John Eaton renovation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:hahaha. Take a look at the wider city and you'll see that Eaton has to be last - or close to it - because of equity realizations.

Ha, yourself. Where was the talk of "equity realizations" when Janney was being renovated twice' or was it three times, in 10 years? Or when Ellington is ravenously costing $200 million and climbing? Eaton is a prime example of how those who wait their turn in line, follow the rules and don't know elbow others out of the way, get screwed in the end.

PP here and yes, you understand my snark. All the unmodernized schools are being shafted by Ellington and the orgy of modernizations in W3 (to the detriment of the rest of the city).

Plenty of schools around DC have been renovated, not just in ward 3. Eaton shouldn't pay the price on the notional altar of 'equity' when it's last in line and all of its peer scholls have had their turn. I agree with you on Ellington. There's likely been criminal fraud there and people ought to be indicted. But that's unlikely, give. How wired Ellington's boosters are into DC's political establishnent and their network of cronies..

[Anonymous]

There's some validity to the impression that Eaton is like the poor stepchild among ward 3 schools. A lot may have to do with simple politics and the fact that Eaton remains a majority out of boundary school. That means that a majority of the school parents are not Mary Cheh's constituents. (Because Eaton parents are dispersed around various wards of the city, it's not like other council members are going to worry much about Eaton either.) As a practical matters, Cheh is going to expend capital and time pushing the DCPS bureaucracy to address the interests other schools in the ward like Janney or Murch over Eaton, simply because there are more Ward 3 voters in those school communities. For this reason, it's understandable that Eaton was the sacrificial school thrown under the bus when a school needed to be dropped from Deal. The curious thing is that Hearst may have a higher OOB population, but the dynamics are shifting more rapidly than Eaton, and it just seems that the Hearst community does a better job of advocating for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's some validity to the impression that Eaton is like the poor stepchild among ward 3 schools. A lot may have to do with simple politics and the fact that Eaton remains a majority out of boundary school. That means that a majority of the school parents are not Mary Cheh's constituents. (Because Eaton parents are dispersed around various wards of the city, it's not like other council members are going to worry much about Eaton either.) As a practical matters, Cheh is going to expend capital and time pushing the DCPS bureaucracy to address the interests other schools in the ward like Janney or Murch over Eaton, simply because there are more Ward 3 voters in those school communities. For this reason, it's understandable that Eaton was the sacrificial school thrown under the bus when a school needed to be dropped from Deal. The curious thing is that Hearst may have a higher OOB population, but the dynamics are shifting more rapidly than Eaton, and it just seems that the Hearst community does a better job of advocating for themselves.

I don't think this is accurate in terms of more rapidly shifting dynamics.

We just crossed the 50% IB threshold this year and if what I see happening in the lower grades is accurate, it will only increase. Not to mention, an 8% uptick in IB in one year is pretty good already. The PK4 incoming class is all IB and had 22 IB children on the waitlist initially. So that means there were 57 IB children interested in PK4. Now, some will stay at NCRC or the Ghan or one of the Montessoris for the upcoming year, but it appears the PK class will be entirely IB this year. And more will come for K, those that didn't get in or ultimately chose to say elsewhere for this year or didn't even participate in the initial lottery. I wouldn't be surprised to see next year's K class have 65 or more of the students be IB.

In the initial lottery this year, Eaton offered only 10 OOB K spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha. Take a look at the wider city and you'll see that Eaton has to be last - or close to it - because of equity realizations.

Ha, yourself. Where was the talk of "equity realizations" when Janney was being renovated twice' or was it three times, in 10 years? Or when Ellington is ravenously costing $200 million and climbing? Eaton is a prime example of how those who wait their turn in line, follow the rules and don't know elbow others out of the way, get screwed in the end.

PP here and yes, you understand my snark. All the unmodernized schools are being shafted by Ellington and the orgy of modernizations in W3 (to the detriment of the rest of the city).

Plenty of schools around DC have been renovated, not just in ward 3. Eaton shouldn't pay the price on the notional altar of 'equity' when it's last in line and all of its peer scholls have had their turn. I agree with you on Ellington. There's likely been criminal fraud there and people ought to be indicted. But that's unlikely, give. How wired Ellington's boosters are into DC's political establishnent and their network of cronies..

Are you saying that Eaton should be prioritized over other non-Ward 3 unrenovated schools because "it's peer schools have all had their turn"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's some validity to the impression that Eaton is like the poor stepchild among ward 3 schools. A lot may have to do with simple politics and the fact that Eaton remains a majority out of boundary school. That means that a majority of the school parents are not Mary Cheh's constituents. (Because Eaton parents are dispersed around various wards of the city, it's not like other council members are going to worry much about Eaton either.) As a practical matters, Cheh is going to expend capital and time pushing the DCPS bureaucracy to address the interests other schools in the ward like Janney or Murch over Eaton, simply because there are more Ward 3 voters in those school communities. For this reason, it's understandable that Eaton was the sacrificial school thrown under the bus when a school needed to be dropped from Deal. The curious thing is that Hearst may have a higher OOB population, but the dynamics are shifting more rapidly than Eaton, and it just seems that the Hearst community does a better job of advocating for themselves.

I don't think this is accurate in terms of more rapidly shifting dynamics.

We just crossed the 50% IB threshold this year and if what I see happening in the lower grades is accurate, it will only increase. Not to mention, an 8% uptick in IB in one year is pretty good already. The PK4 incoming class is all IB and had 22 IB children on the waitlist initially. So that means there were 57 IB children interested in PK4. Now, some will stay at NCRC or the Ghan or one of the Montessoris for the upcoming year, but it appears the PK class will be entirely IB this year. And more will come for K, those that didn't get in or ultimately chose to say elsewhere for this year or didn't even participate in the initial lottery. I wouldn't be surprised to see next year's K class have 65 or more of the students be IB.

In the initial lottery this year, Eaton offered only 10 OOB K spots.

More of these IB parents need to get on Cheh's back and tell her that waiting until 2022 (which in DCPS time means more like 2026+) isn't acceptable. The days of pretty much ignoring Eaton need to end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha. Take a look at the wider city and you'll see that Eaton has to be last - or close to it - because of equity realizations.

Ha, yourself. Where was the talk of "equity realizations" when Janney was being renovated twice' or was it three times, in 10 years? Or when Ellington is ravenously costing $200 million and climbing? Eaton is a prime example of how those who wait their turn in line, follow the rules and don't know elbow others out of the way, get screwed in the end.

PP here and yes, you understand my snark. All the unmodernized schools are being shafted by Ellington and the orgy of modernizations in W3 (to the detriment of the rest of the city).

Plenty of schools around DC have been renovated, not just in ward 3. Eaton shouldn't pay the price on the notional altar of 'equity' when it's last in line and all of its peer scholls have had their turn. I agree with you on Ellington. There's likely been criminal fraud there and people ought to be indicted. But that's unlikely, give. How wired Ellington's boosters are into DC's political establishnent and their network of cronies..

Are you saying that Eaton should be prioritized over other non-Ward 3 unrenovated schools because "it's peer schools have all had their turn"?

Not necessarily. But waiting nearly another decade before another school renovation project goes forward in ward 3 is just unacceptable. It smacks of the dysfunction, delay and cheap, resentment-based politics of the Barry era.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha. Take a look at the wider city and you'll see that Eaton has to be last - or close to it - because of equity realizations.

Ha, yourself. Where was the talk of "equity realizations" when Janney was being renovated twice' or was it three times, in 10 years? Or when Ellington is ravenously costing $200 million and climbing? Eaton is a prime example of how those who wait their turn in line, follow the rules and don't know elbow others out of the way, get screwed in the end.

PP here and yes, you understand my snark. All the unmodernized schools are being shafted by Ellington and the orgy of modernizations in W3 (to the detriment of the rest of the city).

Plenty of schools around DC have been renovated, not just in ward 3. Eaton shouldn't pay the price on the notional altar of 'equity' when it's last in line and all of its peer scholls have had their turn. I agree with you on Ellington. There's likely been criminal fraud there and people ought to be indicted. But that's unlikely, give. How wired Ellington's boosters are into DC's political establishnent and their network of cronies..

Are you saying that Eaton should be prioritized over other non-Ward 3 unrenovated schools because "it's peer schools have all had their turn"?

Not necessarily. But waiting nearly another decade before another school renovation project goes forward in ward 3 is just unacceptable. It smacks of the dysfunction, delay and cheap, resentment-based politics of the Barry era.

It smacks to me of not enough money being spent on high priority school renovation. We've been spending less and less every year on school modernization (and more and more on Ellington!). We should get back on track with the really high priority schools ASAP, and Eaton in it's place behind them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's some validity to the impression that Eaton is like the poor stepchild among ward 3 schools. A lot may have to do with simple politics and the fact that Eaton remains a majority out of boundary school. That means that a majority of the school parents are not Mary Cheh's constituents. (Because Eaton parents are dispersed around various wards of the city, it's not like other council members are going to worry much about Eaton either.) As a practical matters, Cheh is going to expend capital and time pushing the DCPS bureaucracy to address the interests other schools in the ward like Janney or Murch over Eaton, simply because there are more Ward 3 voters in those school communities. For this reason, it's understandable that Eaton was the sacrificial school thrown under the bus when a school needed to be dropped from Deal. The curious thing is that Hearst may have a higher OOB population, but the dynamics are shifting more rapidly than Eaton, and it just seems that the Hearst community does a better job of advocating for themselves.

I don't think this is accurate in terms of more rapidly shifting dynamics.

We just crossed the 50% IB threshold this year and if what I see happening in the lower grades is accurate, it will only increase. Not to mention, an 8% uptick in IB in one year is pretty good already. The PK4 incoming class is all IB and had 22 IB children on the waitlist initially. So that means there were 57 IB children interested in PK4. Now, some will stay at NCRC or the Ghan or one of the Montessoris for the upcoming year, but it appears the PK class will be entirely IB this year. And more will come for K, those that didn't get in or ultimately chose to say elsewhere for this year or didn't even participate in the initial lottery. I wouldn't be surprised to see next year's K class have 65 or more of the students be IB.

In the initial lottery this year, Eaton offered only 10 OOB K spots.

More of these IB parents need to get on Cheh's back and tell her that waiting until 2022 (which in DCPS time means more like 2026+) isn't acceptable. The days of pretty much ignoring Eaton need to end.

Considering she sat back and watched us be moved to Hardy, I have no use for that woman and will never vote for her. I questioned her in person about the situation at the time it was happening and her response to me was "Well, I don't really know much about that." I'd run against her myself but am precluded from holding office due to my job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:hahaha. Take a look at the wider city and you'll see that Eaton has to be last - or close to it - because of equity realizations.

Ha, yourself. Where was the talk of "equity realizations" when Janney was being renovated twice' or was it three times, in 10 years? Or when Ellington is ravenously costing $200 million and climbing? Eaton is a prime example of how those who wait their turn in line, follow the rules and don't know elbow others out of the way, get screwed in the end.

PP here and yes, you understand my snark. All the unmodernized schools are being shafted by Ellington and the orgy of modernizations in W3 (to the detriment of the rest of the city).

Plenty of schools around DC have been renovated, not just in ward 3. Eaton shouldn't pay the price on the notional altar of 'equity' when it's last in line and all of its peer scholls have had their turn. I agree with you on Ellington. There's likely been criminal fraud there and people ought to be indicted. But that's unlikely, give. How wired Ellington's boosters are into DC's political establishnent and their network of cronies..

Are you saying that Eaton should be prioritized over other non-Ward 3 unrenovated schools because "it's peer schools have all had their turn"?

Not necessarily. But waiting nearly another decade before another school renovation project goes forward in ward 3 is just unacceptable. It smacks of the dysfunction, delay and cheap, resentment-based politics of the Barry era.

It smacks to me of not enough money being spent on high priority school renovation. We've been spending less and less every year on school modernization (and more and more on Ellington!). We should get back on track with the really high priority schools ASAP, and Eaton in it's place behind them.

Why)TF does Ellington get so much -- basically a blank check -- and now everyone else who's waited this long gets penalized?

[Anonymous]

I bet Ellington is up to $250 mil by now. They must be putting some gold-plated stuff up in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet Ellington is up to $250 mil by now. They must be putting some gold-plated stuff up in there.

The Ellington renovation can only be described as bribes and bling. Eaton and other schools are the losers.

[Anonymous]

Eaton is kind of DCPS's ugly stepchild in Ward 3. Hard to see how that changes near term.

[Anonymous]

How has the Washington post not written more/ done real investigative journalism about Ellington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How has the Washington post not written more/ done real investigative journalism about Ellington?

Because they're afraid that Peggy Cooper Cafritz and all her friends will cry racist witch hunt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eaton is kind of DCPS's ugly stepchild in Ward 3. Hard to see how that changes near term.

True. Eaton needs to just get over it.