Jackson-Reed home visits for eligibility verification

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

You first. If your school isn't Jackson Reed. If it is, your opinion is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

You first. If your school isn't Jackson Reed. If it is, your opinion is irrelevant.

My kids are at their assigned MS, and will go to their assigned HS, not J-R.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Found what? I’m not a high school address cheater; we’re heading to Walls. But we have old friends in Ward 6 who are renting tiny NW apts to get access to J-R in desperation. No idea about home visits but they seem to do this easily enough. No way are they going to live in their cramped NW rentals. Fair enough.

No, not fair enough. I am in Ward 6 and not interested in putting my fed job and law license on the line by engaging in fraud just to send my kid to JR. I am also not interested in forcing an hour+ commute on my kid, and crippling his social life by living half a city away from his classmates. Stop acting like a victim. I chose to live in W6 fully understanding the school situation and don’t need to do underhanded and stupid things to cope.

. Bully for you, Ward6 moral stalwart. We need more Boy Scout types like you in this degenerate town. Other DC taxpayers make different choices. I’m not prepared to judge friends who rent a pied de terre in NW for JR, or out them for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

And what makes a school decent? Several neighborhood high schools in DC have great facilities, great teachers, plenty of sports, plenty of extracurricular opportunities. If you think they are not "decent", it's probably because they lack a sizable cohort of academically strong students.

Do you have a different (magical?) solution to making an additional high school "decent"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

And what makes a school decent? Several neighborhood high schools in DC have great facilities, great teachers, plenty of sports, plenty of extracurricular opportunities. If you think they are not "decent", it's probably because they lack a sizable cohort of academically strong students.

Do you have a different (magical?) solution to making an additional high school "decent"?

NP. Easy, offer different levels for each course and track according to ability, add real rigor to the highest level corses and don’t inflate grades. Tracks are fluid and kids can move up or down each subject based on content mastery

It would not only be decent but great and instantly in high demand.

But we can’t have these things can we because of equity so it’s a race to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Back to the original topic - has anyone coming from outside DCPS had their home visit scheduled or been able to sign up for classes or academies yet ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to the original topic - has anyone coming from outside DCPS had their home visit scheduled or been able to sign up for classes or academies yet ?

I've been wondering this, too. We got our paperwork in just about right away (April 2) and nothing yet about when the home visit will be. It's pretty weird to think they're going to visit all of us coming from non-feeder-schools (and there are more than just a few) when they presumably haven't done anyone in the first two months since enrollment opened!

I did learn from JR that the non-feeder-school kids will get to choose their classes in *July.* I don't know the implications for academies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

And what makes a school decent? Several neighborhood high schools in DC have great facilities, great teachers, plenty of sports, plenty of extracurricular opportunities. If you think they are not "decent", it's probably because they lack a sizable cohort of academically strong students.

Do you have a different (magical?) solution to making an additional high school "decent"?

NP. Easy, offer different levels for each course and track according to ability, add real rigor to the highest level corses and don’t inflate grades. Tracks are fluid and kids can move up or down each subject based on content mastery

It would not only be decent but great and instantly in high demand.

But we can’t have these things can we because of equity so it’s a race to the bottom.

You think committed, engaged parents will suddenly start sending their kids to Cardozo or Ballou (where a special needs kid was beaten to death within the last few years) if they begging to offer tracking?

How about instead DCPS figure out placement and services for kids who are chronically truant and having constant behavior problems in class? And get those kids out of regular schools so that kids who are able to follow the rules get a safe learning environment? Maybe do that before offering accelerated math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

And what makes a school decent? Several neighborhood high schools in DC have great facilities, great teachers, plenty of sports, plenty of extracurricular opportunities. If you think they are not "decent", it's probably because they lack a sizable cohort of academically strong students.

Do you have a different (magical?) solution to making an additional high school "decent"?

NP. Easy, offer different levels for each course and track according to ability, add real rigor to the highest level corses and don’t inflate grades. Tracks are fluid and kids can move up or down each subject based on content mastery

It would not only be decent but great and instantly in high demand.

But we can’t have these things can we because of equity so it’s a race to the bottom.

You think committed, engaged parents will suddenly start sending their kids to Cardozo or Ballou (where a special needs kid was beaten to death within the last few years) if they begging to offer tracking?

How about instead DCPS figure out placement and services for kids who are chronically truant and having constant behavior problems in class? And get those kids out of regular schools so that kids who are able to follow the rules get a safe learning environment? Maybe do that before offering accelerated math?

If MacFarland offered a test-in program which covered the core academic subjects and had a realistic plan for how it was going to work, I would be there in year one. And so would a lot of parents whose kids didn't get into Latin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

DCPS has to create more attractive magnet school options across the city

https://youtu.be/cUxG4ZvB2RA?feature=shared

JR can’t be the only one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

DCPS has to create more attractive magnet school options across the city

https://youtu.be/cUxG4ZvB2RA?feature=shared

JR can’t be the only one

Do you even live in DC?

JR isn’t a magnet school.

DCPS does have three selective magnet academic high schools that I’m aware of:

- School Without Walls
- McKinley Tech
- Banneker

And one selective arts school - Duke Ellington.