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[quote=Anonymous]Part of your problem (imho) is that generally DCPS doesn’t believe that the ‘school’ ie Cardozo middle grades is failing even though the students are failing. And to some extent they are right - staff are often very good at many schools they just have students that are many grades behind, learn slowly and poorly regardless of whether you call that a learning disability, and have a critical mass of behavior problems. You take the same teaching crew and send them to Deal and everything is fine. So an argument that the school’s grades are bad and your students are too good for the place merits a mixed response. Sure the school has problems. But generally your kid will thrive wherever. So what’s bad about it is . . . the number of kids behind grade level choking out attention to your child? The number of unmanageable behavior problems in your kids’ class? Many of those things are not fixable at school - the “fix” is a barrier to enrollment or self-segregation away from those situations. But the staff, the space, everything would be different if your Shaw middle class kid was at Cardozo instead of just a cluster of hard cases and kids who were living in San Pedro Sula last year.[/quote]

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