Ward 4 Neighborhood DC Public School Expo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No charters?

Correct. This is hosted by the Ward 4 Education Alliance, which doesn't typically deal with citywide options.

No Shepherd or Lafayette?

I don't normally see people from Lafayette or Shepherd at Ward 4 Education Alliance meetings. It could be because the Ward 3 Education group also includes Wilson feeders.

Wait, so you don't include the largest ES schools in ward 4 because you personally don't know enough parents who have shown up at meetings? That seems pretty short-sited.

-Ward 4 resident.

I live in SP, there are MANY people in the neighborhood that are involved in many other Ward 4 schools. In fact, almost daily there are posters taking about Roosevelt etc. I do think the alliance groups by ward is short sighted (this goes for the ward 3 alliance too). It should be named and practiced via the feeder path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No charters?

Correct. This is hosted by the Ward 4 Education Alliance, which doesn't typically deal with citywide options.

No Shepherd or Lafayette?

I don't normally see people from Lafayette or Shepherd at Ward 4 Education Alliance meetings. It could be because the Ward 3 Education group also includes Wilson feeders.

Wait, so you don't include the largest ES schools in ward 4 because you personally don't know enough parents who have shown up at meetings? That seems pretty short-sited.

-Ward 4 resident.

I live in SP, there are MANY people in the neighborhood that are involved in many other Ward 4 schools. In fact, almost daily there are posters taking about Roosevelt etc. I do think the alliance groups by ward is short sighted (this goes for the ward 3 alliance too). It should be named and practiced via the feeder path.

Like the Ward 3 / Wilson one? I think that makes sense. The Ward 4 one could really be a Roosevelt / Coolidge feeder group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually been rejected by the group? Or is this all just entitled whining?

Yes. Our charter school emailed and was told that this was "public school" only education expo.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps some of these groups should follow the Ward 2 Education Council - while they are focused on DCPS and improving neighborhood schools, they include Ward 6 and Ward 5 and have even (GASP) included charter schools in their conversations.

I guess they care about education as a big picture vs. this BS backfighting like Ward 3, Ward 4 and CHPSPO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

JoshH wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No charters?

Correct. This is hosted by the Ward 4 Education Alliance, which doesn't typically deal with citywide options.

No Shepherd or Lafayette?

I don't normally see people from Lafayette or Shepherd at Ward 4 Education Alliance meetings. It could be because the Ward 3 Education group also includes Wilson feeders.

Wait, so you don't include the largest ES schools in ward 4 because you personally don't know enough parents who have shown up at meetings? That seems pretty short-sited.

-Ward 4 resident.

I live in SP, there are MANY people in the neighborhood that are involved in many other Ward 4 schools. In fact, almost daily there are posters taking about Roosevelt etc. I do think the alliance groups by ward is short sighted (this goes for the ward 3 alliance too). It should be named and practiced via the feeder path.

Like the Ward 3 / Wilson one? I think that makes sense. The Ward 4 one could really be a Roosevelt / Coolidge feeder group.

Yes, I think the name of the alliance groups are misleading and thus could be leaving some folk out of the conversations. For example, living in SP, I don't hear about Ward 3 meetings/initiatives.