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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will explain for the K parent.  This is a common pattern:  You love your elementary school.  But then you get to 3rd or 4th grade and your child tests on or above grade level at the start of the year, already knows almost everything that is taught that year, and has iReady scores and things like that which over course of the year go up zero.  You care immensely about the kids who are behind.  But you are facing down the 5th grade lottery and you do not know what to do vis a vis your child and middle school.  Not every relatively high-performing child is all that especially self-motivated or hard working.  [/quote]

This. And you also get burnt out from doing so much PTA stuff, struggling for years to help a beloved elementary school function adequately! And how hard it is to make any significant change. And you develop an appreciation for the challenges facing DC's public middle schools, which are so deep and significant, it's overwhelming. I still think change is possible-- I think change is happening now, just really really slowly. But people sometimes just get to a point where they can't anymore. The stakes for K are pretty low. They get higher.[/quote]

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