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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of pom-poms on this thread.  I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3.  After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road.  By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs.  They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax.  Better prepared families have been peeling off for years.  And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days...  only to be shot down by the WTU.  Why?  Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS?  Children don't pay Union dues!   So they (and their families) can go to...  someplace hot.  Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.[/quote]

Please don't feed this troll![/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I don't see this as trolling at all - I think it is a very accurate assessment of how things have been in recent years but I really think the educational climate in DC is right on the verge of taking a turn for the better.  The poster is spot on about the PS3/PK4 "grab" for those highly-desired charter schools. We were ignorant and didn't bother trying to enroll our 3-year-old in one of them when she qualified and now we're paying the price as we try to get her a spot in K. With that said, the sheer number of solidly middle class families (mostly white and black, fewer hispanic and asian) who are sending their kids to the lesser desirable charters as well as their neighborhood DCPS has EXPLODED. Seriously, EXPLODED. I think it's fair to ask about up and coming schools because in two years, they'll be unrecognizable (in a good way.) 
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