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O-A is not the neighborhood school of many special ed students; in fact they ended up there precisely because the previous principal and DCPS, with little justification and inadequate planning and resources, had them transferred/ enrolled away from their neighborhood schools.

I'm not sure if DCPS is now evaluating accommodating the kids with most severe needs in their neighborhood schools or, as a previous PP noted, moving them to a new one. In any case, there is still a large group of special ed kids happily integrated with the rest. Oyster has 10% special ed kids; Janney only 6% and Eaton 7%.[/quote]I really don't get why an overcrowded school would add students to the roster who won't benefit from the program at that school. I knew of a few OA parents who shifted to other schools, often Eaton, when their child couldn't master the dual language, and these weren't special ed students. What is the rationale to send a child across town to a language specialty school when the child can't and likely will never communicate in the target languages?
I remember a big outcry when Yu Ying decided some kids would follow a monolingual track, to ensure mastery of  English basics, people asking what was the point of Yu Ying for those kids....[/quote]

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