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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The IB number is still very low and missed the goal Pride had hoped for last spring. She is focused on only giving out feeder numbers rather than IB numbers. [/quote]

Principal Pride is right. Given the organization of DCPS schools after Rhee, her given constituency are now the feeder school , not the IB families. There's several IB 6th graders who are not from feeder schools, so I would not be surprised if the number of 6th graders from feeder schools matched more or less the number of IB 6th graders.

You have to understand that, for a Principal of a diverse school, flagging out in victory the number of 6th grade IB kids (as opposed to feeders school kids) would be seen as an hostile move by a significant part of her current (and potential) families. She is a committed and experience professional, she knows she needs to promote the school for future applicants, but she also and most importantly needs to take care of the currently enrolled students and their families.

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I completely agree that true IB is the most relevant metric.

However I also agree that the principal is in a delicate position and must be careful not to create divisions within the school community, and thus I also completely agree with her publicly stated focus on the feeder schools. I am sure that privately she is just as concerned about true IB as we all are, but it is not politically astute for her to discuss this publicly. I recommend cutting her some slack and trusting that she wants the same thing you do, provided that you observe that her actions are consistent with that goal (as I believe they are).

I think it is probably the same with the uniforms: I bet most IB families think they should go, but some IB families currently attending think that it would needlessly antagonize many OOB families, who support the uniforms by the sound of it, if they advocate to do away with them. Again, I recommend cutting those IB families some slack. They have to do this balancing act.

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