Wilson for HS?

[Anonymous]

PP, that is my thinking exactly. It is also true that there are numerous dedicated (and excellent teachers) who will never choose to teach in private school because they want want what enlightened families want --equal opportunity for all, regardless of race and/or economics. I'm concerned that the Wilson principal has removed a handful of the most experienced and toughest of their teachers and will look forward to doing my own research in the coming months, visiting first hand. But agree that the ugly tones that come easily from the hearts and minds of many private school parents is 50% of the reason I would move to public.

[Anonymous]

Oh Puhleease! So many of you are assuming that only private school parents have these attitudes are so wrong. Many public school parents have created the in boundary vs. out of boundary divide in the schools which is really no different than the fucked up attitude that the pp who used the term "bussed" has about kids coming to a school who are not part of the "community" and dragging down test scores. Stop throwing stones!

[Anonymous]

I think you are wrong. I know private school parents who are genuinely AFRAID of DCPS schools like Wilson (and a lot of it is racist). It is way outside of their comfort zones to have their kids around other children from backgrounds that are so different from their own. This is different from run-of-the-mill cliques or groupings within one public school.

[Anonymous]

Actually lots of parents who send their students to Walls and Banneker would not go near Wilson, so please do not hang this all on private school snobs or racists. Wilson is a very complicated place. There's no way to deny that.

(What's with the profanity in this thread?)

[Anonymous]

You people love playing the race card. Just because people who can afford private and know that Wilson is really a complex school that doesn't really serve everyone well doesn't make the racsist. By diluting the quality of education to acomadate a certain segment of the student population you have a school that is mediocre even though it has the ability to be so much better.

[Anonymous]

Actually Wilson doesn't dilute the quality of education all that much, it's more two schools in one. The first time I heard the term "Yale or jail" was in reference to Wilson. It's used to describe schools with gaping achievement gaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually Wilson doesn't dilute the quality of education all that much, it's more two schools in one. The first time I heard the term "Yale or jail" was in reference to Wilson. It's used to describe schools with gaping achievement gaps.

And I rather a Yale or Colgate school for my child. thus I send them to private. Oh and I pay my DC taxes so I subsidize Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Actually Wilson doesn't dilute the quality of education all that much, it's more two schools in one. The first time I heard the term "Yale or jail" was in reference to Wilson. It's used to describe schools with gaping achievement gaps.


And I rather a Yale or Colgate school for my child. thus I send them to private. Oh and I pay my DC taxes so I subsidize Wilson.

You're not understanding. Some Wilson grads do go to Yale. And Colgate, and Williams, and Amherst and so on. Every single year. A lot of them, actually.

These, however, would not be the Wilson grads with less than a 2.0 GPA.

Two different groups of teens. That makes some people on this board upset, that reality. Some people call people like me "racist" for pointing out this reality.

[Anonymous]

My son just left for Colgate after graduating from Wilson. His best friend and our neighbor for the last 16 years went with him as a Georgetown Day grad.

It is what you make of it. Are there problems? Sure. All schools have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: But agree that the ugly tones that come easily from the hearts and minds of many private school parents is 50% of the reason I would move to public.

Whereas the smugness of upper middle class parents who want their privilege procured at public expense and then continually pat themselves on the back for their public-spiritedness for sending their kids to public while accepting the internal apartheid that is Wilson and demanding a lions share of resources for Ward 3 schools generally doesn't turn you off at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people love playing the race card. Just because people who can afford private and know that Wilson is really a complex school that doesn't really serve everyone well doesn't make the racsist. By diluting the quality of education to acomadate a certain segment of the student population you have a school that is mediocre even though it has the ability to be so much better.

Not "just because" -- it's the "you people" and "certain segment" language, along with the assumption that mere presence of black kids condemn schools to mediocrity and the mere presence of more affluent white kids improves the school for everybody that reveals your racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whereas the smugness of upper middle class parents who want their privilege procured at public expense and then continually pat themselves on the back for their public-spiritedness for sending their kids to public while accepting the internal apartheid that is Wilson and demanding a lions share of resources for Ward 3 schools generally doesn't turn you off at all?

no
not considering everything else that goes on in the city

[Anonymous]

Well, then it's simply a matter of preference rather than a moral high ground, I guess.

[Anonymous]

"demanding a lions share of resources for Ward 3 schools generally doesn't turn you off at all?"

Actually, the Ward 3 schools get far, far less per pupil than most other schools in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"demanding a lions share of resources for Ward 3 schools generally doesn't turn you off at all?"

Actually, the Ward 3 schools get far, far less per pupil than most other schools in DCPS.

Don't blind them with facts. The view is that ward3 schools perform better because they receive more money which isn't true. They perform better due to parental involvement.