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[quote=Anonymous]19:15-- what do you see with the testing?  I have been discouraged by the PACE tests but that is DCPS mandate not Murch. I have a child with an IEP and happened to see one of his PACE results at an IEP review. I was completely discouraged and freaked out that no one had ever told me how poorly DC was doing in them. The teacher's calmed me down. They don't teach to the test nor put much weight in the scores. They reassures me they see DC everyday and have a much better idea on how DC is doing rather than one test mandated by downtown.

I too haven't seen the chaos. We have been in 5 different schools (don't ask, multiple children and tend to move) and have to say that Murch is run the same if not better than the other schools, including other DCPS schools we have been in. I do think they could streamline their notes home (get away from paper and/or send home with only youngest child!).

I have to say that that when I heard the new principal was a male I was very concerned. We have been at two school with male principals (neither DCPS) and majority female teachers. Both were very weak and unable to control the clique teachers. I don't see that at Murch at all. He seems to have won most of them over. If you want to get a good sense of how he is doing talk to any of the 5th grade teachers. All of them have been at Murch since the 1980s. They have seen it all. Besides being amazing at what they do they their insight into Murch and DCPS are priceless.  None of them are leaving- nor have I heard of any teacher besides the art teacher leaving. The entire staff deals with a lot between the facilities, downtown (don't even get me started on that place), overcrowding and children with a wide range of abilities. They make it work. Of course it isn't perfect. But when we have had a problem I have found the Principal and staff very open to discussing what problems there may be. We feel very fortunate to have Murch, warts and all, as our IB school. [/quote]

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