Anonymous wrote:OP here, sorry for the delay, getting things finalized for my bestfriends 40th birthday. Anyhow, screen time is not one of the issues at our school. That was one posted who mentioned Dora.

On the fundraising point, most kids families can't afford $20 for a school t-shirt or $3 for a raffle ticket. Why not find cheaper options? One parent said " If a family has a cell phone, they can afford a shirt" Huh, what?

At one of our APPT meeting two familes had suggested pull out groups for their children as if the other students are behind. It's PK3 people!

A friend of mine at another EOTP school just put the icing on the cake. A parent at her DS school complained about the Trix yogurt that was served during breakfast. It's on the menu once a month! Feed your kids at home or don't let them eat it. Problem solved. I find most of the breakfast to be balanced although some items are a mystery.

I don't know, I'd complain about Trix yogurt too. There is just no need for it and while eating it once a month won't kill my kids, they currently don't know it exists and may start asking for it and no longer liking plain yogurt once they have had yogurt thAt is so full of sugar. Plus eating a ton of sugar in the morning isn't condusive to learning for anyone. But I'd be more likely to just feed my kids at home that morning and get to school after breakfast vs launch a big campaign. But I still think serving it is not the best decision - particularly for the teacher that then has to teach a bunch of kids on a sugar high.

NP here - I find it pretty hard to swallow that it's really that many poor families who "can't afford" a $3 raffle ticket - every school morning I see a long line of kids coming from the nearby subsidized housing projects and lining up outside CVS on their way to their majority FARMS school waiting to buy candy, chips, junk food... (they make them wait at the door to prevent shoplifting) It's not "can't afford" to support the school as much as it is "don't care and don't want to" support the school.

I seriously think most of the posters making their commentaries are either being disingenuous or don't actually know half of what goes on.

Looking forward to that.

Mega monster entitled aspiring dcps parent here. My head would effing aesplode if dcps fed my child McDonalds.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, sorry for the delay, getting things finalized for my bestfriends 40th birthday. Anyhow, screen time is not one of the issues at our school. That was one posted who mentioned Dora.

On the fundraising point, most kids families can't afford $20 for a school t-shirt or $3 for a raffle ticket. Why not find cheaper options? One parent said " If a family has a cell phone, they can afford a shirt" Huh, what?

At one of our APPT meeting two familes had suggested pull out groups for their children as if the other students are behind. It's PK3 people!

A friend of mine at another EOTP school just put the icing on the cake. A parent at her DS school complained about the Trix yogurt that was served during breakfast. It's on the menu once a month! Feed your kids at home or don't let them eat it. Problem solved. I find most of the breakfast to be balanced although some items are a mystery.

$20 shirts at a Title 1 school is a bad idea. I understand that.

The Trix yogurt complaint is stupid. We've also heard parents complain about ordering pizza or a walk to McDobalds after a trip. Your kid is not so fragile that a McNugget is going to implode their digestive system. But yeah, I suppose you will no longer be able to claim that Larla has never eaten at McDobalds!

We are at one and DID suggest pullouts for our kid because at a certain point, if you're at the front end of the change, your kid might need some different attention. This has been the primary issue for us and will ultimately lead us to leave. You can't create on-level peers when there are none. And at Title 1 schools this is just more likely to happen. This isn't to say gentrifier kids are always the more advanced ones. Just that there will be a few and the schools aren't really set up to handle it, even if they do their best. It's not just about effort or also has to include peer exposure.

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On the fundraising point, most kids families can't afford $20 for a school t-shirt or $3 for a raffle ticket. Why not find cheaper options? One parent said " If a family has a cell phone, they can afford a shirt" Huh, what?

What affluent patents fail to realize is that a cell phone is more of a need than a want these days especially if you don't have computer or Internet at your home! Also a lot of poorer families are on a pay as you go plan.

If you have said your piece then just sit back and watch the raffle fail. There was a great post last month about fundraising in title schools and it's worth foward ingredients to get ideas of more realistic ways to fundraise.


hardcore eye rolling at pullout services for "advanced" 3 year olds

I have definitely seen how affluent parents at less affluent schools will throw their weight around and act entitled. Sometimes they have an agenda that doesn't really benefit the whole school or doesn't consider the needs or interests of the majority of students and their families.

OP here, sorry for the delay, getting things finalized for my bestfriends 40th birthday. Anyhow, screen time is not one of the issues at our school. That was one posted who mentioned Dora.

On the fundraising point, most kids families can't afford $20 for a school t-shirt or $3 for a raffle ticket. Why not find cheaper options? One parent said " If a family has a cell phone, they can afford a shirt" Huh, what?

At one of our APPT meeting two familes had suggested pull out groups for their children as if the other students are behind. It's PK3 people!

A friend of mine at another EOTP school just put the icing on the cake. A parent at her DS school complained about the Trix yogurt that was served during breakfast. It's on the menu once a month! Feed your kids at home or don't let them eat it. Problem solved. I find most of the breakfast to be balanced although some items are a mystery.

Anonymous wrote:OP, please give more specifics. Right now it just sounds like you are venting about involved parents, not entitled ones.

Or just trying to stir stuff, you haven't mentioned a single example.

These pesky entitled parents are what has led school reform in DC.

The teachers in those EoTP schools are typically excellent. But they can be dealt a hand that is very difficult. One kid in a class with severe problems will cause the entire class to suffer. Multiple kids with problems makes the issue exponential. If the teacher doesn't get support from the administration, we're all screwed.

I am not entitled if I expect that my kid goes to school in a safe place and doesn't get beat on or have to witness violent outbursts, or otherwise get bullied emotionally.

Whoever started this thread must be a jackass with real low standards, or be the parent of a bully.

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Anonymous wrote: Their complaints seem small when taken in the context of larger issues faced by kids in class, but for them, issues like kids getting yogurt with a lot of added sugar for breakfast or Dora the Explorer being shown in aftercare once a week are really big deals. Privilege is what it is.

Oh balls, my kid hasn't transitioned to dcps yet, but if those examples were considered entitlement, I would be a mega monster entitled pain. Is this something else you have to add to the "concrete differences between EOTP and WOTP schools other than wealthy families" thread? Do WOTP appropriately limit screen time to zero in early learning, and have some awareness about the health problems from too much sugar?

The fact that you managed to work "Oh, balls!" and "mega monster" into a a 2 1/2 line post makes me want to buy you an overpriced but DC-brewed pint somewhere near my neighborhood.

Oh, thank you!

^bash not "bask"

Anonymous wrote:Entitled behavior is teachers who expect a nice salary for letting kids watch TV instead of teaching.

Wow, some people will take any opportunity to bask teachers, even when it is not relevant

I'm not a huge fan of screen time for young kids but here it is occurring in aftercare not during the actual school day so it has no affect on how much time the teachers are spending teaching.

OP will likely leave the school soon, in search of a worse performing one, not to meet those pesky "gentrifiers" anymore. Good riddance.