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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying the story about the pack of OOB kids with behavioral issues who rocked in just for 5th at your DCPS Hill ES (come on, code for Black and poor).

Did you stay for 5th at Maury, Brent, SWS or Ludlow?  Let me guess, no, you were off to BASIS or Latin Cooper.  We stayed, this past school year.

The OOB kids weren't all that numerous and they were well-behaved almost to a kid. Some had come because they'd experienced bullying or lousy DCPS upper grades academics and discipline elsewhere.   Others turned up in 5th because they're from military families who move a lot.  Welcome, OOB 5th grade kids and their families.  You enhanced our experience.  [/quote]

+1. Similar experience for us. Not LOL hilarious or holier than thou either. Reasonable and open-minded.

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My kids are at one of the named schools and we take a hefty dose of new 5th graders (about 25-30% of the class). I would say that they are slightly behind academically upon entry, but otherwise pretty much indistinguishable. Many of them catch up/move past average by the end of the year.

FWIW I heard that a different one of these school’s 5th grade had a really tough time this year and I believe both grade level teachers are leaving as a result (one definitely is, only heard about the other via rumors). I’m sure it’s the school PP is talking about.[/quote]

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