Today's Post OpEd from DCPS consultants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does this plan do to a school like Tubman? It is one of only two DCPS schools city-wide with an Economically Disadvantaged all-students subgroup that exceeded 70% on the 2013 DC-CAS (the other being Hyde-Addison). That "subgroup" pretty much represents the entire school, which has very few OOB seats available in the early grades. If this plan is implemented, will higher SES families in the "controlled-choice" zone seek enrollment, supplanting seats from the low-SES IB families currently excelling there? Is that a good thing?

meant to specify that those are math scores, their reading score was 62.7%, treding upwards, but obviously still well below their 78.8% math score (which surpasses that subgroup's performance at Deal, albeit different grade levels).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about we take 50% of the WOTP kids and 50% of the EOTR kids and have them switch schools.

Tada!

genius!

I shall write a WaPo article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about we take 50% of the WOTP kids and 50% of the EOTR kids and have them switch schools.

Tada!

genius!

I shall write a WaPo article.

..about Petrilli's Bethesda and Montgomery County schools...

[Anonymous]

Ms Henderson's tweet was

"Interesting & provocative ideas fr @MichaelPetrilli @samchaltain @RickKahlenberg on integrated schools in #DC http://washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dc-schools-can-ward-off-the-big-flip/2014/01/24/90548788-8479-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html "

I wouldn't exactly call that an endorsement.

[Anonymous]

It wasn't interesting, it was an asinine article that showed no understanding of how the world actually works. This idea will have middle class families fleeing the city pronto.

[Anonymous]

The best way to deal with DCPS's issues, if they have no ideas of their own, is to encourage strong Charter contenders to set up shop in the most educationally deprived areas of DC, by making closed or failing school buildings available. Then children with no vibrant choices will have options, and not options too far away to be noticed by their 'community'.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand, though...are these authors being paid by some think tank or are they doing this as a freebie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, PP. You just went on a tear with your flurry of responses yet you totally made an ass of yourself on reading comprehension.

Go back and look what it says: "a large percentage of non-FARMS families didn't even come from DC originally" and here you understood that to mean it was talking about FARMS.

LOL!

Completely my bad!!!!!! It's not excuse, but everytime I log on to the DC thread I see subtle racists comments and was thinking this was the same. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ms Henderson's tweet was

"Interesting & provocative ideas fr @MichaelPetrilli @samchaltain @RickKahlenberg on integrated schools in #DC http://washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dc-schools-can-ward-off-the-big-flip/2014/01/24/90548788-8479-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html "

I wouldn't exactly call that an endorsement.

+1, thanks for posting the tweet. I don't see where she says she agrees with their ideas. For all we know it was her way of politely acknowledging an article was written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ms Henderson's tweet was

"Interesting & provocative ideas fr @MichaelPetrilli @samchaltain @RickKahlenberg on integrated schools in #DC http://washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dc-schools-can-ward-off-the-big-flip/2014/01/24/90548788-8479-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html "

I wouldn't exactly call that an endorsement.

Provocative, yes.

"Interesting" as in the Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, PP. You just went on a tear with your flurry of responses yet you totally made an ass of yourself on reading comprehension.

Go back and look what it says: "a large percentage of non-FARMS families didn't even come from DC originally" and here you understood that to mean it was talking about FARMS.

LOL!

Completely my bad!!!!!! It's not excuse, but everytime I log on to the DC thread I see subtle racists comments and was thinking this was the same. Sorry!

Adding. I do still think I was offended by this statement:

Plus, I question the value of being close to family when it's that family who put you in the situation of multigenerational poverty in the first place, and who is not helping you out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ms Henderson's tweet was

"Interesting & provocative ideas fr @MichaelPetrilli @samchaltain @RickKahlenberg on integrated schools in #DC http://washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dc-schools-can-ward-off-the-big-flip/2014/01/24/90548788-8479-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html "

I wouldn't exactly call that an endorsement.

+1, thanks for posting the tweet. I don't see where she says she agrees with their ideas. For all we know it was her way of politely acknowledging an article was written.

I wish she had been as strong as Scott Pearson:

@SDPearson: @MichaelPetrilli @samchaltain @dcpcsb weighted lotteries are a solution in search of a problem-All but one dc charters are >=40% low income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, PP. You just went on a tear with your flurry of responses yet you totally made an ass of yourself on reading comprehension.

Go back and look what it says: "a large percentage of non-FARMS families didn't even come from DC originally" and here you understood that to mean it was talking about FARMS.

LOL!

Completely my bad!!!!!! It's not excuse, but everytime I log on to the DC thread I see subtle racists comments and was thinking this was the same. Sorry!

Adding. I do still think I was offended by this statement:

Plus, I question the value of being close to family when it's that family who put you in the situation of multigenerational poverty in the first place, and who is not helping you out of it.

Why is that offensive? Lots of families have dysfunction. If a family situation is dysfunctional, if you want to escape the vicious cycle of that dysfunctionality, it may be better to get out of it altogether. Personally I don't miss some of the daily drama I've had in my own family life and I'd rather deal with it on my own terms rather than not having any choice.

[Anonymous]

Weird to see Petrilli proposing this. Fordham has been a strong backer of charters, yet this would essentially undermine the charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird to see Petrilli proposing this. Fordham has been a strong backer of charters, yet this would essentially undermine the charters.

In addition to his book, he also penned a blog posting in their newsletter that suggested that higher SES families could do more to benefit lower SES families in their IB school but not enrolling there at all, and finding a better fit at a charter or other school. Rationale being that, higher SES parents might push more "progressive" educational approaches on the school which could undermine its efforts to deliver more "back to basics" and other approaches catered to lower SES families. This new push for diverisyt in neighborhood schools seems to contradict his earlier post.