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[quote=Anonymous]Other folks have mentioned the academics, but I'll talk for a second about social aspects and classroom management.

i was a huge booster of our IB Title 1 school in the early years and firmly committed to keeping my kids there through MS. Well, I kept my oldest there through 5th and then pulled the others.

In the early years, the behavioral impact of multi-generational trauma were not as obvious. As the kids got older, the behavior got worse, and more dangerous. It wasn't all of the kids, or even a majority. But even 3 violent kids in a 20-kid classroom is going to create an impossible situation for the teachers, administration, and fellow students.

Intellectually, I understand that these kids were acting in a rational manner, related to the environments in which they were living and the trauma they had experienced, not to mention the violence they'd witnessed.

Intellecutally, I also understood that by moving my younger kids, I was leaving all of the amazing non-violent kids who were doing their best in a bad situation. But it was just too much after a while.

Tl;dr version: DCPS needs to do a lot more to deal with upper elementary kids who have experienced violence and trauma, because there's no way to keep that out of the classroom. [/quote]

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