Reply to Parents are pulling their children out of Basis FAST!

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Parents are pulling their children out of Basis FAST!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

In fact, there are very few truly gifted children and those that are gifted are not languishing in classrooms without an inadequate education. If the bar for special education students is that they be able to access the curriculum to meet FAPE, then the same bar should be in place for the talented test takers who test in an advanced category. In this city, it is foolish to divert resources to create "gifted" programs when there are so few truly gifted students and so little need for programs to serve them when they are doing just fine in the regular school system.[/quote]

You live WotP, right?

What's foolish is this sort of myopia.  What you're seeing are more and more "advanced learners" coming into DCPS and DC Charter due to shifting demographics and the cost of new mortgages and privates both going through the roof.  Frankly, what you have are more and more of the children of some of the best educated professionals in the country sitting in the same classes as some of the least educated, families on welfare since the Great Society programs kicked n half a century ago, in an inner city setting.

I wouldn't call my kid "truly gifted" but with Stanford graduates as parents he's already so bored, and disruptive as a result, in K at a respected charter that we're forced to consider privates, the burbs or moving within DC (to Upper NW?  to the Brent District? try language immersion?) so he can be IB for a majority high SES school.  He's being taught skills he over learned a year ago all school day long and our complaints to the school get us nowhere because they're not set up to educate kids like him.

If only kids like mine were in fact "doing just fine" in the regular school system EotP.  For the most part, they are not, explaining broad high SES attrition in the upper grades at Capitol Hill schools in particular.  Look at a school like Watkins, which has been struggling to keep high SES parents past 2nd grade for 25 years now.  Ask yourself why so many of the college-educated parents go well before Basis becomes an option.  It's because their kids are thriving without programs for advanced learners or, heaven forbid, gifted kids?  Wrong.

If Basis offered an elementary school program, we'd certainly consider it.  Really hope they will eventually for the sake of my property values even if we can't stay in DC public schools.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics