What do you think of Janney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the "troll" was making a joke.

Perhaps. There's a jerk on the private school board who always says the same snarky thing about Harvard so I thought he/she was just stopping in to pay us a visit here.

[Anonymous]

"Janney does not have "two teachers per class." Janney has the DCPS-standard one teacher per class. there are also paraprofessional aides in most classes who help the teachers."

Not true. In most grades/classes, the second teacher is a teacher with a four-year teaching degree. Often, they are first or second year teachers. But they are not, generally, "paraprofessionals" with only two-year degrees. There are still a few of those left, but that is mostly the old model of how pre-K and K were handled years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has the highest number of kids - by a landslide - that go on to Harvard. Waaaaaaay more than any other DC public elementary.

Yeah, it also has more kids than some ESs combined.
The great DCPS our DC attends has kids returning to their home countries often. No Harvard there. Meanwhile, they beat Janney in math and came pretty close to beating in English too.

PP, can you not recognize sarcasm? That you do not says a lot about you, not Janney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Janney has the highest number of kids - by a landslide - that go on to Harvard. Waaaaaaay more than any other DC public elementary.

Well of course. Everyone knows that Janney is, in fact, a direct pipeline to Harvard! Duh! That's the reason people make fun of it - it's all pure jealousy. It has nothing to do with being ridiculous and obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney has the highest number of kids - by a landslide - that go on to Harvard. Waaaaaaay more than any other DC public elementary.

Well of course. Everyone knows that Janney is, in fact, a direct pipeline to Harvard! Duh! That's the reason people make fun of it - it's all pure jealousy. It has nothing to do with being ridiculous and obnoxious.

Another sarcasm detection fail.

[Anonymous]

Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question, don't buy just for Janney. I would buy in a Deal feeder -- maybe Janney but more likely Lafayette, Murch or Hearst, and maybe also Sheppard. You will be in great hands at any of them. The other @JKLMM HORSES schools are also wonderful but then you have to figure out a middle school plan.

Yes, but for being Metro close Janney is one of the more convenient Deal feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

Part of that is not because of Janney but because of Metro and shopping proximity, and that won't change as an advantage for much of AU Park real estate, even if Janney were to fall behind other schools in terms of desirability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

Part of that is not because of Janney but because of Metro and shopping proximity, and that won't change as an advantage for much of AU Park real estate, even if Janney were to fall behind other schools in terms of desirability.

Aren't SV and CC already obviously more desirable? SV is more attractive and CC/DC has proximity to upper Connecticut Ave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

Part of that is not because of Janney but because of Metro and shopping proximity, and that won't change as an advantage for much of AU Park real estate, even if Janney were to fall behind other schools in terms of desirability.

Aren't SV and CC already obviously more desirable? SV is more attractive and CC/DC has proximity to upper Connecticut Ave.

I guess it's a matter of taste, but I don't think so, except maybe the part of CCDC that is walkable to Friendship Heights, for its partially nicer housing stock. The commerce on Connecticut Ave isn't that great (I'd rather be closer to Wholefoods and all that Friendship Heights has to offer). Spring Valley isn't walkable to much, feels extremely suburban, and has the munitions issues that would be a dealbreaker for me. To each their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Janney does not have "two teachers per class." Janney has the DCPS-standard one teacher per class. there are also paraprofessional aides in most classes who help the teachers."

Not true. In most grades/classes, the second teacher is a teacher with a four-year teaching degree. Often, they are first or second year teachers. But they are not, generally, "paraprofessionals" with only two-year degrees. There are still a few of those left, but that is mostly the old model of how pre-K and K were handled years ago.

It depends. Janney's co-teachers generally are fully accredited teachers, but there are not always two teachers per classroom. In the 30 student third grades classes last year each class had two full time teachers. They also had two full time accredited teachers for 5th grade math and the 2 5th grade ELA teachers last year shared one fully accredited co-teacher. There can be a couple of co-teachers shared across a grade depending on the size of the cohort. My point being they disperse resources to meet the needs of the kids and it may change from year to year.

Pre k and k always have two teachers but not always co-teachers.

[Anonymous]

It's pretty simple. In DC Janney's the best. And then there are all of the rest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

Part of that is not because of Janney but because of Metro and shopping proximity, and that won't change as an advantage for much of AU Park real estate, even if Janney were to fall behind other schools in terms of desirability.

Aren't SV and CC already obviously more desirable? SV is more attractive and CC/DC has proximity to upper Connecticut Ave.

I guess it's a matter of taste, but I don't think so, except maybe the part of CCDC that is walkable to Friendship Heights, for its partially nicer housing stock. The commerce on Connecticut Ave isn't that great (I'd rather be closer to Wholefoods and all that Friendship Heights has to offer). Spring Valley isn't walkable to much, feels extremely suburban, and has the munitions issues that would be a dealbreaker for me. To each their own.

Except that:
everyone has cars
SV is attractive
and AU Park isn't

(Btw, walkability to grocery stores is meaningless. Nobody wants to walk home from Whole Foods, lugging groceries for a family of 4).

Go ahead though, keep proving the point. You like to pretend you're Harvard when everyone knows you're just UNC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty simple. In DC Janney's the best. And then there are all of the rest.

PP, give it a rest !

Some clueless sarcasm immune parent is going to take umbrage and bite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janney was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. But like every other commodity you don't want to be the one to buy at the top. The real estate prices in AU Park on a square foot basis are ridiculous for the old, small houses you get. And, the school is at a tipping point with overcrowding. The smart money is now buying in Murch/Hearst zones since the schools have higher test scores than Janney, but generally lower cost per foot (but not for long). And, you have the Deal feeder path.

Part of that is not because of Janney but because of Metro and shopping proximity, and that won't change as an advantage for much of AU Park real estate, even if Janney were to fall behind other schools in terms of desirability.

Aren't SV and CC already obviously more desirable? SV is more attractive and CC/DC has proximity to upper Connecticut Ave.

I guess it's a matter of taste, but I don't think so, except maybe the part of CCDC that is walkable to Friendship Heights, for its partially nicer housing stock. The commerce on Connecticut Ave isn't that great (I'd rather be closer to Wholefoods and all that Friendship Heights has to offer). Spring Valley isn't walkable to much, feels extremely suburban, and has the munitions issues that would be a dealbreaker for me. To each their own.

Except that:
everyone has cars
SV is attractive
and AU Park isn't

(Btw, walkability to grocery stores is meaningless. Nobody wants to walk home from Whole Foods, lugging groceries for a family of 4).

Go ahead though, keep proving the point. You like to pretend you're Harvard when everyone knows you're just UNC.

I wasn't trying to "pretend I'm Harvard" (however fitting that metaphor is given that you are clearly concerned with monetary wealth), I was simply saying that I would rather live in AU Park than Spring Valley, for the reasons I gave.

See, the nice thing about AU Park is that there are few people like you - it's not a snobby neighborhood where people constantly assume that others are trying to seem more affluent than they are, or that everybody values the same things.