Walker Jones?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:horrible after k

Are you enrolled in the school?

We were, and we were very pleased with pre-s and pre-k, but are leaving for K.

Can you provide more insight?

For kindergarten teachers we were faced with a choice between a) someone who's been a teacher for a loooong time and does way too much seat work for my taste or b) an unknown (the other K teacher left at the end of last year and I didn't know who would be the replacement). Plus the older grades are rough (ie a third grader brought cocaine to school last year). It wouldn't have killed us to stay for K probably, but we were able to get in somewhere else, so we didn't have to worry about it.

Wasn't the cocaine and third grader from Thomson?

That's what I thought when I read that post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:horrible after k

Are you enrolled in the school?

We were, and we were very pleased with pre-s and pre-k, but are leaving for K.

Can you provide more insight?

For kindergarten teachers we were faced with a choice between a) someone who's been a teacher for a loooong time and does way too much seat work for my taste or b) an unknown (the other K teacher left at the end of last year and I didn't know who would be the replacement). Plus the older grades are rough (ie a third grader brought cocaine to school last year). It wouldn't have killed us to stay for K probably, but we were able to get in somewhere else, so we didn't have to worry about it.

Wasn't the cocaine and third grader from Thomson?

That's what I thought when I read that post.

I don't know anything about Thomson, but I was a Walker Jones parent last year and the school sent home letter regarding the incident. I'm not reporting hearsay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:horrible after k

Are you enrolled in the school?

We were, and we were very pleased with pre-s and pre-k, but are leaving for K.

Can you provide more insight?

For kindergarten teachers we were faced with a choice between a) someone who's been a teacher for a loooong time and does way too much seat work for my taste or b) an unknown (the other K teacher left at the end of last year and I didn't know who would be the replacement). Plus the older grades are rough (ie a third grader brought cocaine to school last year). It wouldn't have killed us to stay for K probably, but we were able to get in somewhere else, so we didn't have to worry about it.

Wasn't the cocaine and third grader from Thomson?

That's what I thought when I read that post.

I don't know anything about Thomson, but I was a Walker Jones parent last year and the school sent home letter regarding the incident. I'm not reporting hearsay.

Odd, that 2 schools within 7 blocks of each other would both have 3rd graders brining cocoaine into the school in the same year. Perhaps you misread the letter and it was talking about the Thomson incident and how WJ planed to address it. Or how DCPS did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:horrible after k

Are you enrolled in the school?

We were, and we were very pleased with pre-s and pre-k, but are leaving for K.

Can you provide more insight?

For kindergarten teachers we were faced with a choice between a) someone who's been a teacher for a loooong time and does way too much seat work for my taste or b) an unknown (the other K teacher left at the end of last year and I didn't know who would be the replacement). Plus the older grades are rough (ie a third grader brought cocaine to school last year). It wouldn't have killed us to stay for K probably, but we were able to get in somewhere else, so we didn't have to worry about it.

Wasn't the cocaine and third grader from Thomson?

That's what I thought when I read that post.

I don't know anything about Thomson, but I was a Walker Jones parent last year and the school sent home letter regarding the incident. I'm not reporting hearsay.

Odd, that 2 schools within 7 blocks of each other would both have 3rd graders brining cocoaine into the school in the same year. Perhaps you misread the letter and it was talking about the Thomson incident and how WJ planed to address it. Or how DCPS did?

No. The Thomson incident was 2011. This was THIS Spring, 2013. And no one in the Walker Jones incident got sick. They got caught before anything truly awful happened.

http://dcist.com/2011/03/dc_elementary_school_students_repor.php