What is Lower NW going to do for Middle?

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Anonymous wrote:We had a great year in PK4 and looking forward to K. It looks like much of DS's class is going to stick around as well, but I suspect people will start peeling off to charters and DCPS's farther west if we don't get have a valid middle school option. Unlike most of the rest of NW we are shut out of Deal, Hardy and Oyster.

At the moment we're zoned for Cardozo and the only other nearby MS is Walker-Jones. Are there any active parent groups at those schools?

Yes. That's what will happen.

I think generally speaking parents at the MS level are less likely to be super involved in their kid's schools than they are at ES level.

I know a few years back there were some people trying to push for good things at Shaw @ Garnett-Paterson, but I think the closing of the school & move to Cardozo killed it.

So we'll end up being those OOB kids showing up at Hearst, Eaton, and Murch that everyone is always disparaging?

We dont disparage oob kids at Eaton. The oob kids are part of what makes us who we are.

Same for Hearst. We have found that the people who disparage the OOB kids at our school are not people who actually attend Hearst. It's a great school and we would be happy to have you!

Hearst welcomes everyone to its community (as I know Eaton and Murch do too). We would be happy to have you come join us!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a great year in PK4 and looking forward to K. It looks like much of DS's class is going to stick around as well, but I suspect people will start peeling off to charters and DCPS's farther west if we don't get have a valid middle school option. Unlike most of the rest of NW we are shut out of Deal, Hardy and Oyster.

At the moment we're zoned for Cardozo and the only other nearby MS is Walker-Jones. Are there any active parent groups at those schools?

Yes. That's what will happen.

I think generally speaking parents at the MS level are less likely to be super involved in their kid's schools than they are at ES level.

I know a few years back there were some people trying to push for good things at Shaw @ Garnett-Paterson, but I think the closing of the school & move to Cardozo killed it.

So we'll end up being those OOB kids showing up at Hearst, Eaton, and Murch that everyone is always disparaging?

We dont disparage oob kids at Eaton. The oob kids are part of what makes us who we are.

Same for Hearst. We have found that the people who disparage the OOB kids at our school are not people who actually attend Hearst. It's a great school and we would be happy to have you!

Hearst welcomes everyone to its community (as I know Eaton and Murch do too). We would be happy to have you come join us!

I believe this to be true. But once those kids move up to overcrowded Deal and Wilson many do resent the kids - however they got there.

[Anonymous]

About 5 years ago, Ross was less than 10% inboundary. Now it's more than 50%.

If it was not for the hype of the charter schools, Cardozo would have already been much better and had at least 25% in boundary students.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a great year in PK4 and looking forward to K. It looks like much of DS's class is going to stick around as well, but I suspect people will start peeling off to charters and DCPS's farther west if we don't get have a valid middle school option. Unlike most of the rest of NW we are shut out of Deal, Hardy and Oyster.

At the moment we're zoned for Cardozo and the only other nearby MS is Walker-Jones. Are there any active parent groups at those schools?

Yes. That's what will happen.

I think generally speaking parents at the MS level are less likely to be super involved in their kid's schools than they are at ES level.

I know a few years back there were some people trying to push for good things at Shaw @ Garnett-Paterson, but I think the closing of the school & move to Cardozo killed it.

So we'll end up being those OOB kids showing up at Hearst, Eaton, and Murch that everyone is always disparaging?

We dont disparage oob kids at Eaton. The oob kids are part of what makes us who we are.

Same for Hearst. We have found that the people who disparage the OOB kids at our school are not people who actually attend Hearst. It's a great school and we would be happy to have you!

Hearst welcomes everyone to its community (as I know Eaton and Murch do too). We would be happy to have you come join us!

I believe this to be true. But once those kids move up to overcrowded Deal and Wilson many do resent the kids - however they got there.

Thanks for clarfiying. This is OP -- I guess it makes sense that the hostility is coming from the more overcrowded schools which are forced to accept OOB in their feeders. Oh well, I guess we'll lump it when we get there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a great year in PK4 and looking forward to K. It looks like much of DS's class is going to stick around as well, but I suspect people will start peeling off to charters and DCPS's farther west if we don't get have a valid middle school option. Unlike most of the rest of NW we are shut out of Deal, Hardy and Oyster.

At the moment we're zoned for Cardozo and the only other nearby MS is Walker-Jones. Are there any active parent groups at those schools?

Yes. That's what will happen.

I think generally speaking parents at the MS level are less likely to be super involved in their kid's schools than they are at ES level.

I know a few years back there were some people trying to push for good things at Shaw @ Garnett-Paterson, but I think the closing of the school & move to Cardozo killed it.

So we'll end up being those OOB kids showing up at Hearst, Eaton, and Murch that everyone is always disparaging?

We dont disparage oob kids at Eaton. The oob kids are part of what makes us who we are.

Same for Hearst. We have found that the people who disparage the OOB kids at our school are not people who actually attend Hearst. It's a great school and we would be happy to have you!

Hearst welcomes everyone to its community (as I know Eaton and Murch do too). We would be happy to have you come join us!

I believe this to be true. But once those kids move up to overcrowded Deal and Wilson many do resent the kids - however they got there.

This isn't true at all. You are clueless. Kids come from all over to Deal and Wilson even within the boundaries. OOb kids aren't housed separately.

[Anonymous]

Martha Cutts is retiring from Latin after next school year. Why not secure the foxhall road school building that lab wants from DCPS and ask her to steer a second Latin there, since interest in the first is so high? Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Martha Cutts is retiring from Latin after next school year. Why not secure the foxhall road school building that lab wants from DCPS and ask her to steer a second Latin there, since interest in the first is so high? Just saying.

What does that have to do with kids in lower NW? Your solution is a second Latin in the Palisades, which is 20 minutes at best by car from where Shaw middle school used to be and is basically inaccessible by public transit. OK....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Martha Cutts is retiring from Latin after next school year. Why not secure the foxhall road school building that lab wants from DCPS and ask her to steer a second Latin there, since interest in the first is so high? Just saying.

I'm not sure which is better. The nonsensical idea. The implication that it would just be so easy to do this nonsensical idea. Who exactly it is who is clearly dropping the ball by not securing the foxhall road school building and asking Martha Cutts to steer it. Or the idiotic "jusy saying" as the cherry on top.

[Anonymous]

We have 2 at Cleveland, where we are very happy - either charter, private or moving for middle school.