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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a long-term DCPS parent who bailed from Deal for private for 9th for kids 1 and 2 and am really torn about kid number 3. 
My concerns about JR which I see echoed by many parents:

-missing teachers. My understanding is that last year there was no physics teacher(s) (AP or otherwise) for an entire semester.  The kids just sat in a room(s). This year my daughter's friend is missing a teachers in AP environmental science and AP psychology.  She just sits in a room and has for months.  I know that some parents are really chill about this but it would really bother me for a high schooler.  We had this happen several times at Deal and I was okay with it then but this is high school!  You don't learn physics what happens when you get to college and are in class with kids who had excellent instruction? 
 
-really weak writing, humanities and foreign language instruction.  My kids left Deal and with great grades but could barely write a critical essay and knew next to no foreign language.  They hit private school and had their a$$es kicked for a good year in these subjects (as they wrote a collective 50 pages of essays across all subjects in 9th grade).  Meanwhile, their JR friends continued on their trajectory of doing next to no writing, learning no foreign language and getting high As.  I just can't reconcile this in my brain.  I know that one does not need to be able to critique and analyze literature at a high level in most jobs OR do advanced Spanish grammar but it still bothers me.  I know many kids who graduate JR and (in the words of another DCUM) "can't write their way out of a paper bag."  I have a hard time being ok with this. [/quote]

I simply cannot believe that any parent accepts any of this as OK.[/quote]

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