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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep. Honestly you probably should. Your attitude has doomed your experience. As someone who has been a parent there for 9 years, I’ve met lots of families who have gone through the school under 4 Principals and more chancellors than I can name. Nothing the school can offer you will make you happy or make you feel like your DC has what they deserve. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere from the get go. [/quote]

+1. These parents will never be happy.[/quote]

I am the unenthused parent. And disagree. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for the kids to finish a book in English and discuss it. I also expect teachers for DC’s classes, not months where they sit in the cafeteria instead of learning because there’s no teacher or sub to fill in. They haven’t learned anything new about how to write since 5th grade. People lament about how 9th grade at JR is a “lost year”. That’s the main source of my concern. We are trying to get excited about the academy of choice and ARE happy with all the extracurricular choices. If 9th grade was rewarding at JR for your DC, please share. That would be helpful. Thank you. [/quote]

My point to you above is you are seeking a bad experience and only absorb information that supports your beliefs. There is plenty of info on DCUM about good experiences at JR. Read them and believe them. JR has an award winning newspaper mentored by DC journalists. Many kids go to top colleges. Many graduates go into writing based careers or major in writing or end up in journalism. The engineering program, biomed and CS programs are extremely rigorous with graduates performing well in national tests and competitions. Every day there is a DCUM post about kids coming into JR in advanced math and taking calc BC in 10th grade. One post even boasted that their kid could handle it in 9th. Most of these kids are coming from Deal and Hardy. In 2022, 723 students sat for AP tests at JR and 63 percent scored 3,4 or 5. Only 22.5% of U.S. public high school graduates in the class of 2021 scored a 3 or higher on a test, nationally. In MoCo, B-CC, which reports number of tests taken rather than number of students sitting for tests, 72.6 % of tests received a 3,4 or 5 with 472 tests getting a 1 or 2. And, don’t discount the 271 JR kids who took the test and got a 1or 2. They still got exposure to advanced learning and sat for a test. They were not streamlined out of honors programs or written off. They also may be poor test takers. My DD took 6 APs her junior year because that was what she wanted to do. She did extracurriculars with high time demands and only cared about doing well on 2 of the AP tests she wanted college credit for, if possible and studied for those and got 5s, her other scores weren’t great, including 2s, but she remained a straight A student and ended up at an Ivy where she has a A- average and is a double major in history and anthropology. You can read data and make the worst assumptions or read data and say damn, those kids are performing well!
Classes without teachers is hard and COVID made it worse nationally. DCPS is a hard place to work and people leave and move on. There was no Env Sci AP teacher, last year they were down a physics teacher for a while, one year they had to wait for a Chinese teacher to be cleared through the system. I am sure there will be some missing next year, but there will also be 200 who are there.

I am just saying know what you are getting into, know there is opportunity for a great experience, and help you kids learn from the bad ones. My DC had a 9th grade English teacher who used to teach conspiracy theories. He was let go the following year. The class became about how to recognize people who may talk a good game but are spewing falsehoods. A great lesson to learn, but they didn’t complete one novel that year either.

JR is far from perfect. But if you go in seeking a bad experience you are more likely to find one. If you go in seeking a good one, your kid will be great. There will something every year they will treasure, and they will do fine in college and beyond.

If you read all this and still say, at Deal we lacked teachers and how can you think that is ok, I refer to my earlier post. If you can, go elsewhere.

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