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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Resigned DCPS teacher (as of this year); this is exactly why I am leaving DCPS. I cannot reasonably serve your high academic children while serving 4 other levels in between at vastly different ends of the spectrum in impossible. The school enrichment model is a farce. Until the DCPS parents want to truly acknowledge this and stop pretending that their individual schools are going meetings the needs their children, the cycle will continue. It does not bode well for the DCPS community nor central office to ignore that a high number of children are already at or exceed the benchmark. Throwing “enrichment” into the curriculum to keep parents calm really does nothing but stick your head in the sand. Differentiation only works when most of the students are already at or near the benchmark —-not when you have 4/5th graders reading on kinder, 1st or 2nd grade levels and everyone else 5th, 6th or 7th grade levels. I’m leaving for Howard County’s true gifted educational model.

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For context, are you teaching at a high performing school in a WOTP DCPS (or its equivalent elsewhere in the city)?  All the kids I know are at or near the benchmark and many are high performing.[/quote]

Read the message; I'm pretty sure they are not. [/quote]

In my WOTP ES, the majority of kids are at or near benchmark, and many are high performing. For MS, most kids still seem to do well, but I am hearing more stories about disruption in classrooms and yes, my kid could probably be more challenged, but DC is still learning. We will reevaluate when we get to HS. I am hearing good things about Wilson and my neighbors report great college immatriculation for their kids.[/quote]

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