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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is funny to me. Stokes tried to walk the walk and serve in a super high risk low income area of DC - and they got what they asked for, to some extent. It’s freaking hard to run schools with high numbers of at risk. Families aren’t always easy to deal with or stable. Basically you invite in all the issues that DCPS knows all too well. It sounds like Stokes didn’t have a clue how to deal with this. I agree that counseling out the kind of parents you’ve patted yourself on the back for reaching out and serving isn’t a good look. [/quote]

This.  Even if everything Stokes says is true, it is part and parcel of operating over there.  Children with a difficult parent need and deserve a good education as much as anyone else does.  Find a way to deal with it or get out.

Sometimes HRCS are not so successful if they can't stack their classes with disproportionately high income kids and push out the hard-to-serve.[/quote]

You people seriously think that only at-risk kids have behavioral problems and angry and verbally abusive parents? No. I've seen plenty of teachers and administrators get chewed out and threatened with lawsuits out for presumed affronts or slights to their kids. Generally the staff just absorbed it, and tried to stay calm (ES and MS).

When we were at LAMB several years ago, a middle-class parent from Ward 3 once punched another parent. The trigger was parent 2 asking parent 1's kid to please slow down and be careful in the halls (parent 2 and parent 2's kid nearly fell down when kid 1 ran into them). Parent 1 was barred from the school for the remainder of the year (2 months).[/quote]

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