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Anonymous
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I pulled this from the thread on professors' kids because I thought everyone should see it. I had no idea others talk of Wilson this way, because that's not what you do in enlightened company.
IME, it's spot on. We're thinking of sending DCs to Wilson in a few years and shooting for Yale, in case that part's not obvious |
Anonymous
| really? others talk of Wilson this way? link please. |
Anonymous
| It's been discussed many times on this board about Wilson having one group of kids on the path to success and many others who are not. And of course you can guess how this breaks down racially. Yale or jail captures this sentiment. |
Anonymous
| Folks have described Wilson this way for years. The first time I heard it was several years ago from a Washington local who'd attended private schools in the area. It's not P.C. but it underscores the dichotomy. |
Anonymous
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OP,
You should check out Wilson's college placement. |
Anonymous
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Essentially Wilson practices de facto desegregation with the white kids disproportionately represented in certain academies. Remember, Reiner the teacher that was dumped and then re-hired at Wilson. read everything he wrote. He didn't want to deal with certain groups of students and an overwhelming majority, if not all, of the parents and students that supported him were white. His classes didn't look like Wilson. Was he a good teacher? Hell no, but the "Yale" crowd, liberal though they be, didn't want their kids taught by anyone who wasn't white. If Wilson lost those kids it would've been SOL.
And now you know the rest of the story. |
Anonymous
I'm so glad that you made this clear! Though I'm really surprised to hear it, I confess... |
Anonymous
That's complete BS - If you want to avoid black kids in your class or being taught be black teachers, don't send your kids to Wilson. The Yale crowd at Wilson wants their kids to have a well rounded educational experience and doesn't care about the color of the the teacher as long as he or she is good - and Reiner is - or the parents and kids wouldn't have clamored to get him back. |
Anonymous
Does anyone have a link to the actual list of school the Wilson grads got into over the last few years? I am in free fall anxiety about this . |
Anonymous
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WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO SCHOOL?
Graduation dates: Thursday, June 12, 2008/Friday, August 1, 2008 University of Massachusetts- Amherst Howard University Xavier University - Ohio Hampton University University of Maryland – College Park St. Johns University Montgomery College – Takoma Lincoln University Montgomery College – Rockville Montgomery College – Rockville University of Texas – Austin University of Pennsylvania University of Delaware UDC VA Commonwealth University Mount Holyoke College Frostburg State University New Mexico Military Institute Montgomery College Norfolk State University Allegheny of Maryland UDC George Mason University SUNY – Plattsburg VCU Corcoran School of Art and Design UDC Montgomery College Carnegie Mellon University University of Cincinnati Michigan State University Guilford College Marshall University University of Delaware University of New Haven Arizonia State University University of Toledo University of Pittsburg – Greensburg Temple University Kent State University American University and Howard University St. Johns University Lincoln University Howard University Hampton University Cornell University Lincoln University University of California Santa Barbara UDC UVA Arizona State University Elizabeth City State University Hampshire College Skidmore College North Central College University of Pennsylvania UDC UDC Lincoln University University of Chicago United States Marine Corps Norfolk State University Lincoln University George Mason University Texas Southern University Lincoln University Wesleyan University Carleton College Tufts University Everst College Montgomery College - Rockville George Mason University Damaris UDC Montgomery College – Rockville Univ. Maryland – Baltimore County Boston College University of Michigan – Flint West Liberty State College Montgomery College – Takoma Norfolk State University Marymount University Montgomery College The Excel Institute Northwestern University Central Pennsylvania Davidson College Lincoln University Delonta Bentley University of Montana Montgomery College University of Michigan Temple University Mount St. Mary’s University Aveda Cosmetology School West Liberty State College Liberty University Trinity University Trade school – cooking school North Carolina Central Northern Va. Community College Vassar College VCU George Washington University Smith College University of Maryland – College Park Bennett College Montgomery College SUNY Purchase Montgomery College University of Vermont Yale University Montgomery College Montgomery College – Rockville UNC Chapel Hill East Carolina University Morgan State University University of Vermont Hampton University Pennsylvania State University – Schuylkill VCU University of Notre Dame Morgan State University Montgomery College – Takoma/Silver Spring University of Colorado at Boulder VSU VCU Central State University of Massachusetts – Amherst Montgomery College – Takoma Delaware State SU and VA Union UDC Montgomery Beauty School Columbia University UDC Lincoln Tech SUNY - Purchase University of Michigan –Flint Katalin University of Alabama Montgomery College – Takoma Michigan State University of Michigan Barry University Five Towns College University of Wisconsin Macalester College Brown University George Mason University Trinity College Stanford University Marymount University Norfolk State University VCU Montgomery College – Rockville University of Connecticut UDC Montgomery College University of Maryland – College Park University of New Hampshire UDC University of Delaware University of Delaware Montgomery College – Takoma Michigan State Randolph Makin West Liberty University SUNY Geneseo UDC VSU Penn State University – Altoona UDC SUNY Binghampton North Carolina State University of Miami Slippery Rock University North Carolina A and T Alleghany College of Maryland PG College Wheaton College UDC William Penn State Honors College Mount St.Marys George Washington University University of Michigan Montgomery College – Takoma Santa Clara University Reed College Tufts University Trinity College Penn State Montgomery College BYU University of North Carolina – Charlotte University of Pennsylvania George Mason University American University Norfolk State University American University Sciller International University Yale University Montgomery College - Takoma Montgomery College Zion Bible College Schiller International University Montgomery College – Takoma Arizona State University Northeastern University Devry Crystal City University of Colorado University of Colorado NOVA - Alexandria Bowie State The Art Institute of Washington, D.C. Penn State Howard University Alleghany College of Maryland Bowie State University Indiana University of Pennsylvania University of Massachusetts- Amherst Montgomery College Millersville Marymount University Tufts University Trinity NOVA Manassas Montgomery College Montgomery College – Rockville Montgomery College Bowie State University of Wisconsin SMU DePaul University Montgomery College Barnard College William and Mary UDC VSU Bowie State Guilford College University of Tampa Florida A and M Georgetown University University of Maryland – College Park Montgomery College University of Pittsburgh Wesleyan University Tennessee State University Trinity College Weber State Cheyney University University of Miami Warren Wilson College UNC Chapel Hill Norfolk State University Eastern Carolina University North Carolina School of the Arts University of Connecticut Yale University Yale University Bowie State University UDC then Allegany George Washington University Dartmouth College VCU Montgomery College – Takoma Central State University Barber school Lawrence University University of Management Montgomery College - Rockville Guilford College Solomon William and Mary Central State University Trinity Montgomery College – Rockville American University Ohio Wesleyan University Morehouse College VSU University of Delaware Tufts University UDC University of Colorado at Boulder Princeton University St. Johns University Norfolk State University Montgomery College – Takoma Utah Valley State University Morgan State University UC – Berkley UDC George Mason University Miami International University of Art and Design Montgomery College Montgomery College Cerritos College Temple University Wake Forest University niversity of Michigan UMES College of Charleston [ Edited by Admin. to remove names ] |
Anonymous
| I got this off the school website last year, I haven't seen the Class of 2009's posted. |
Anonymous
This is so depressing AA Tenleytown homeowner parent of future Wilson student.here. My kid is bright, probably could make the top 20-15% . But not if there is an embittered white teacher blocking his path thinking a white kid should get the nod because they remind him of his niece or nephew or whatever. My god, this beyond scary. I wasn't expecting Yale but something decent-Williams, Trinity, Bowdoin, Tufts something like that. Gah. |
Anonymous
Wow! This is literally not half bad. Hah. So much for the rumors. I can see some of the racial breakdown along HBCU's --it;s a reasonable showing among better private and state schools. What a dope you be to stuggle with 30k a year at top three--their results when sorted for racial preference of some AA's for HBCU's are not significantly better--at least not to justify the strain paying that much tuition would put on our family of 5. Thank you. Thank you. 
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Anonymous
I don't know whether this will be more or less depressing for you, but the Reiner story is more complicated, especially when you look at the similar treatment of Siebens and Martel. All three have been highly successful AP teachers, all three are older white guys who have strong personalities. I've heard at least three versions of the story -- one is that they're threatening to the new principal who is eager to see them gone; another is that the new principal (pace Jay Matthews) wants more kids in AP, regardless of whether the kids themselves want to take AP, and these teachers don't want either to water down their classes or to try to teach a room full of kids where half want to be there and half don't; the last is a variation on the post you quoted which is the claim that the achievement gap is so great at Wilson because AP is pitched too high and too narrowly and that needs to be addressed. Bottom line, unless your DC is already in MS, it's going to be wait-and-see. All of these guys are old enough that they'd have been gone soon anyway, so your DC wouldn't have been affected. At which point the question becomes what/who replaces them and their AP classes. Does the gap get narrowed by lowering the top, expanding the top, raising the bottom, or does it just persist? My guess is some of each and then the question becomes can you live with it and where will your kid end up. Keep an eye on Walls as an option, though there are some indications that it's facing some of the issues. Much may depend on the new Chancellor and/or the principals. |