Whose happy with Jackson Reed this year. Considering new Macarthur school.

[Anonymous]

Please note I am already well-versed in the DCUM threads on the new principal at Macarthur and know the pluses and minus. I don't know too much about Jackson Reed though.

[Anonymous]

Could you be a little more specific? J-R has over 2000 kids. Mine is happy, athlete, B student, 1 AP, doing just fine. I’m sure that would make many on this list head for MD. And many others have different kids with different interests. So maybe let us know what you are looking for and we can offer more info.

[Anonymous]

9th grade at JR is lame. Very little work.
My daughter says it is easier than 8th grade at Deal which already was super easy.
I imagine the new MacArthur school won’t be any different though

[Anonymous]

Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

No, opposite is true. When anyone that does anything gets As then it's very hard on admissions. Friend's kids who are seniors are finding this to be the case.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

A small group might benefit in admissions. No one benefits in actual learning or college preparation.

Yet another way that DCPS sacrifices education and the achievement of the hardest working students for the sake of optics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Do you want your kid to be bored in school or actually challenged?
Do you want them to learn something at school?
Only the AP classes are challenging at JR and that is assuming you have a good teacher.
My kid is taking AP Environmental Science this year and hasn’t had a teacher all year.
A really good math teacher was chased out last year by incompetent administration.
These are some of the problems you have to deal with at JR. Hard to know if the new HS will be better or not.
I keep hearing from friends at Walls that it is also slowly going downhill.
I don’t think DCPS is comfortable with anything better than mediocrity unfortunately

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

A small group might benefit in admissions. No one benefits in actual learning or college preparation.

Yet another way that DCPS sacrifices education and the achievement of the hardest working students for the sake of optics.

+1 million. And the kids are not prepare and struggle in college. The end goal is not getting easy A’s but being academically prepared for a much higher level playing field.

[Anonymous]

2 comments.
1. Some kids are prepared, just not motivated. My DS is still getting As at a top college, advanced classes, but does the minimum necessary.
2. J-R is still tons better than lots of DC schools so it will never improve because that just wouldn’t be fair. So mediocrity is the best DCPS can do.

[Anonymous]

FWIW Frederick is great. We'd love if some DC families would follow and are convincing our friends. Covid has hit schools hard. To be fair they were doing well pre-covid in many instances but this is what is happening around the country. Smaller schools are better equipt to manage all the social issues Covid has brought coupled with an overcrowded school system.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW Frederick is great. We'd love if some DC families would follow and are convincing our friends. Covid has hit schools hard. To be fair they were doing well pre-covid in many instances but this is what is happening around the country. Smaller schools are better equipt to manage all the social issues Covid has brought coupled with an overcrowded school system.

Fredneck? No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW Frederick is great. We'd love if some DC families would follow and are convincing our friends. Covid has hit schools hard. To be fair they were doing well pre-covid in many instances but this is what is happening around the country. Smaller schools are better equipt to manage all the social issues Covid has brought coupled with an overcrowded school system.

Why is it important to you to have more DC families in Frederick?

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW Frederick is great. We'd love if some DC families would follow and are convincing our friends. Covid has hit schools hard. To be fair they were doing well pre-covid in many instances but this is what is happening around the country. Smaller schools are better equipt to manage all the social issues Covid has brought coupled with an overcrowded school system.

Fredneck? No thanks.

Exactly... Some serious racial issues ..I'll pass