What is high income in DC?

Anonymous wrote:It's a matter of degree, and many do not like to be characterized this way. Generally these people are comfortable joining the larger cohorts of people like themselves where they can, even where they remain minorities. It can be better to be part of the 25% white and upper class minority at a mostly black charter school in terms of getting curriculum tailored to your kids needs - generally, a need for on or above grade level rather than remedial programming - than part of a 5 percent or less at a supposedly gentrifying DCPS where your child can be one of few on grade level. But it's far from a private school education. The school can't literally segregate, but through effort and interest, people can tend to cluster.

Agree. When only 2 or 3 kids in your neighborhood school are above grade level and the majority are below grade level, those few kids needs won’t be met. They will be left to their own on chrome books all day or asked to be a leader and “help” the other kids. When a larger cohort of kids are above grade level like 25-30%, then there is a higher probability of more direct teacher instruction towards this cohort and needs are better met.

It’s not a private school education by far. But it’s better than your child being ignored just because they are advance. DCPS doesn’t care about challenging the more advance kids at the top. They care about one thing and one thing only and that is closing the achievement gap in bringing up the bottom.

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

Maybe they do organize social events, they just don’t invite you.

Anonymous wrote:To charters compared to while other schools? I would say MV felt like a small private (i.e The Sheridan School) when we toured, but we thankfully got into a WOTP school and are estactic.

Not at mundo verde but I wouldn’t be estactic about any WOTP school. I’d be fine with it I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

You realize they could be facing many more challenges and stressors, financial and otherwise, than the "professional, educated, homeowning" parents at your child's charter school?

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

You realize they could be facing many more challenges and stressors, financial and otherwise, than the "professional, educated, homeowning" parents at your child's charter school?

Anonymous wrote:Public school teacher here that sends my son a HRCS. I agree, there are many more professional, educated, homeowning parents in my son's charter. We all live in the same neighborhood. It's nice to socialize with parents and their kids who share more commonalities. There are way more birthday parties, parent organized social and sporting events to go to with Charter parents at my son's school.

At my public school where I work, there hasn't been 1 party or social event that families have organized and participated in outside of school in years. Very few parents, talk to each other. I wish they would more to organize and advocate for their children like charter parents do.

Sad. Our neighborhood school (EOTP and low-regarded) has a ton of involved families and events.