Anonymous wrote:

How to tell a child they must leave a school that they love?

Thad your parents make way to much money to send you to school with kids who might not master reading by the time they get their diploma after 12th grade regardless on their attendance. I don’t want to normalize such a low level exsistance as life is hard enough without you thinking some handful of loser kids are cool or nice which might make you think emulating them is ok.

I know it is all the same now but by 2nd grade you will start being put in groups and that will dictate your access into the next higher group and it is important to leverage strong and driven peer groups to soak up some socitial and collective momentum for your path. There simply not enough resources there to create momentum, those kids would have to be amazingly gifted and hard working to even have a chance to break out of the dead weight of their peer collective. Over here you will default to having a chance and will always get the benifit of the doubt and will simply have to keep up to succeed. If you turn out truly bright and hard working the sky is the limit over here.... don’t worry you will make new and better friends.

Now shut up and sit down, there are only so many seats in first class

How to tell a child they must leave a school that they love?

Anonymous wrote:OP here, it's K at ITS. That list has moved sooo fast, I was not mentally prepared for it.

The reason for the move is that DC is not being academically challenged right now. It's not because of too many black kids in the upper grades, it's because of hardly any high-performing kids in any grade and because I know her friends are leaving anyway. They are working on some pull-outs or whatever, but I know it's nowhere near the challenge that DC needs. I like the teacher but the group work is far below DC's level.

I'm not sure that we'll be thrilled with ITS as a middle school because it's such a small program, but I know it's a recently created program so we'll see how it grows. I would choose it over our IB middle school in a heartbeat.