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[quote=Anonymous]For the OP--Don't know if you're still considering Key, but we are an OOB family and have felt very welcomed.

Aftercare is complicated; there are few spots that come open. We've made do with adding an after-school sitter and taking the school up on enrichment activities (although those don't go consistently weekly through the school calendar), so it's a little bit of spit and duct tape.

Sorry I can't speak to the SN/IEP issue.

I've been impressed by how the social/emotional learning has been woven into the curriculum by the teachers. Our class last year was especially warm and communal, and that's not accidental--the teachers are working well to make that happen.

The principal mishandled the situation at the school, without a doubt. What doesn't get represented on this board is that there *were* parents who spoke up at school meetings against the continuance of the principal and that it's clear the school needs to do some serious work on race/diversity/inclusion in the coming year. And the other thing that doesn't get mentioned is that this is a school where the teachers feel like they have solid support from the admins, and I've gotten the sense that they have much more leeway than teachers in other DCPS schools (which means they feel trusted, which in turn makes for good teaching), and if keeping the bumbling principal in exchange for keeping teachers and staving against whatever wildcard DCPS would throw at the school as a principal, then that's a tradeoff some families were willing to take. [/quote]

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