Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I do know several people with special needs kids who had bad experiences.
This is true of J-H as well regarding special needs students. But, there are others who have positive experiences at J-H per the comment above. I think the problems for special needs students at J-H are just a magnification of ACPS’s general problems as to special needs students (and reflective of prior extremely poor leadership at the principal level at J-H).
I don't know much about JH but the multiple negative testimonies I've heard about how MVCS deals with special needs have led me not to enroll my special needs child there.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I do know several people with special needs kids who had bad experiences.
This is true of J-H as well regarding special needs students. But, there are others who have positive experiences at J-H per the comment above. I think the problems for special needs students at J-H are just a magnification of ACPS’s general problems as to special needs students (and reflective of prior extremely poor leadership at the principal level at J-H).
Anonymous wrote:I do know several people with special needs kids who had bad experiences.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our friends all love it. Great community feel. Spanish immersion is great. Lots of community events aimed at creating a real sense of community. For ACPS, you need to look at the test scores for your demographics. For my family, they were quite high at all schools. ACPS seems to fail low income students across all races. To me that is concerning.
OP here. Does that even apply to Jefferson-Houston?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our friends all love it. Great community feel. Spanish immersion is great. Lots of community events aimed at creating a real sense of community. For ACPS, you need to look at the test scores for your demographics. For my family, they were quite high at all schools. ACPS seems to fail low income students across all races. To me that is concerning.
You're right of course they do fail low income kids but they really fail everyone.
Looking at the scores from various schools is very illuminating.
But I also recommend that you consider moving to a different city/school district. ACPS is really a disaster and it's not on the track to get better.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our friends all love it. Great community feel. Spanish immersion is great. Lots of community events aimed at creating a real sense of community. For ACPS, you need to look at the test scores for your demographics. For my family, they were quite high at all schools. ACPS seems to fail low income students across all races. To me that is concerning.
You're right of course they do fail low income kids but they really fail everyone.
Looking at the scores from various schools is very illuminating.
But I also recommend that you consider moving to a different city/school district. ACPS is really a disaster and it's not on the track to get better.
Anonymous wrote:Our friends all love it. Great community feel. Spanish immersion is great. Lots of community events aimed at creating a real sense of community. For ACPS, you need to look at the test scores for your demographics. For my family, they were quite high at all schools. ACPS seems to fail low income students across all races. To me that is concerning.
Anonymous wrote:Our friends all love it. Great community feel. Spanish immersion is great. Lots of community events aimed at creating a real sense of community. For ACPS, you need to look at the test scores for your demographics. For my family, they were quite high at all schools. ACPS seems to fail low income students across all races. To me that is concerning.