International Baccalaureate at Eastern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It has a lot to do with choices of high schools for parents. It's one thing for the top AA students at Banneker or Eastern to score in the 600s on SATs, which most seem to do, another thing altogether for my Asian children (with a distinctively Asian surname). No reason for them to apply to elite college without 700s - they'll surely be rejected out of hand. If a DCPS HS doesn't have a track record of delivering high SAT scores, much better for us to look at BASIS, privates or the burbs.

If your Asain kid can garner high SAT scores at Basis, private, the burbs, your Asian kid can score them at Banneker. BTW, it was a Asian girl from Banneker who earned a Gates scholarship last year. It appears that not all Asians have bought in to the white is greater mentality and we must flock to them to exceed.

[Anonymous]

I'm amused that there appears to be just one Eastern booster, who is easily identified by her terrible grammar and syntax. I wonder if she went to Eastern? If so, not a great advertisement for the education there.

How well do these kids from Eastern and Banneker do at college once they get there? It is really shockingly easy to get into a decent school if you are an average, poor, minority student. The colleges lower their academic standards significantly for certain populations. But is their DCPS education solid enough to allow them to graduate in 4 years with no remedial coursework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It has a lot to do with choices of high schools for parents. It's one thing for the top AA students at Banneker or Eastern to score in the 600s on SATs, which most seem to do, another thing altogether for my Asian children (with a distinctively Asian surname). No reason for them to apply to elite college without 700s - they'll surely be rejected out of hand. If a DCPS HS doesn't have a track record of delivering high SAT scores, much better for us to look at BASIS, privates or the burbs.

If your Asain kid can garner high SAT scores at Basis, private, the burbs, your Asian kid can score them at Banneker. BTW, it was a Asian girl from Banneker who earned a Gates scholarship last year. It appears that not all Asians have bought in to the white is greater mentality and we must flock to them to exceed.

The two 2014 Gates scholars from Banneker were black males. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dcs-banneker-high-produces-two-gates-millenium-scholars/2014/06/16/c67fb140-f583-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html There were also students from SWW and Thurgood Marshall Academy, but neither appeared to be an Asian female.

Two 2015 Gates scholars from DC were also male, one from Ethiopia and one from El Salvador. Both attended CHEC: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-friends-win-gates-scholarships-will-have-college-costs-covered/2015/04/30/bbbbf8a2-ef58-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html and there were also 2015 winners from Coolidge, Woodson, Thurgood Marshall, Ellington, E.L. Haynes (based on solely on name, this person appears to be Asian).

I do agree that a kid who would score a 700 at Wilson would also do it at Eastern, and might have an interesting story to tell. Kid would have to be driven, and parents might have to work hard to help their kid obtain certain opportunities (science research) and if the school doesn't participate in certain team events like It's Academic or Model UN than those wouldn't be options. But there's enough to do at Eastern--and in the DC metro area--that a very focused kid with very supportive parents could do very well in college admissions after attending Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Oh I get it now, there's no need for Eastern to improve, or to better serve its catchment area now or at any point down the track. The school is simply wonderful as is. Fantastic! Thank you so much for enlightening us all on the subject. Who knew, a high-performing HS right in our backyard.

I repeat, pointless and tiring. DCPS could clearly care less which bums fill seats at Eastern, as long as the bucks per capita continue to roll in. That may change once political heads start to roll over Ward 6 schools issues, maybe 15 years from now. Until then, hang in there, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amused that there appears to be just one Eastern booster, who is easily identified by her terrible grammar and syntax. I wonder if she went to Eastern? If so, not a great advertisement for the education there.

How well do these kids from Eastern and Banneker do at college once they get there? It is really shockingly easy to get into a decent school if you are an average, poor, minority student. The colleges lower their academic standards significantly for certain populations. But is their DCPS education solid enough to allow them to graduate in 4 years with no remedial coursework?

1. Stop being so lazy in this world of easy access to info. The Banneker kids do well in college, most graduating in 4 years.
2. You're crazy to think college acceptances are handed out to anyone today. Poor, black or otherwise. And you're insane to believe. That standards are soooo relaxed for certain populations that acceptance is a given. Even if acceptances were being given out like cars at the Oprah show, companies are not doling out 10s of millions in scholarship $ to mediocre students.
3. Accept it: DC kids can and do succeed without gentrifiers. These are hardworking kids who deserve every commendation and scholarship dollar they earn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amused that there appears to be just one Eastern booster, who is easily identified by her terrible grammar and syntax. I wonder if she went to Eastern? If so, not a great advertisement for the education there.

How well do these kids from Eastern and Banneker do at college once they get there? It is really shockingly easy to get into a decent school if you are an average, poor, minority student. The colleges lower their academic standards significantly for certain populations. But is their DCPS education solid enough to allow them to graduate in 4 years with no remedial coursework?

1. Stop being so lazy in this world of easy access to info. The Banneker kids do well in college, most graduating in 4 years.
2. You're crazy to think college acceptances are handed out to anyone today. Poor, black or otherwise. And you're insane to believe. That standards are soooo relaxed for certain populations that acceptance is a given. Even if acceptances were being given out like cars at the Oprah show, companies are not doling out 10s of millions in scholarship $ to mediocre students.
3. Accept it: DC kids can and do succeed without gentrifiers. These are hardworking kids who deserve every commendation and scholarship dollar they earn.

All of Banneker students graduate college. And they enter without remediation. Remember, these are AP, IB college bound students who must apply and test in.
Banneker does a wonderful job tracking the college graduation rates of their students. Banneker kids are just as successful as any other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I get it now, there's no need for Eastern to improve, or to better serve its catchment area now or at any point down the track. The school is simply wonderful as is. Fantastic! Thank you so much for enlightening us all on the subject. Who knew, a high-performing HS right in our backyard.

I repeat, pointless and tiring. DCPS could clearly care less which bums fill seats at Eastern, as long as the bucks per capita continue to roll in. That may change once political heads start to roll over Ward 6 schools issues, maybe 15 years from now. Until then, hang in there, folks.

It appears to me that many gentrifiers want DCPS to kiss their asses & roll out a red carpet for them.

Not gonna happen.

Why not?

Because DC is concerned about
1. Bringing schools up to par for ALL kids to attend.
2. The urgency is for those currently (forced) in the schools.
3. Kids of gentrifiers have options & will be fine wherever they go. Someone's already said "Well to the suburbs or private we go!" DCPS says "Byeeeee! Now let us continue our efforts at improving schools for all."

DC does not consider the gentrifiers as necessary for schools to improve. However, they view their attendance as proof that improvements are being made. Two very different things.

So, stop lying to yourself about your importance to DCPS. The system has been nearly 100% black since the beginning of time. No one would blink if that never changes. The question has always been: How do we truly serve and educate those (black) kids? If other races join the schools, fine! We can't stop them but we don't need to recruit them either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It has a lot to do with choices of high schools for parents. It's one thing for the top AA students at Banneker or Eastern to score in the 600s on SATs, which most seem to do, another thing altogether for my Asian children (with a distinctively Asian surname). No reason for them to apply to elite college without 700s - they'll surely be rejected out of hand. If a DCPS HS doesn't have a track record of delivering high SAT scores, much better for us to look at BASIS, privates or the burbs.

If your Asain kid can garner high SAT scores at Basis, private, the burbs, your Asian kid can score them at Banneker. BTW, it was a Asian girl from Banneker who earned a Gates scholarship last year. It appears that not all Asians have bought in to the white is greater mentality and we must flock to them to exceed.

Why the obsession with a school's SAT scores? That would be one of the last things I worried about, as SAT scores are so individual and based on the individual child's efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're at YY and can tell you no one has ever mentioned Eastern HS as an alternative to DCI. Eastern does not offer Mandarin.

We will not be continuing to DCI but are only looking at private schools that offer advanced Mandarin.

This poster. Wanted to add that we will be moving out of the area. If you want your kid to continue in Mandarin like us who have invested 7yrs in a Mandarin immersion school, there aren't any alternatives to DCI unless you move.

You meant "like WE who have invested" - because US didn't invest in anything.

Subject pronoun vs. object pronoun.

Don't let your self-satisfaction regarding Mandarin delude you into thinking you can actually speak proper English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're at YY and can tell you no one has ever mentioned Eastern HS as an alternative to DCI. Eastern does not offer Mandarin.

We will not be continuing to DCI but are only looking at private schools that offer advanced Mandarin.

This poster. Wanted to add that we will be moving out of the area. If you want your kid to continue in Mandarin like us who have invested 7yrs in a Mandarin immersion school, there aren't any alternatives to DCI unless you move.

You meant "like WE who have invested" - because US didn't invest in anything.

Subject pronoun vs. object pronoun.

Don't let your self-satisfaction regarding Mandarin delude you into thinking you can actually speak proper English.

Perhaps PP's Mandarin is better than her English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be interesting to see how DCPS and the politicians react when the in-boundary percentage at the rebooted Eastern starts to drop, and continues to drop for years to come. They seem to have tunnel vision on the issue, with the in-boundary percentage currently a reassuring 63%. Flash forward six or eight years, and few of us on the Hill be surprised to see an in-boundary percentage at Eastern in the 30s or 40s. You just don't hear gentrifiers who pay close attention to what's going on in public schools, talking about planning to use Eastern, even if their kids are little. Meanwhile, Wilson's in boundary percentage, which has ticked up into the high 50s, seems set to rise year after year, into the 60s, 70s and 80s....

What does Wilson offer that Eastern does not? Other than higher SES cohort, are not the subjects the same at both schools. It appears that Eastern offers more, with both AP and IB. Therefore, it must be the majority/minority that turns you away. What should DCPS do with these brown and black kids to make the white parents comfortable sending their kiddies there? Perhaps ship them all across the river so that you can be comfortable.

Are you kidding us with this post PP??? Higher SES cohort is of primary importance in DC. That's like saying two chairs are the same except for the fact that one of them (Wilson) has 4 legs instead of 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be interesting to see how DCPS and the politicians react when the in-boundary percentage at the rebooted Eastern starts to drop, and continues to drop for years to come. They seem to have tunnel vision on the issue, with the in-boundary percentage currently a reassuring 63%. Flash forward six or eight years, and few of us on the Hill be surprised to see an in-boundary percentage at Eastern in the 30s or 40s. You just don't hear gentrifiers who pay close attention to what's going on in public schools, talking about planning to use Eastern, even if their kids are little. Meanwhile, Wilson's in boundary percentage, which has ticked up into the high 50s, seems set to rise year after year, into the 60s, 70s and 80s....

What does Wilson offer that Eastern does not? Other than higher SES cohort, are not the subjects the same at both schools. It appears that Eastern offers more, with both AP and IB. Therefore, it must be the majority/minority that turns you away. What should DCPS do with these brown and black kids to make the white parents comfortable sending their kiddies there? Perhaps ship them all across the river so that you can be comfortable.

Are you kidding us with this post PP??? Higher SES cohort is of primary importance in DC. That's like saying two chairs are the same except for the fact that one of them (Wilson) has 4 legs instead of 2.

You're self-deluded. Higher SES cohort is of primary importance in your mind alone.

Please tell me what DCPS has done to make 'you'/those of higher SES believe they are of primary importance to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh I get it now, there's no need for Eastern to improve, or to better serve its catchment area now or at any point down the track. The school is simply wonderful as is. Fantastic! Thank you so much for enlightening us all on the subject. Who knew, a high-performing HS right in our backyard.

I repeat, pointless and tiring. DCPS could clearly care less which bums fill seats at Eastern, as long as the bucks per capita continue to roll in. That may change once political heads start to roll over Ward 6 schools issues, maybe 15 years from now. Until then, hang in there, folks.

It appears to me that many gentrifiers want DCPS to kiss their asses & roll out a red carpet for them.

Not gonna happen.

Why not?

Because DC is concerned about
1. Bringing schools up to par for ALL kids to attend.
2. The urgency is for those currently (forced) in the schools.
3. Kids of gentrifiers have options & will be fine wherever they go. Someone's already said "Well to the suburbs or private we go!" DCPS says "Byeeeee! Now let us continue our efforts at improving schools for all."

DC does not consider the gentrifiers as necessary for schools to improve. However, they view their attendance as proof that improvements are being made. Two very different things.

So, stop lying to yourself about your importance to DCPS. The system has been nearly 100% black since the beginning of time. No one would blink if that never changes. The question has always been: How do we truly serve and educate those (black) kids? If other races join the schools, fine! We can't stop them but we don't need to recruit them either.

You are 100% correct: but don't leave out that the DCPS school system that keeps asking "how do we truly serve and educate ( black ) kids " has failed miserably at it for decades now and continues to ask and have no good answers to that question. Yes, yes there are bright spots and bright students but the VAST MAJORITY have been failed by and even abused by the system for generations now. There is no benefit from hiding this truth. Perhaps it DOES need a student population from a wide range of economic backgrounds tonbeninbthe system for improvement but DCPS is too stupid to know it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Are you kidding us with this post PP??? Higher SES cohort is of primary importance in DC. That's like saying two chairs are the same except for the fact that one of them (Wilson) has 4 legs instead of 2.

FTFY: Higher SES cohort is of primary importance in DC for elitists who care about their kids not associating with "riff raff"

don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh I get it now, there's no need for Eastern to improve, or to better serve its catchment area now or at any point down the track. The school is simply wonderful as is. Fantastic! Thank you so much for enlightening us all on the subject. Who knew, a high-performing HS right in our backyard.

I repeat, pointless and tiring. DCPS could clearly care less which bums fill seats at Eastern, as long as the bucks per capita continue to roll in. That may change once political heads start to roll over Ward 6 schools issues, maybe 15 years from now. Until then, hang in there, folks.

It appears to me that many gentrifiers want DCPS to kiss their asses & roll out a red carpet for them.

Not gonna happen.

Why not?

Because DC is concerned about
1. Bringing schools up to par for ALL kids to attend.
2. The urgency is for those currently (forced) in the schools.
3. Kids of gentrifiers have options & will be fine wherever they go. Someone's already said "Well to the suburbs or private we go!" DCPS says "Byeeeee! Now let us continue our efforts at improving schools for all."

DC does not consider the gentrifiers as necessary for schools to improve. However, they view their attendance as proof that improvements are being made. Two very different things.

So, stop lying to yourself about your importance to DCPS. The system has been nearly 100% black since the beginning of time. No one would blink if that never changes. The question has always been: How do we truly serve and educate those (black) kids? If other races join the schools, fine! We can't stop them but we don't need to recruit them either.

You are 100% correct: but don't leave out that the DCPS school system that keeps asking "how do we truly serve and educate ( black ) kids " has failed miserably at it for decades now and continues to ask and have no good answers to that question. Yes, yes there are bright spots and bright students but the VAST MAJORITY have been failed by and even abused by the system for generations now. There is no benefit from hiding this truth. Perhaps it DOES need a student population from a wide range of economic backgrounds tonbeninbthe system for improvement but DCPS is too stupid to know it.

You are also 100% correct: DCPS has been failing kids miserably for decades. They're starting to try to improve the system, have made some inroads but still have a long way to go.

But none of that means that having students of other races in the schools will suddenly improve schools and make them better for the poor darkies. If it were that easy, DCPS would've started a recruiting campaign years ago.

You really seem to overestimate your importance (race, SES) in this school thing. Truth is, no one cares if you head to the burbs or privates. Most secretly applaud you because frankly we do the same and/or don't blame you.