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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My non-JH, ACPS 2nd grader is starting to suffer the effects of being an average MC child in a class of high needs children.  The fact that she is only performing at grade level when she was in the 97% on the NNAT in first grade seems to me that she is not reaching potential.  But, her teachers and the school are overwhelmed by the 45% ESL population, meaning she does not even make the list of kids needing a parent-teacher conference.  This is why one should not send their kids to certain schools - they will be consumed by kids needing 90% of teachers and staff attention and mediocrity becomes success.[/quote]

Yes this is the key issue. What is needed in those schools is more than one teacher per classroom. Spend less on the central office and more on getting teachers into classrooms.

There are kids who start out in PreK and go all the way thru ACHS and are still failing and can barely read or do basic math. So clearly something the school is doing doesn’t work.

Public housing is filled with generational poverty. And that’s not mean it’s the fact that once a family is in they can’t leave because where else can they go they can afford. Blame the City for not helping two generations ago move into their own permanent housing.

The mistake of J-H was putting that IB program there. Instead they should have went with the traditional
model that Lyles Crouch. There was a high demand for that program and it had good results. I feel they cheated the students who needed it most. 
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