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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I'm a fan of Dr. B and think she is being unfairly blamed for DCPS policies.  It seems like a group of Lafayette parents (unclear how large but it seems like its the same 20 or so doing all the complaining)  liked that under Dr. Main the school was run like it was still 1980.  Dr. Main completely ignored DCPS policy and for some reason the central office never called her on it.  As I understand it, she wasn't doing basic things like testing the reading level of each first grader at the beginning and end of the year to see how they were improving. [b] So the school is experiencing the pain of decades of education policy changes all at once and some of that isn't that pretty - today's DCPS is super into "data based education" - which means tons of assessments and testing. [/b]

I do know that every family who is new to Lafayette is hugely appreciative of the fact that they know their child will have essentially the same experience as those kids whose parents are chummy with the principal and the teachers.  My child has experienced plenty of special and creative projects (many of which are unique to Lafayette) while still learning the same fundamental things in 4th grade that my older child learned in 4th grade at a different DCPS elementary school (like the revolutionary war - which is a 4th grade DCPS standard).  I am grateful for that, because if our Lafayette 4th grade teacher had the liberty to decide she'd rather teach ancient Egypt, there would be a bit of a hole in my kid's education.

I do hope that Dr. B isn't run out of town by a few loud complainers whose kids will eventually age out.  She's doing a great job under some trying circumstances.  [/quote]

interesting point.[/quote]

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