Are Walls and Latin free from all the fights of other DCPS schools?

[Anonymous]

Are Walls and Latin free from all the bathroom fights and drugs that are going on at other schools? Maybe the screening keeps out the problem kids?

[Anonymous]

I don't hear about that kind of thing at BASIS, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean Banneker? Latin is a lottery school.

[Anonymous]

Doubt anywhere is free of drugs.

[Anonymous]

Latin is a lottery. No screening.

There are fights in all schools. Were you never a child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Walls and Latin free from all the bathroom fights and drugs that are going on at other schools? Maybe the screening keeps out the problem kids?

Premise is strange. Walls is a application school, Latin is a lottery. There are other application schools, and other lottery schools.

I do have the sense that Walls, Banneker, Latin and Basis don't have too many wild fights? Maybe there are others in that group, too.

[Anonymous]

Discipline data for every school is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't hear about that kind of thing at BASIS, FWIW.

Former Basis parent here - there was absolutely drug use in the bathrooms going on. No so much with fighting, just kids with rowdy classroom behavior and teachers refusing to do anything about it

[Anonymous]

Our “bad” MS that people avoid in favor of Latin is very calm with no/minimal fights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Discipline data for every school is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library

Discipline doesn’t actually indicate the climate of the school. A school with tighter discipline could be successfully using consequences to maintain order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discipline data for every school is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library

Discipline doesn’t actually indicate the climate of the school. A school with tighter discipline could be successfully using consequences to maintain order.

Not a perfect measure but at least gives a rough sense of magnitude. Probably a better starting point than the vague answers OP has gotten so far.

And if discipline is effective, shouldn't the schools with "tighter" discipline see a reduction over time?

[Anonymous]

What I've seen at our MS where there are supposedly fights, is that they aren't at the school - they are a few blocks away. I don't know any way that gets into data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't hear about that kind of thing at BASIS, FWIW.

Former Basis parent here - there was absolutely drug use in the bathrooms going on. No so much with fighting, just kids with rowdy classroom behavior and teachers refusing to do anything about it

Are you talking about vaping or marijuana? Or harder drugs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our “bad” MS that people avoid in favor of Latin is very calm with no/minimal fights.

Let me guess, the hidden gem of DCPS, Eliot Hine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Discipline data for every school is here: https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library

Discipline doesn’t actually indicate the climate of the school. A school with tighter discipline could be successfully using consequences to maintain order.

Not a perfect measure but at least gives a rough sense of magnitude. Probably a better starting point than the vague answers OP has gotten so far.

And if discipline is effective, shouldn't the schools with "tighter" discipline see a reduction over time?

They should see a reduction in each grade level over time, but since they're admitting a new 9th grade class each year, the total school wide number of incidents should remain the roughly the same.