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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait so the whole agreement just signed will amount to nothing more than these few high needs kids back? What about schools where most kids are high needs?[/quote]

In those schools, the highest of the high needs would be prioritized. Or do you think teachers from Janney should be taken to staff Title 1 schools? I’m guessing not. On a school-by-school basis, it looks like DCPS wants to prioritize the highest needs kids. And I fully expect the selfish parents of DCUM land to flip out over that. [/quote]

Prioritizing the highest needs is one thing; deciding that the system only needs to educate a fraction of its students is another.  People *should* flip out over that.[/quote]

no sympathy. if the union and their parent cronies had not tanked the earlier plan (including the original hybrid idea) we would be much closer to getting all kids back into the classroom. [/quote]

Nope.  We wouldn’t be closer.  Insisting that some kids get 4 or 5 days means there is no capacity for many other kids to get back at all.

That was a big flaw in the last plan and, from what people are saying here, in DCPS’s approach now.

Why do at-risk kids have to have 4 or 5 days rather than 2 or 3?  Wouldn’t 2 or 3 be a big improvement?!  I get the at-risk needs are severe, but there are other serious needs that need addressing to.[/quote]

Well at this point it is all rumors. But what’s absolutely clear is that the hysterical and selfish reaction of the WTU and parent supporters set us back by months. But I’m sure you’ll blame everything on special needs kids - nothing we haven’t heard before![/quote]

Nobody is blaming things on special needs kids.  I know it is politically incorrect to say that anything less than everything should go to the neediest group, but allocating public resources is a compromise for everyone.

I mainly blame DC for making DCPS one of the top social services providers.  Those social services should absolutely be provided, but the chief provider should be organizations whose chief mission is social service, not the organization tasked with providing education to (all!) 40,000 public school kids.  How to make allocation decisions would be more straightforward and more effective is the problems and the solution providers were more clearly aligned.[/quote]

well, you’re wrong. the model of schools providing wrap-around services is well established here. and we’re talking about the core function of educating kids right now anyway - the whole “schools should not provide social services” is a canard on many levels. [/quote]

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