New Wilson Principal and the Beacon paper
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Anonymous
| Teachers quit last minute. DCPS needs to change the policy. It happens at other schools too. |
Anonymous
What policy? |
Anonymous
| Seems they are short at least 3 teachers. But whether this is due to a cumbersome hiring policy, the budget cuts from earlier this year, or lack of timely registration of students is still unkown. Or it could simply be that noone was on top of hiring. I know one year, a chemistry class was completely screwed up due to a teacher quitting in the first weeks of school |
Anonymous
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Martin did a stupid thing by messing with the cohort that carries Wilson. If you think Wilson helps those kids you're crazy. It hurts them. Their parents make the difference. If they depart Wilson becomes another Ballou and then Principal Martin will have an excellent topic for her thesis.
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Anonymous
| Just got a more accurate count from a Wilson teacher--at least 740 freshmen. |
Anonymous
This is a great idea - I'll see if my DC can find friends in other classes. What I can't find though is a current teacher list....anyway the principal coffee next week should be fun. |
Anonymous
It's not 900 but more than I thought. I'm a Wilson parent and hadn't really been staying on top of the numbers. I always thought all the classes were roughly 500 students each. |
Anonymous
| senior class in the 300's, sophomores near 400 I think |
Anonymous
That's crazy, if true--about 50 percent more than expected, if I remember correctly from our tour that 450-500 freshman were expected. Where could all of those extra kids have come from? I thought Wilson stopped taking out-of-boundary students because of overcrowding? Even if an unprecedented number of in-boundary freshman came to Wilson from Latin, Basis, and private schools, it can't possibly account for this large a change. |
Anonymous
If you recall, last year the chancellor came out with a plan for ensuring attrition at Wilson--stuff related to not letting in siblings of OOB Wilson students, not allowing in students who aged out, and another new "policy" or two (can't recall now...maybe something to do with truancy?). I'm guessing these policies weren't put into place. AND if you do a little auditing, I wonder if it would review that some OOB students were allowed to enroll...DC is sort of infamous for its favors. |
Anonymous
I thought the sophomore class was around 460...but a jump of 300 students per year seems unreal, Deal JUST expanded, so it's not from there...Are all the charter and private schools empty??? |
jsteele
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The Post's Erik Wemple just weighed in on the Martin v. Beacon:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/08/31/d-c-principal-says-prior-newspaper-review-keeps-students-safe-and-protected/ I love his advice to the student journalists: "A piece of advice from the Erik Wemple Blog to the staff of the Wilson Beacon: Get busy. Write 40 articles a day; cover everything from that huge pool to the traffic outside to the bus stop to the offerings at that high-priced grocery story around the corner. Send it all to Martin, each update in its own e-mail. Include deadlines for the principal to sign off. Pressure her if she doesn’t meet her deadlines. Call her cellphone, her home phone. If she wants this job, in other words, she can have it." |
Anonymous
| the students likely won't have any phone numbers for Ms Martin other than the office number. |
Anonymous
But if she misses a deadline the students should be able to go to print. |
Anonymous
depends on how her instructions are worded 'go ahead unless I tell you to stop' vs 'don't publish without my OK' |