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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd move on, PP, since it's just not going to get better the higher up you go.  The low SES kids just have too many needs.   DCPS teachers come under little pressure to differentiate effectively.  As long as your kid is on track to pass the PARCC with a 4 in 3rd grade, he or she isn't worth pushing in this system of modest ambitions.

You generally have to buy or rent in-boundary for a school that's majority high SES, or lottery into one, to ensure challenge after around 2nd grade.  This explains why the overwhelming majority of high SES DC parents who stay in the public system past the early grades do this.

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This is such a gross and untrue position.  It’s not an accurate representation of our experience in a title 1 school.  It paints the teachers, principal, and fellow students in such a bad light with so many false assumptions.

You don’t have to do anything like this.  You’ll be a better person if you can overcome the biases of the PP.[/quote]

Disagree with the preachy and judgmental statements above.  We bailed on a solid T1 Capitol Hill school, where we'd been since PreK for our oldest child, for Brent after 2nd grade with lottery luck and have never looked back.  Our children have been a lot happier, and far better served by the DCPS curriculum, at the new school since Day 1.  Teachers, a principal and fellow students simply can't fix the harsh realities of the nature of multi-generational poverty impacting low SES minority families in our inner cities.   The "biases" of the PP are not the issue.   A strong principal and teachers, which we had at our T1 school, can't solve enormous societal problems.  We burned out on trying to make the T1 school work.  The effort grew exhausting, without our children ever being pushed academically, really fitting in socially, or having strong extra curricular options to choose from. At Brent, the oldest child knows that many of her classmates are ahead of her academically, and in the instrumental music classes she takes, and strives to keep up.  We're not white and like the diversity at our new school.[/quote]

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