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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school has tried for a long time to be a model of inclusion, and in my opinion it should remain so.  They just have to get better at it.

Research shows that bilingual education is actually quite beneficial to many students with cognitive or behavioral disabilities when done right.  The key is to have enough resources.  As a poster said, O-A has a higher percentage of special education students than some of the other WOTP schools.  It also has several times as many English language learners and far more economically-disadvantaged kids.

In my opinion this is not necessarily a barrier to success but it will require more focused leadership.

Unfortunately this new principal is not it.  Either DCPS should offer more resources and guidance or we can hope the principal soon recognizes that she's not up to the job and her tenure becomes an unfortunate blip in the school's otherwise impressive history.

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[b]No, I don't want the principal to leave.  Perhaps another bilingual school's (i.e., Marie Reed, Powell, Bancroft) principal is interested in having their school become a model of inclusion.  It doesn't have to be Oyster.[/quote][/b]

Why no Oyster? Why create a new program in a new school when there is one in place at Oyster already? Are there people currently at Oyster who are actively against inclusion and want to get rid of the program? Is that what I am reading? [/quote]

I'm not against inclusion at Oyster, but I cannot speak for everyone.  That said, I have no problem with Oyster remaining an inclusion school, but why can't other schools (immersion and monolingual) also become model schools?  Why should Oyster bear all of the pressure, while dealing with a huge budget cut.  If parents/DCPS wants Oyster to have an effective inclusion program, then DCPS better provide ALL of the money to support it.[/quote]

All of the immersion charters are inclusion schools. Tyler is as well. Not sure of the other DCPS schools but I think they are too.[/quote]

Please be careful of the language you are using. Every public school is an 'inclusion' school under the law and there isn't a single DCPS or charter school with 0% of students with an IEP. Only a very small percentage of students with IEPs require self-contained classrooms or the kind of intensive services that require them to go to more centralized facilities.

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And ironically, Tyler has several of these self contained classrooms.  And their sped coordinator looks for any opportunity to keep kids out of the Immersion program - very few kids w/ IEPs remain in immersion.[/quote]

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