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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.  [/b]

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.

Wow...someone took a crash course in educational policy. I actually laughed out loud when I read this.  Especially the bold.  What do you find problematic about the teachers?  Also please share with me exactly what makes you think Principal Cobbs did not recieve her master's degree from an institution that meets your standards?  I mean I get the neighborhood snob thing but now we have degree snobs on here.  Yikes.

So confused why people move to Stanton Park when they clearly have racial and SES hang ups.  The neighborhood is mixed in terms of SES.  people have owned houses for a while, people rent, there is rent control, etc.  Why not move somewhere else?  Weird.
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