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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh. give it time.  Chances are they excitement over the charter school will wane as well.  My experience has been that some parents get over-enthusiastic about a school as a way to hide their concern that the school is actually not good enough, but in the end no school winds up to be good enough for their precious geniuses.  I know parents who have already switched their kids 3 times by second grade.

--Signed, a parent at the "worst" Ward 3 school[/quote]

well you live in a ward 3 bubble. Some of us have to make do with our IB east of the park and its nothing about "precious genius"--but more that by third grade, less 20% of the kids are even at grade level and the kids who are at grade level are sitting around doing mindless worksheets or tutoring other kids.    Im sorry, but any complaint or snark from a Ward 3 parent is beyond obnoxious.[/quote]

Agree with this.

The "worst" Ward 3 school?  Ha!  At my IB school only 20% of the kids are reading at 4th grade.  It's 99% FARMS.  Last year they shut down the school one day because there was a fight between the parents at drop off and one parent threatened to stab another.

I think your WOTP understanding of DCPS is basically the same as someone who lives in Maryland.[/quote]

I don't think you people understand sarcasm.  The reason I used quotation marks around worst is because it is actually a great school, but because the scores are slightly lower than neighboring schools (and *gasp* the majority of kids are non-white) we have a lot of people who switch schools at the first opportunity, after saying how excited they were about coming to our school.  I'm basically just telling the OP that it happens here too because there are some people who are just never happy with their kids' school.  For pete's sake people, it's the first day of school, chill out.[/quote]

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