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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]As a UMC charter parent, I'm starting to feel like our charter does NOT listen to UMC parents AT ALL but instead focuses on the majority of the student population...which is NOT UMC.[/b] I don't approve of the mitigation strategies our charter rolled out but I'm apparently in a minority, and viewed as the privileged white parent who finds fault with everything and anything.

Majority of parents seem just fine that kids are back and in-person. Parents aren't raising any concerns over the fact that lunch is inside or that desks are touching with no distancing whatsoever.

I'm currently trying to figure out how we can quickly move. We can't afford private. We can't afford to live WOTP. I'd homeschool - and my child would be fine with that - but DC NEEDs time with peers and socialization. Am I the only parent sick to their stomach right now?

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We left EL Haynes 6 years ago for that same reason (obviously having nothing to do with Covid).  To be fair, the school is very clear that its mission is to serve the (significant) majority of kids who come from difficult circumstances.  They want to give kids a chance at good jobs/college who otherwise wouldn't have it, and there are only so many resources, so kids who are UMC are largely left to fend for themselves.  I don't blame them for that, but neither does it make the school a great fit when kids start to get into upper elementary/middle school.  If we'd been zoned for Deal, we'd have stuck it out through 5th grade, but we weren't, so we moved to MoCo.  Very few similarly situated families stayed past middle school.  [/quote]

We had the same experience at a different charter. It was a wonderful fit for lower elementary, but clearly became not a good fit for upper elementary. I don't necessarily begrudge the school, but it was a bit of a surprise to have to start shopping for a new school sooner than expected. I would caution other UMC parents in a similar position to at least mentally prepare themselves for a move when/it the time comes that the school no longer meets your child's needs.

We were lucky to match to a WOTP DCPS in the lottery. The difference is night and day and my child is thriving in the new environment as she was starting to notice the problems with her previous school as well. She is so much more supported in the new school and it is having a tremendous impact.[/quote]

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