When are boundary changes being announced?
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| To 22:21, Wilson is overcrowded right now, due to the fact that they are not turning away anyone. |
Anonymous
You're being disingenuous. After you've listed Wilson, what else is there to rank? Banneker/Walls/Ellington are all application schools, as are CHEC , McKinley and even Cardozo; you can list them but not be on their 'list'. Which decent high schools are left then? Roosevelt? Coolidge? Eastern? Latin and Basis aren't open to incoming 9th graders, in typical circumstances |
Anonymous
This is true. Wilson being over crowded is diffferent from why Deal is overcrowded or Janney is overcrowded. Looking through the info I don't see them making HS completely lottery only. |
Anonymous
Just listen to the 21st Century School folks and hear what they're saying. HS lotteries is the only scenario they ever even mention as being a possibility when they talk to ES crowds. |
Anonymous
| They also are pushing reopening Western High School, though the DME says that is probably unlikely. |
Anonymous
| I think people put too much weight in the 21st Century people. At the end of the day this will be done through politics and lawsuits. |
Anonymous
| I don't think the 21st Century folks are running the show, but they are helping to set the terms of the debate. The scenarios that they, the DME, and the advisory committee will soon release will most likely be the set from which we are choosing. |
Anonymous
| Has a choice set program been successful elsewhere in the country? |
Anonymous
| What might a choice set look like for, say, petworth or Brookland? |
Anonymous
Mine won't either. They are a bunch of incompetent , corrupt and idiots. I believed in DC, in public schools, and fought against all odds to stay. But I will move out right away To Montgomery County. Unless... What do they have in mind???!!! The two most important investment decisions families have to make in their lives are 1) home investment; 2) education investment. And they are having these decisions subject to a random-semi-random lottery??? The unless... refers to the fact that I want to check the level of exasperation in my neigborhood (West Ward 3) and if I find say 20-30 families ready to invest time and money, will engage in a lawsuit . |
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Make sure you sign up for the working groups and let your voice be heard: http://dme.dc.gov/book/student-assignment-and-school-boundaries-review-process/getting-involved-and-timeline
I'm not convinced that city-wide lotteries are the endgame. I suspect they are being put in so that you'll be happy with choice sets. |
Anonymous
| What school year is this supposed to be implemented? |
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A solution in search of a problem.
Thank you so much DC. |
Anonymous
I already enrolled, no feedback, but I am going to meetings anyways. Large portion of Ward 3 residents would stay, the pioneers who had gone and dedicated efforts to public school will turn to private. This is such a great gift to the private NW schools that I cannot believe they have nothing to do with the nonsense semi-random lottery proposal. Actually, I am 100% sure this is the result of they subtle lobbying.... As someone already pointed out in a different thread, St Ann Academy in Tenleytown will close in June due to low enrollment, and through numbers are encrypted and we do not have data, everybody knows that the raise of Wilson has been the biggest threat ever to the NW privates . No matter what people says (I have heard Sidwell receiving 100 times more applications that available slots) if you talk around YOU EASILY REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SHIFT FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC WHICH HAS HAPPENED IN PAST 6 YEARS IN WARD 3. The idea of assigning to a lottery the outcomes of the most important investment decisions a family has to make in a lifetime, if so unreasonably wrong and unfounded, from a social and economic point of view, that the only rationale that one can find is fulfilling lobbying from the incredibly powerful private schools (the schools + their alumni). |
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The idea of assigning to a lottery the outcomes of the most important investment decisions a family has to make in a lifetime, if so unreasonably wrong and unfounded, from a social and economic point of view, that the only rationale that one can find is fulfilling lobbying from the incredibly powerful private schools (the schools + their alumni).
VERY well said. I see the process in the same way. Let me add that the most obvious solution (keep the boundaries, eliminate OOB and feeder rights for public schools which have failed to deliver system results, have families join forces with the newcomers from gentrification to demand and pursue change in their neighborhood schools. That's the only sound investment everyone should make, invest in the community and in your schools, rather than assign to the lottery odds the chances to succeed-- and not to succeed) is not being pursued for 3 reasons: - hidden lobby from the NW private school establishment - fake social propaganda - political calculations The current OOB system has failed: local schools in the EAST quadrant have been left for attendance by the most marginal of the marginals: American kids born from illegal immigrants (there's an estimated 25,000 illegal of them in DC, many with American kids, you know?), kids with single working parent (who cannot drive them to NW twice a day), kids with parents with early mornings shift who have no choice but to walk to the nearby school by themselves as early as in K, families with disabilities to attend, with elderly granparents to attend, with mental disabilities which require constant supervision... No one is talking about them. The focus is on the rights (or, better, the CHANCES) of those who try or make in to the better NW schools. These are the families who will be affected and annoyed in the short run by the cut in the OOB and feeder right. DCPS is focusing only on them, because they are voters... The most marginal ones, who do not even have other chances but to stay in the local schools... nobody cares, they are out of the picture because in most cases they are so left out that they are NOT EVEN VOTERS, or are illegal parents (of American children). The only way to strenghten schools is the investment of the prospective and present parents , of the granparents, and of the neighborhood . "Gentrification" offers a unique opportunity and a fresh wave of your families with stronger background. Give these neigborhoods extra resource, investments, and support. But for God's sake make those families stay instead of shipping kids out and in twice a day. A kick away the private school lobby, let them stay out of the debate. Private school shutting down due to the raise of DCPS should be our last concern , or no concern at all. |