Coffee in Lincoln Park with David Catania

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't get the "finalized in several years" part. The recommendations have been finalized and will be used in the lottery that begins in December (unless something changes). All that remains is an implementations plan.

I don't get it either, but here's text from an email from the Silverman campaign, dated 9/9. Somebody needs to ask her what she's talking about.

"There is a legitimate concern about making sure we have one strong middle school combining Brent with Maury, SWS, and Peabody.

That is something to fight for because there are three years until this plan is fully implemented.

I would work with Hill parents to fight for that change."

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

I don't get the "finalized in several years" part. The recommendations have been finalized and will be used in the lottery that begins in December (unless something changes). All that remains is an implementations plan.

I don't get it either, but here's text from an email from the Silverman campaign, dated 9/9. Somebody needs to ask her what she's talking about.

"There is a legitimate concern about making sure we have one strong middle school combining Brent with Maury, SWS, and Peabody.

That is something to fight for because there are three years until this plan is fully implemented.

I would work with Hill parents to fight for that change."

I guess she doesn't understand the plan. It takes three years to fully implement, but the boundary and feeder changes are immediate except for where they depend on new schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you live within a block or two of S-H? If you don't, you have no clue.

PP here I have lived within 2 blocks but not currently I do pass the school during school hours on a regular basis and know exactly the kind of behavior described -- not that much different than I've seen around Deal or Wilson either fwiw

Wrong. Deal neighbor here who regularly has appointments on the Hill.

Deal kids are like Westland kids or Pyle kids in their "school's out" behavior. Seriously, they walk in an orderly line across the NPS property and continue on home. No shouting, much bike riding

Wilson, now, that's a different story. MPD cops are there every single day, sitting there and cooly monitoring that last bell, in front of the school and around whole foods, cvs and the metro.

do you work -- I don't sit around observing MS and HS kid behavior. the little bit I see in the mornings before SH begins and around extra curriculars is nothing outrageous. The kids are loud. BFD

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

I don't get the "finalized in several years" part. The recommendations have been finalized and will be used in the lottery that begins in December (unless something changes). All that remains is an implementations plan.

I don't get it either, but here's text from an email from the Silverman campaign, dated 9/9. Somebody needs to ask her what she's talking about.

"There is a legitimate concern about making sure we have one strong middle school combining Brent with Maury, SWS, and Peabody.

That is something to fight for because there are three years until this plan is fully implemented.

I would work with Hill parents to fight for that change."

I guess she doesn't understand the plan. It takes three years to fully implement, but the boundary and feeder changes are immediate except for where they depend on new schools.

Id like to hear how she envisions combining Peabody with Hill schools that go through Fifth. Is she even aware that Peabody feeds into Watkins? What about the different world language programs?

[Anonymous]

This statement from Elissa is very interesting, even if she is unclear how Peabody and Watkins fit in the mix. It makes me wonder if there are Cluster parents who are ready to de-cluster with SH and look at some other options for middle school in ward 6.

[Anonymous]

And since Charles Allen endorsed Elissa recently, how does he view this possibility?

[Anonymous]

Every, please ask these pols. Be polite of course, but don't let them off the hook. I feel like a door is swinging shut this fall that will seal the deal for the next 15 years - no strong by-right MS on the Hill. One simply cannot emerge without Maury, Brent, SWS and the Cluster feeding to the same school. At the very least, the charters need to bend on creaming off the great majority of IB kids between 4th and 5th grades.

[Anonymous]

Everybody.

[Anonymous]

Gotta make Watkins a neighborhood school too, or else your MS idea cannot succeed. Watkins needs to get right-sized. LT needs to keep going to SH as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta make Watkins a neighborhood school too, or else your MS idea cannot succeed. Watkins needs to get right-sized. LT needs to keep going to SH as well.

Why? Don't really care if the students feeding to this middle school live in the immediate neighborhood or not, as long as a large number of them got a decent elementary education, which Watkins seems to do. Not sure these are the same issues.

[Anonymous]

Not all Watkins students go to Stuart-Hobson AND not by far not all Stuart-Hobson students come from Watkins. Nothing wrong with that. That's the nature of DCs school choice model, which may be fundamentally antithetical to our fixation on feeder patterns, Cluster or not. K-8 schools are grappling with the same paradox. No one has squared that circle yet - Cantania included.

[Anonymous]

Sooooo.... why Brent, Maury, SWS, and Peabody/Watkins? What about LT (a few blocks from SWS), Payne (a few blocks from Watkins) and Miner (a few blocks from Maury)? Where will those kids go?

Is Elissa Silverman seriously advocating that all the high SES kids go to one middle school, and let the schools with high FARMS rates.... do what? Do they even merit a mention in her email?

If that's a direct quote from her email then I truly find her position to be not only offensive, but really disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Oh for goodness sake. Who mentioned SES? Trying to find a way to concentrate well -prepared students in one middle school is not offensive. It is smart. Hopefully Ludlow Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson and Tyler would also be feeding there. Think outside your box please

[Anonymous]

^^and Miner!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, no neighborhood school no neighborhood buy in - Good Bye. Leave the feeder patterns the way they are, because it doesn't matter. No one from the neighborhood will attend. Net result = no change.