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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For everyone complaining about all the things other people are doing wrong or aren't doing, what could you do to make the school a better place?  And I don't mean hypothetically if you were the head of DCPS. What could you do right now in your capacity to contribute instead of tearing it down at every turn?[/quote]

Here goes.  LT down above PreK for one school year.  Reassign the mainstream IB kids to Payne and JO Wilson, the OOB kids to their IB schools, and the SN kids bused in to the best programs for SN.

Re-open with a new head (a graduate of an elite college and graduate school), mostly new teachers (mix of races, white, Asian, Latino), new PTA with bona fide IB leadership.  Have IB parent volunteers do home visits/investigations for all IB kids enrolling, shutting down the PG County address cheaters.

I'd go with pullout groups for advanced learners from grade 2, advertising this to the IB community in advance.  I'd also put in place a system for looping up for math and reading in the upper grades, like Brent now has, from the get go.

I'd introduce a serious (non-immersion, non-elective) foreign language program from PreS3, probably for Spanish, as well as Singapore Math (which Maury uses) or Saxon Math (which BASIS uses).  Above all, I would end social promotion.  Kids who can't score proficient on the DC-CAS from 2nd grade attend summer school and try again.  If they fail a second time, they do not advance.  They repeat the grade or enter a separate SN program.

Do it and watch LT take off.

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