How things change in a decade!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MacArthur will be the top public high school in the city 10 years from now.

Really?! It seems so bad now. I constantly hear about fights and my friend's kids who go to MacArthur say they haven't seen the principal since the first day of school. I don't know...

Principal at McA is rarely seen. My kid says the last time she saw him was right before Halloween.

Why should she be seeing him regularly? The role of the principal isn’t managing the students. Grade level AP, definitely, but not the principal. He’s got a huge job building a new school (both literally and figuratively). He’s doing a fantastic job

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: The list of the best schools in the city, at every level, will be increasingly dominated by charters.

Only for middle school.

DCPS is by far the leader for elementary. High School is split.

No for elementary EOTP. It’s the immersion charters. Families that don’t get in then settle for DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Euclid will be a moderate success. The number of upper elementary students in central city (shaw, bloomingdale, eckington) is way up. Proximity will entice some of them to stay and try it.

[Anonymous]

There was a lot of talk of MV being flawed back then too. The fall of TR and CMI has been dramatic but otherwise all the other talk of ward 5 charters like YY and stokes and ITS has stayed the same. SWS has fallen in rep a bit and Oyster Adams is now almost never discussed and was a lot in the past.

I agree McCarther will be up in ten years and Jackson Reed even further up. Bannaker and McKinley will remain schools for the black middle class but will become less free and reduced lunch as middle class white students enroll (like 50% white)

No predictions for basis, or sww

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: The list of the best schools in the city, at every level, will be increasingly dominated by charters.

Only for middle school.

DCPS is by far the leader for elementary. High School is split.

No for elementary EOTP. It’s the immersion charters. Families that don’t get in then settle for DCPS.

Nope. Definitely not true on Capitol Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Euclid will be a moderate success. The number of upper elementary students in central city (shaw, bloomingdale, eckington) is way up. Proximity will entice some of them to stay and try it.

Agree. But still, Cardozo will be a no for high school. Eastern and Coolidge will continue to improve slowly, but maybe faster if they hit a growth spurt.

The city will reboundary and maybe zone some kids out of Coolidge, CHEC middle, and other more crowded schools. Total enrollment decline will mitigate this but not entirely solve it. The huge number of elementary schools in Ward 8 will taper a bit due to lower enrollment. Having a clear process for mergers and acquisitions will help with that.

BASIS will continue to plod along with its boosters, and will at long last get its elementary school started in a high income area.

Stokes will go through a more obviously rocky time but as the only French school, people will rally and save it. Sojourner Truth will continue to impress. Latins will Latin and DCI will DCI. MV P St will sort out its issues but the lack of a DCI guarantee will continue to put people off in the upper grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MacArthur will be the top public high school in the city 10 years from now.

Really?! It seems so bad now. I constantly hear about fights and my friend's kids who go to MacArthur say they haven't seen the principal since the first day of school. I don't know...

10 years from now… not in this moment. I just fact checked this though with the people I know who go to MacArthur and they’ve seen the principal… sounds like a weird rumor to start spreading.

[Anonymous]

I think 10 years after it opens, Euclid might be marginally acceptable. Frances EC and several charters will still be substantially better.

Any thoughts on MacFarland?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: The list of the best schools in the city, at every level, will be increasingly dominated by charters.

Only for middle school.

DCPS is by far the leader for elementary. High School is split.

No for elementary EOTP. It’s the immersion charters. Families that don’t get in then settle for DCPS.

Nope. Definitely not true on Capitol Hill.

OK, CH may be the exception but it is a very, very small part of EOTP.

Some CH families do choose immersion over DCPS but not majority.

[Anonymous]

Dunbar will be closed and reconstituted like Eastern, or there will be a new high school in or around Eckington.

[Anonymous]

My kid went to EL Haynes 10 years ago and I very much remember DCUM being very full on crickets when I asked about it. I don't think it ever was highly coveted outside our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Euclid will be a moderate success. The number of upper elementary students in central city (shaw, bloomingdale, eckington) is way up. Proximity will entice some of them to stay and try it.

Agree. But still, Cardozo will be a no for high school. Eastern and Coolidge will continue to improve slowly, but maybe faster if they hit a growth spurt.

The city will reboundary and maybe zone some kids out of Coolidge, CHEC middle, and other more crowded schools. Total enrollment decline will mitigate this but not entirely solve it. The huge number of elementary schools in Ward 8 will taper a bit due to lower enrollment. Having a clear process for mergers and acquisitions will help with that.

BASIS will continue to plod along with its boosters, and will at long last get its elementary school started in a high income area.

Stokes will go through a more obviously rocky time but as the only French school, people will rally and save it. Sojourner Truth will continue to impress. Latins will Latin and DCI will DCI. MV P St will sort out its issues but the lack of a DCI guarantee will continue to put people off in the upper grades.

I don't think "plod" means what you think it means.

P.S. This is one of those DCUM moments where any reply taking issue with that strange characterization will be declared "boosterism". The structure of the approach by PP is actually kind of genius. Take a shot at something. If anyone objects they are "boosters".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: The list of the best schools in the city, at every level, will be increasingly dominated by charters.

And also the worst.

True. Meanwhile, DCPS will find clever new ways to dumb down things even more.

This! DCPS will find ways to slow the improvement of Eastern and other schools by declaring that in bounds buy-in must be slowed because [insert regressive race based talking point here].

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MacArthur will be the top public high school in the city 10 years from now.

Really?! It seems so bad now. I constantly hear about fights and my friend's kids who go to MacArthur say they haven't seen the principal since the first day of school. I don't know...

Principal at McA is rarely seen. My kid says the last time she saw him was right before Halloween.

Why should she be seeing him regularly? The role of the principal isn’t managing the students. Grade level AP, definitely, but not the principal. He’s got a huge job building a new school (both literally and figuratively). He’s doing a fantastic job

The principal should absolutely have eyes on the kids at the beginning of the day and dismissal. very important to be establishing the tone of respect and safety and the culture of the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: The list of the best schools in the city, at every level, will be increasingly dominated by charters.

And also the worst.

True. Meanwhile, DCPS will find clever new ways to dumb down things even more.

This! DCPS will find ways to slow the improvement of Eastern and other schools by declaring that in bounds buy-in must be slowed because [insert regressive race based talking point here].

Yep. ITA.