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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have the choice I would not go with TR. We were there for two years and I’m so grateful we don’t have to deal with it anymore. There are so many things that can’t be explained or justified - and don’t even try to bring it up to the administration. TR changed out my child’s first grade teacher for the last 2 months of school to support “enrollment efforts” and then refused to even talk to parents until well after the change had been made. They care a lot about admissions and little about children.[/quote]

This aligns with our experience. There are some stellar teachers and staff; leadership seems to be a vulnerability.[/quote]

This. Our DC's teachers in K and first were excellent otherwise we would have bailed sooner. Leadership is truly terrible; I'm not sure how much longer the school can survive under current ED.[/quote]

Putting aside how the leadership navigated distance learning, how have the leadership deficiencies manifested themselves at the classroom/instructional level?  Is there a sense that kids are being poorly educated in core areas of learning? And if so, what student subgroups are most impacted? To the extent there are disparate impacts, how much of this is traceable to problems with leadership versus demographic features present in most DC schools?

Are there leadership dynamics that DON’T seem to be impacting classroom level outcomes, even if the such dynamics are problematic in principle?

I’m just trying to understand is TR is on balance preferable to our low performing (ie, test scores)  in-bound DCPS, which I think is well run.

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All leadership dynamics impact the classroom eventually.  Staff leaves and it's hard to attract good people because the school gets a bad rep.

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Yes. I understand that, but I’m asking if that that has — in fact — occurred at TR?

And there may be some things that are more objectionable to certain families (even UMC families) that are of no consequence (or at least not a deal breaker) for other families. I’m just trying to get a concrete sense of how the the reported leadership deficiencies are harming academic outcomes for students, or for certain students.

My choice isn’t  between Two Rivers or JKLM (or LT, Maury, SWS, private).  It’s between TR for the next few years versus our inbound DCPS, with only a narrow slice of kids at grade level in Math me ELA / basically none above grade level.  In light of the concerns with TR, would our inbound (or similarly situated DCPSs) STILL be a better choice?

We are fine with going private for middle and HS or moving if necessary if that a useful factoid.

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