard-core Democrat educated in public schools, but the whole system has become a nightmarish mess.  And it's beyond my power to fix.  Sorry.[/quote]
I respect your right to send your kid wherever you feel is best, but please lay off the "social engineering" - I'm sending my kids to my EOTP DCPS school because I think that's what's best for them not for some education planning experiment.  Maybe your school is a nightmarish mess - I don't know it or you, but mine isn't and the "whole system" isn't.[/quote]
If you take out WOTP schools, which are mostly unavailable to EOTP, then DCPS is about a third or a quarter proficient (per DC CAS).  In what world is that not nightmarish?[/quote]
My EOTP school is a few points shy of 70% in math and in the 50%s in reading.  The numbers are particularly good for students who start and finish there.  That's certainly not [i]good[/i]in my book, but it is a challenge to address rather than a nightmare to run away from.
Schools with 10% profiency are more nightmarish, but not the whole system.[/quote]
What is the story with your child's EOTP middle school?  High school?[/quote]

It's complicated.  Right now, it is an education campus (boo), but I also have rights to Deal, which would feed them to Wilson (ok).  But there's the unknown of MacFarland (not sure what to think of that) and Roosevelt (yikes), which the boundary change would shift us to.[/quote]

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