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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If his daughter spent most of her time in middle school playing cards, being unchallenged and having a frequent rotation of subs or teachers coming/going, why does he need a WashPo article to tell us what we all know? DCPS is not prepared for middle school and certainly, there are only a few slots at the magnet high schools. I'm assuming that Weedon probably had to get a tutor for his DD in order for her to do well on PARCC and entrance exams to Walls given the lack of proper rigor.

While DCPS struggles with proper middle/high school neighborhood options, the schools in the suburbs struggle with how not to be pressure cookers. Those in the private Big 10 also struggle with the pressure cooker environments.

Its a sad state of affairs when our only option in this region and across the country is a pressure cooker school which comes with lots of learning, room for challenge/growth and opportunities vs disengaged low scoring schools rife with little challenge.

DC is in a unique position because the city council allowed charters here to directly compete with city public schools, thereby almost forcing DCPS to begin looking at how to retain residents for funding schools. New residents are trying to hold DCPS accountable with little success. DCPS is only good through elementary and they don't seem to care about proper neighborhood middle/high school options because its economic city tax base is strong. Many residents in the District are childfree and therefore don't use the city's schools so they really don't care to be involved. Many are also transient and not here for the long term. Still, others will leave after the free pre-k for the suburbs or private schools. 
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There are a lot of DC type A types who think tutoring is necessary, but for smart motivated kids its 
 unnecessary.  The broad brush applied to EH and by extension its students and community is unfair when you can't even acknowledge the kids who happen succeed, however much they're an exception.[/quote]

While the Weedons have seen the social and community benefits that come with attending their neighborhood middle school, they have also encountered the challenges.  [b]Most prominently: high turnover among teachers and administrators, which leads to an unstable academic environment. His daughter says she has become an expert card player because of all the free time she has had with substitute teachers.[/b]

Are you ignoring this portion of the article or just lacking proper comprehension? There was an unstable academic environment, his daughter became an expert card player and you tell me that the possibility of Malia having a tutor is a type A behavior? I am sure her parents had to fill in the large academic DCPS gaps in some form--- tutors, enrichment, etc.  There are many posters on here who attend DCPS in upper elementary/middle school who provide out-of-school experiences--- which are a form of enrichment. There are others who have a tutor but probably wouldn't admit it --- the horror of do as I say, but not as I do exist in many DC liberal circles.

PP, you need to get off the offensive train, I did not paint the EH community with a broad brush nor did I state that there aren't smart kids at EH. I simply came to a conclusion based on what I read on WashPo. [/quote]

gee, that kind of sounds like it was [i[b]]A JOKE[/b][/i].  I would question why he'd make a joke at the expense of a school he's trying to prop up.  Then again, playing cards is a good skill for reinforcing math, albeit not where you'd want a middle schooler's math focus to be.

Passing PARCC is just not a big deal for a smart kid.  The idea of tutoring someone to succeed at PARCC is mind numbingly stupid.

The school [i]has[/i] had high turnover.  They're on their 4th principal in 4 years.  They've had the same IB coordinator the entire time and she's fantastic.  I'm sure whatever shortcomings EH has (and not to mitigate the school's struggles), motivated kids can succeed in such an environment.  Most white IB families (and some AA too) just won't give it the time of day.[/quote]

So you’re just going to ignore that Malia has had educational gaps and come up with the pitiful excuse that card games are a way to reinforce math skills? :roll: [/quote]

What gaps?  The ones that got her accepted into SWW? You're reaching  :roll: [/quote]

DP- are you kidding?  Or do you not understand reading comprehension?  No one is reaching- you don’t become an “expert card Player” because you’re learning so much at school. [/quote]

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