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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a little perspective is in order. Yes, the administration is a shit show. But most (not all) of the parents you talk to will tell you that their kids are doing well in the class. Most of the fights we are fighting are about making the school something better than that. We previously were at Bethune. Shining Stars is a mess right now, but it's not in the same ballpark as Bethune.

The bottom line is that we will be in the lottery this year, for sure. If we don't draw something better, we aren't going to pull our kid and go spend $25K on a private school, and we aren't going to go to our neighborhood DCPS (Burroughs). We want out, it's true, but it's not an emergency. It's just exhausting to offer up every resource a school could ask for, and have those offers ignored. So instead we offer those resources to our classroom and support our teacher directly, until the school improves, we draw a great lottery school, or we move somewhere else.

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If your kid hits Upper Elem, you'll have a very different perspective. That's when school becomes very real and has consequences. You think nearly an entire parent community board leaves for nothing? A lot of time, energy, and effort were put in because kids were being negatively affected. Some of those parents were actually educators that volunteered to assist with curriculum development and standardization as well as classroom management techniques. All are critical as the kids get older. SSMA is really not even doing Montessori in Upper Elem.  At DCPS parents have some power, not at charters. [/quote]

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