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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s obvious DCPS is moving towards de-tracking.  Efforts will likely be even more now with how awful the PARCC scores are since the pandemic.  PP above is right.  You are going to have kids in English class who can barely read with kids who are above grade level.

Now, more than ever, DCPS will redouble their efforts to focus on the bottom performers while caring nothing about the top.  To them, the top are “fine” to cruise along as status quo without learning much or being challenged at all

I went to public school and always thought that my kid would go public.  But their definition of fine is far from what my definition is.  We are out and not playing this game of race to the bottom.[/quote] This. Bowser and the city council are perfectly OK with Stuart Hobson detracked, no matter how many in boundary UMC families vote with their feet as a result.[/quote]

From Bowser's perspective (this is not true of much of the Council), this is an ideal political situation for her. As long as there are enough charter options for MC and UMC parents to reasonably satisfied, even enthusiastic about immersion, Montessori, and other specialty programming, there is not significant incentive to offer DCPS options for these families EotP. These tend to be the most demanding, hardest to satisfy public school parents. Look at how much drama gets stirred up by WotP parents over schools that are already high performing. For Bowser, what advantage is there to catering to this demographic EotP when there are already a number of charters targeting these kids, with expansion in the works? Once these parents are at charters, Bowser has limited-to-no responsibility and will no longer be the target of their ire.

Meanwhile, this frees up Bowser to focus on at risk kids and equity initiatives. Does she do this well? No, not at all, but the people negatively impacted aren't as vocal and demanding as the charter school parents.

This is key to Bowser's education approach, which continues to permit new and growing charters while limiting the ability of DCPS schools to serve students performing at or above grade level. It simplifies things for her. And since the Council has no real power over DCPS, their opposition on some of these matters is of limited influence.[/quote]

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