How is MacArthur HS?
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Anonymous
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How is MacArthur HS these days? I realize it is still very small.
Is violence/drug use similiar to JR HS? We are deciding if we buy within bounds. |
Anonymous
I’d strongly advise you to talk to parents with kids at JR and MacArthur. This forum is, for some reason, full of people with no direct knowledge who insist on posting as if they were parents or had firsthand knowledge. My kid went to JR, and while it definitely had issues, they weren’t in any was similar to the bizzarroworld invented by DCUM fiction writers pretending to be JR parents. |
Anonymous
+100 Never make a major decision, such as purchasing a house, based on what you read on DCUM. These schools have web sites and instagrams and student newspapers. They have clubs and teams with instagrams. They host open houses. JR has a regular “coffee with the principal” and I wouldn’t be surprised if MacArthur has something similar. Use non-anonymous sources. |
Anonymous
| Too much drugs outside and inside the school. |
Anonymous
Buy inbounds if you like the house/neighborhood. By the time your kid goes to HS, you may send to private school or a charter anyway. |
Anonymous
| My son is a Soph at MacArthur and we have been very pleased. It is a public school with public school challenges, but my son has been able to do many activities and sports and take a wide variety of AP Classes. The teachers are engaged and they do a lot to ensure that kids get to do the things they want to do and mold the school themselves. I've not regretted our decision. |
Anonymous
| Both of them are Full of drugs. A J.R. student was offering drugs at Chipotle. I don't even understand where they get the drugs to sell. The system at both schools is terrible. |
Anonymous
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I've done a tour during the school day and it just seems like a regular mix of DC teens.
It was troubling that there were a couple of kids roaming the halls being loud while classes were in session and no one was doing anything about it, but other than that I didn't spot any red flags. All the administrators and teachers that we met seemed genuinely engaged. |
Anonymous
What APs are open to sophomores? Any for 9th graders? |
Anonymous
AP World History, AP Human Geography and AP Pre Calc are the ones that my son took. There are ways to take more as a sophomore, but you need to work with the administration. As a Junior, there is AP Calc BC, AP US History, AP English, AP Psych and some others. Given the size, there are quite a few options for APs as well as a new program where there are college courses from GW that will be offered in class. I don't have a ton of info on that, but it seems interesting. |
Anonymous
LOL. At a fast food restaurant 9 blocks from the school, PP determined that the person “offering drugs” was a JR student. Got it. |
Anonymous
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Never make a major decision, such as purchasing a house, based on what you read on DCUM. These schools have web sites and instagrams and student newspapers. They have clubs and teams with instagrams. They host open houses. JR has a regular “coffee with the principal” and I wouldn’t be surprised if MacArthur has something similar. Use non-anonymous sources.
I disagree to a certain extent. I’ve worked in DCPS for the last 12 years. The instagrams and websites don’t tell you the intricate details of what’s really going on inside of these buildings and neither do the principals. |
Anonymous
| Bi From what we've seen lately, both are the same...kids around schools without any supervision and escaping to smoke. |
Anonymous
| AP Kennedy is fantastic! |