Where's the list Kaya?

[Anonymous]

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The randomness of charter spaces can translate to logistical nightmares or sometimes perfect scenarios -- dropping your kid off at a great school a few doors from work or right on the wayis the dream for all of us, no?

Agreed. We're in Ward 4 driving to a downtown charter. Parking and navigating through the crowded street is nuts. Love the school, but it's better suited for those who can walk to the location. Wishing we could have a viable option for public e.s. in our neighborhood.

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15:36, listen honey, what was in the power point is not what has been discussed as options to the constituents at Roosevelt. Snarky is not the fragance of the day, sweetie.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know more details about SWW? Sounds just like DCPS __ screw up a good program by making changes without thinking them all the way through.

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Anonymous wrote:Boundaries and feeders schools will not have to change. Did they change when 26 schools were closed earlier? Stop saying that 6th grader will go to Roosevelt, the plan is to make Roosevelt-McFarland a campus with both schools having separate buildings but one agenda. This is just like when it was decided to rid the system of the Junior Highs and develop middle schools and all of sudden the cry of "my babies!!!" Here we are decades later and the outcry are the same "my babies"

Well, isn't that because decades later, no real progress has been made, and the system is still dangerous for our babies?

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Anonymous wrote:Well that power point blows the myth of the babyboom out of the water. Maybe in some areas it looks like it but city as a whole? Down, way down.

The "baby boom" kids aren't 5 years old yet. How many age 0-4 kids are about to hit the system I wonder?

Well that, and let's be honest - how many low-income families have fled to PG and parts of Montgomery counties as more DC neighborhoods are gentrified? My take is that these kids have been replaced with the kids of higher-income families that are buying expensive property in DC.

That describes the Bloomingdale/LeDroit/Shaw/Eckington baby boomlet perfectly. However, none of those new families support the local DCPS schools. The surrounding DCPS schools continue to close from our collective distrust and lack of interest. The charter options continue to expand and fill themselves with children from our neighborhoods. Every Spring a few anxious parents post something on the neighborhood email groups, trying to recruit a set of parents to make the jump together. It hasn't worked yet, and why would it? Who wants a failed DCPS with miserable scores, lousy school culture, disinterested students, etc. when you can enroll your child in a brand new charter with fresh ideas? First it was Two Rivers and Haynes, then LAMB, then Yu Ying, then Mundo Verde and Inspired Teaching, then Creative Minds, and next up will surely be Sela. All of them seem like choices better than anything this side of the park. The young families with high expectations in my neighborhood look around at all the many options that others have selected from just a year or two before them, and completely reject the local DCPS. Why would that change? Really, what about consolidating schools that nobody wants anyway, would make that dynamic change?

[Anonymous]

With so many local DCPS schools closing, all the kids you are running away from will wind up at these charters sooner or later.

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local DCPS schools closing, all the kids you are running away from will wind up at these charters sooner or later.

Not sure you are right. Perhaps you and Washington Teachers' Union are thinking that the teachers from the failing schools will end up at charters. Not sure that is right either.

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Anonymous wrote:With so many local DCPS schools closing, all the kids you are running away from will wind up at these charters sooner or later.

Not sure you are right. Perhaps you and Washington Teachers' Union are thinking that the teachers from the failing schools will end up at charters. Not sure that is right either.

Why would the charters hire those teachers?? They're not shackled to the WTU, they have no obligation to make their little children shoulder the burden of these drudges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well that power point blows the myth of the babyboom out of the water. Maybe in some areas it looks like it but city as a whole? Down, way down.

The "baby boom" kids aren't 5 years old yet. How many age 0-4 kids are about to hit the system I wonder?

Well that, and let's be honest - how many low-income families have fled to PG and parts of Montgomery counties as more DC neighborhoods are gentrified? My take is that these kids have been replaced with the kids of higher-income families that are buying expensive property in DC.

That describes the Bloomingdale/LeDroit/Shaw/Eckington baby boomlet perfectly. However, none of those new families support the local DCPS schools. The surrounding DCPS schools continue to close from our collective distrust and lack of interest. The charter options continue to expand and fill themselves with children from our neighborhoods. Every Spring a few anxious parents post something on the neighborhood email groups, trying to recruit a set of parents to make the jump together. It hasn't worked yet, and why would it? Who wants a failed DCPS with miserable scores, lousy school culture, disinterested students, etc. when you can enroll your child in a brand new charter with fresh ideas? First it was Two Rivers and Haynes, then LAMB, then Yu Ying, then Mundo Verde and Inspired Teaching, then Creative Minds, and next up will surely be Sela. All of them seem like choices better than anything this side of the park. The young families with high expectations in my neighborhood look around at all the many options that others have selected from just a year or two before them, and completely reject the local DCPS. Why would that change? Really, what about consolidating schools that nobody wants anyway, would make that dynamic change?

This describes the Garrison / Seaton consolidation well. Combining two struggling under enrolled schools serving largely OOB FARM saves DCPS money but won't change anything else. If they want support from parents and teachers DCPS needs to outline plans for investing in the newly consolidated schools. Otherwise it's just a case of same shit bigger bucket.

[Anonymous]

Just saw this post. Why do people call her Kaya? I never heard anyone refer to Michelle Rhee as Michelle! Rhee yes, Michelle never!

[Anonymous]

The subject seems to be sarcastic......

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Anonymous wrote:Kaya said Spingarn will be a trade school of some sort.

OK...

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Anonymous wrote:Who wants a failed DCPS with miserable scores, lousy school culture, disinterested students, etc. when you can enroll your child in a brand new charter with fresh ideas? First it was Two Rivers and Haynes, then LAMB, then Yu Ying, then Mundo Verde and Inspired Teaching, then Creative Minds, and next up will surely be Sela. All of them seem like choices better than anything this side of the park.

Wow - you've clearly done your homework. Not all of the charters you've listed are that impressive, and some compete with superior dcps elementary options on 'this side of the park'. But please -- go the shiny and new, even if it has no outside space and operates in a church basement for 3 years while looking for a permanent home.

[Anonymous]

My gawd, Kaya is her name, the position she holds is the Chancellor, it is not a title. You're right people didn't say Michelle it was Rhee and Fenty. Henderson and Gray doesn't have the same ring.

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Anonymous wrote:Amidon-Bowen dodged a bullet. I was sure they would close. I think the only reason they didn't is there isn't another elementary school close by (the Hill schools don't have that much space, Van Ness isn't opening any time soon, and Thompson is pretty far away).

That and Amidon just went through a 5 million dollar remodel and the enrollemen went up by about 50 kids. We'll see if that trend continues next year or not.

It would be pretty sad to sink that kind of money into a school only to then close it but then DCPS's done some pretty counterintitutive things in the past.