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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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? [/quote]

The difference is that when higher SES parents act like asses, it's considered "advocacy" or "parental involvement".

When higher SES kids act out, it's immediately attributed to an undiagnosed learning disability, never poor parenting.

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This 8 billion times.  I am a high SES white parent, and I went through a horrible experience very similar to this mothers, and although I am sure the principal couldn't stand me, there was never any question of kicking me off campus.

What I can say is that DCPS/Charters are HORRIBLE at dealing with preschoolers with behavioral issues.  I think that this is because they are more focused on their upper grades, and their discipline and interventions are all formulated for older kids. I mean, they decided the way to deal with my 3 year old was to give him a sticker chart with, I kid you not, 17 different categories to get a sticker in, and he had to get all of them in a day to win an incentive.  Generally behavioral charts are their only tool to deal with the preschoolers.

Looking back on it, I still feel utterly confused by how the school dealt so poorly with everything.  It created a vicious circle where I lost trust in the teachers and admins, and grew less and less cooperative. That's exactly how highly charged adversarial settings are created that lead to the conflicts this mom experienced. When your kid is having serious problems and the school is acting like your enemy, it's really, really hard. [/quote]

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