Where's the list Kaya?

[Anonymous]

Amidon-Bowen is the ONLY, non charter public school in SW. No bullet dodged, you simply have to leave an option open. And the demographics of the area are changing, rapidly.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I meant to say public, non charter elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Patterson ES's also in Southwest but it's over near the bolling air force base near Oxon Hill.

[Anonymous]

the demographics of SW are changing a lot faster than the demographics of Amidon-Bowen. I live in the neighborhood and would love to send kids there one day but am still up in the air about whether that is feasible. And I am doing more than reading here to both figure out what type of school it is and make it stronger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

???? Your rationale is quite lame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

???? Your rationale is quite lame.

You're over-thinking it. If you've ever played on any kind of competitive team, you know that players call each other by the shortest name possible, preferably a clever or memorable one.

Rhee, yes. Henderson, no. That's it.

[Anonymous]

No, she's Kaya girrrrrl, in her very own words.

“People keep asking me how I’m different from Michelle Rhee. I’m different than her because she’s a petite Asian woman and I’m a large black girl,” Henderson told The Washington Examiner.

Rhee was a joke. Kaya is both literally and figuratively a bigger joke.

And she is, most definitely, not competitive when it comes to leadership of urban schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the demographics of SW are changing a lot faster than the demographics of Amidon-Bowen. I live in the neighborhood and would love to send kids there one day but am still up in the air about whether that is feasible. And I am doing more than reading here to both figure out what type of school it is and make it stronger.

So I live in SW too, just a stones throw from Amidon. And I agree that the school is not a right fit for us yet, but soon enough the community will warrant a new school culture. Not sure that people on this board are also not doing more than 'reading here'. Not sure who you are taking issue with and why you would assume that those of us who care/talk about DCPS only talk.

[Anonymous]

It is not what they call her it is what she will answer too?

[Anonymous]

I work at Amidon. I'd recomend coming to visit the school becuase you can learn more with your own two eyes than you will on DCUM (it's not like the school gets dicussed much on here). I would especially recomend visiting a early childhood classroom (Kindergarten on down) because the tools program is very strong in our school.

And while I can understand why parents might be reluctant to send their children to this school, a culture doesn't change magically by shifting demographics. It changes when parents enroll their children in the school and contibutes to the school culture.

[Anonymous]

Err Tools of the Mind Program...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at Amidon. I'd recomend coming to visit the school becuase you can learn more with your own two eyes than you will on DCUM (it's not like the school gets dicussed much on here). I would especially recomend visiting a early childhood classroom (Kindergarten on down) because the tools program is very strong in our school.

And while I can understand why parents might be reluctant to send their children to this school, a culture doesn't change magically by shifting demographics. It changes when parents enroll their children in the school and contibutes to the school culture.

Or, it changes in the way the culture of the school 'changed' at Tyler ES in Cap Hill. Spanish Immersion was rolled in for the white kids and the rest of the students were left out.

[Anonymous]

Tyler still has only a quarter of its students testing on grade level. Big problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at Amidon. I'd recomend coming to visit the school becuase you can learn more with your own two eyes than you will on DCUM (it's not like the school gets dicussed much on here). I would especially recomend visiting a early childhood classroom (Kindergarten on down) because the tools program is very strong in our school.

And while I can understand why parents might be reluctant to send their children to this school, a culture doesn't change magically by shifting demographics. It changes when parents enroll their children in the school and contibutes to the school culture.

I am not generally a grammar stickler and cut people lots of slack, but truly when a person who works ( teaches?) At a school makes multiple spelling/grammar errors, it makes me think twice about the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tyler still has only a quarter of its students testing on grade level. Big problems.

Agreed. But you can rest assured that Tyler will never end up on a school closing list, even though its in the lowest 40 performing schools in the district and has low scores. So yes, part of the list was closing underenrolled/low performing schools- but you would be foolish to not understand how much geography and white students played into the mix.