Hill Middle Schools
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Anonymous
Don't feed the trolls. |
Anonymous
OMG!!!!! Can someone incredibly generous suggest a reading list for this person? |
Anonymous
Well it's a public school, so I have a few Supreme Court cases that you could read about how we're not allowed to treat school children differently based on their skin color... |
Anonymous
Is there a list of opportunities at Stuart-Hobson specifically? |
Anonymous
| This is ridiculous. This person has not named a single thing except generic "internships," which I have basically never heard of at the middle school level. This is extremely clearly a troll. |
Anonymous
Of course not. |
Anonymous
Really. You are going to enroll your UMC white kid at a majority-black school that is struggling to determine how to use its limited public resources in the wisest, most equitable and effective ways and then write sharply-worded emails and petitions citing Supreme Court cases against racial discrimination to make sure your white kid gets what they are owed under the law? Textbook. |
Anonymous
By "ideas" do you mean things like advanced classes for kids whose performance merits it? Expectations of good classroom management? People like you impose regressive policies in the name of protecting POC and "equity". What scares me is, I think PP is probably white! Black folks want rigorous academics. Black folks want kid in seats learning. Black folks want troublemakers the heck away from our kids. There exists in DC a vocal minority of "activists" that would rather prove some anti-gentrifier point than get black folks educated. It (and condescending white folks like you) make me sick. |
Anonymous
| The prior post was a response to an earlier post that gentrifiers are allegedly full-stop not welcome at neighborhood schools. |
Anonymous
| Georgetown law students coach Stuart Hobson's mock trial team so that's cool. |
Anonymous
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Many of us on the Hill would care less what the overall proficiency rate of a particular neighborhood middle school might be IF said program offered a full menu of well-taught, at-grade level classes for 6th-8th grades for science, math, social studies and English. Parents also want a full menu of above grade-level classes for 8th grade and foreign languages taught at appropriates levels for most students (with an opt out of policy for advanced language students receiving instruction outside of school).
With those academic offerings, supported by reasonable and transparent standards for admission to honors/intensified classes, IB parents would flock to those schools in short order. That's what would be "helpful." Anything less and most parents won't bite, indefinitely. Really no more to say. |
Anonymous
The Georgetown law assistant prof mom who brought the program to SH is a white gentrifier, so presumably not welcome. |
Anonymous
I agree with most of this, but think the weird focus some posters have on opting out of foreign languages if they get outside instruction is bizarre. Schools have no obligation to accommodate that and most parents don't care. |
Anonymous
| I occasionally think this board has some pro-school choice “trolls.”. Anything positive about traditional public schools or that some in-bound families might actually be choosing them over charters, it is ripped apart. |
Anonymous
This is all true. And has been true for at least the last 20 years that I've been paying attention. The problem is that standing up these classes and complete slate of foreign language offerings, likely for a small number of students at first, is really expensive. Where does that budget come from? Something else in the school must then lose resources--intervention and small-group instruction for struggling students? Special Ed support for students with IEPs? Coaches for extra curricular teams and activities? So if DCPS stands up these classes before they have the students to fill these classes, there is a loss somewhere. This is due to the per pupil funding model. Once the students are there, the money is there, and if there are enough students to fill the "needed" honors classes, there is then funding to hire the teachers, buy the curriculum, etc. How to solve this problem? I'm not sure. There are ways that have been suggested by parent groups in the past---change the funding model, secure outside foundation funding, hold on to high performing elementary cohorts in a K-8 model at their elementary school until there is a critical mass that then moves on to middle together, one pan-Ward 6 middle school that then has economy of scale to do it all, for example. But DCPS won't go there/can't go there. And it sort of makes sense when you realize the competing priorities of the system as a whole and the multitude of constituencies and the political climate |