Is it true that starting from 2017-2018 Wilson HS won't offer honors classes in 9th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the Wilson principal and DCPS cares about are raising the scores of the lowest 25%. Despite trying all sorts of quick fixes, they are making zero progress even in this. Ultimately they need really strong teachers across the board to make a difference for all students but strangely they don't seem to care too much about or appreciate good teachers. By the way, AP scores across DCPS are horrendous, mostly 1s and 2s. Central office is a disaster and keeps coming up with hare-brained new initiatives just to show they are doing something.

Where are these scores published? Are they published anywhere by school?

[Anonymous]

A charter HS in NW would go a long way to getting all of these Wilson-worrying snowflakes out of DCPS's hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A charter HS in NW would go a long way to getting all of these Wilson-worrying snowflakes out of DCPS's hair.

FYI so that you don't embarrass yourself, no one thinks the snowflake thing is funny or interesting anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A charter HS in NW would go a long way to getting all of these Wilson-worrying snowflakes out of DCPS's hair.

FYI so that you don't embarrass yourself, no one thinks the snowflake thing is funny or interesting anymore.

Oh? What's the new buzzword for annoying, ignorantly privileged but well-educated smart person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A charter HS in NW would go a long way to getting all of these Wilson-worrying snowflakes out of DCPS's hair.

FYI so that you don't embarrass yourself, no one thinks the snowflake thing is funny or interesting anymore.

Oh? What's the new buzzword for annoying, ignorantly privileged but well-educated smart person?

I have not been following this thread - need to go back and read from the start - but I believe the word you are looking for is parents who care about their children's education? Its one thing to back seat drive, another to question educational policy choices that may be undermining what is at times and could be a very good school for children at all levels of current academic attainment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Race to the bottom.

You can't use the word (race) in the same sentence with negativity anymore. Take it back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A charter HS in NW would go a long way to getting all of these Wilson-worrying snowflakes out of DCPS's hair.

if they all left it would simply be like every other High school in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the Wilson principal and DCPS cares about are raising the scores of the lowest 25%. Despite trying all sorts of quick fixes, they are making zero progress even in this. Ultimately they need really strong teachers across the board to make a difference for all students but strangely they don't seem to care too much about or appreciate good teachers. By the way, AP scores across DCPS are horrendous, mostly 1s and 2s. Central office is a disaster and keeps coming up with hare-brained new initiatives just to show they are doing something.

Where are these scores published? Are they published anywhere by school?

They do get released to the school and to OSSE and state (district) level ones are posted by the College Board annually. Not sure where to find school by school but know it's released; it's how the Wash Post and US News prepare their rankings each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whats frightening is that they will want to extend this no-honors model to all grades.

I can't believe they would do that. I've never heard of a school that would break down an honors program into nothing. Source?

C'mon. This is happening nationwide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately all the Wilson principal and DCPS cares about are raising the scores of the lowest 25%. Despite trying all sorts of quick fixes, they are making zero progress even in this. Ultimately they need really strong teachers across the board to make a difference for all students but strangely they don't seem to care too much about or appreciate good teachers. By the way, AP scores across DCPS are horrendous, mostly 1s and 2s. Central office is a disaster and keeps coming up with hare-brained new initiatives just to show they are doing something.

They are not making zero progress. Look at Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Don't grades still differentiate students in these classes? They will have to provide additional support for some students to have a shot at doing well, but at the end of the day, there will probably be a lot of C's, fewer B's, and still fewer A's. Which is how the grade distribution is supposed to be, but I'll bet most honors classes now are mostly A's and B's.

[Anonymous]

Will the material studied be challenging and interesting? Will the discussions be rich? I think all children benfit from that. Just wondering if Wilson admin think so and will make sure that is the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the material studied be challenging and interesting? Will the discussions be rich? I think all children benfit from that. Just wondering if Wilson admin think so and will make sure that is the case.

Was the material challenging and interesting, spawning rich discussions before? It's 9th grade English and Biology. I have my doubts that this change will either devastating or amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the material studied be challenging and interesting? Will the discussions be rich? I think all children benfit from that. Just wondering if Wilson admin think so and will make sure that is the case.

Was the material challenging and interesting, spawning rich discussions before? It's 9th grade English and Biology. I have my doubts that this change will either devastating or amazing.

Clearly you've never experienced the difference between an advanced high school class and a "regular" one. I did. In the advanced class, students were paying attention and asking questions and taking notes. In the "regular" class, students were talking over the teacher, ogling each other, and passing notes. And the regular classes had a lot of cheating during tests (though I'm not sure how kids cheat these days with computer tests). The main point being that there is a canyon of difference between the two types of classes, and Wilson's management seems willfully ignorant of it.

[Anonymous]

The national pass rate for AP exams (scoring a 3 or higher) is around 58%. The AP pass rate for Wilson last year was 46%. It went up one point from the previous year. And I know because I provide support to Wilson.