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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know of several CH teachers currently sending their kids to SH. This gives me hope for when my younger kids are ready for middle school. [/quote]

We're IB for SH and I thought the same way for a few years. Then my kids got into the upper ES grades at their Hill DCPS post Covid and I took a hard look at SH. We were turned off by several problems that didn't look like they'd be going away.

*Increasing but still weak IB buy-in with, with steady buy-in from Wards 5, 7 and 8.   
*Untracked science and social studies classes where most students work behind grade level. No plans to change that. 
*The fact that we didn't see a single student, teacher or admin of East Asian descent in the building. Our families are from Korea.

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I have a K child and I'm trying to understand the negativity association with children behind grade level? Where are kids behind supposed to go to learn? [/quote]

When your K child is in 6th grade and in a class where many students are at a 3rd grade level, then it can be difficult for the teacher to spend a lot of time teaching at a 6th grade level.[/quote]

I think what the PP means is that... this is a public school. They are tasked with teaching kids, all of the kids who walk through their doors, and meeting them whereever they are. Where are those kids supposed to go to learn? Are they supposed to be removed from the school so that more advanced kids can learn?[/quote]

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