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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reframing (not OP) - which DCPS ES have a foreign language as a special, and for what grades? I learned to ask this at open houses last year, but only after I’d already been to a bunch. I stupidly assumed all ES would have at least some foreign language. They don’t! It seems that Title 1 schools sometimes opt to use their extra funding for foreign language, but some don’t. At wealthy schools it’s PTA funded, but some wealthy schools (Stoddert) don’t have any foreign language. Mann has Spanish that is PTA funded but only through 2nd (?) grade. SWS has French- is that in every grade? [/quote]

Maury used to have a Spanish special but got rid of it a couple years ago. (Didn’t replace it with anything—always just cuts, cuts, cuts.) It didn’t do a lot for my kid, who inherited a really bad mind for languages from me, but it is a little galling that some schools are able to have more offerings than others. Specials feel to me like something that should be standard across the school system. [/quote]

You say you want specials to be standard across the system, but that would probably mean:
1. Some of the wealthy schools would complain about which specials are chosen
OR
2. Specials that support student learning for struggling students would be cut.

Example: my child’s Title 1 school opted for reading support and reading acceleration special instead of art.  Imagine some parents hearing their kids’ didn’t have Art special. I’d rather have principals decide how to use resources to support the student population.[/quote]

Your example story is not possible, specials are specifically used to cover teacher planning. Also Library, PE, and Art (or Music) are all are required special every school must have.
You cannot replace it with an ‘intervention’ special -firstly because not all students would need it, what would the other students be doing? Second like I just said those 3 specials are required.

Some of you are unaware that it is the principal choosing to cut these specials -sometimes it’s a move to cut staff they don’t like and sometimes it’s just DCPS cut the schools budget so they have to get rid of the most ‘unnecessary’ staff member. [/quote]

My example is absolutely possible since my child’s school did it last year.  They had: PE, music, library, Spanish, reading as their specials.  Yes they split the classes between reading intervention and acceleration.  So please continue saying what schools can and can’t do.

And yes I know principals determine specials teachers besides the required ones such as PE.  You are not the only person who knows the system.[/quote]

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