Read this for both sides of the Shaw/Banneker issue https://dcist.com/story/19/05/28/after-fierce-debate-d-c-council-votes-to-swap-sites-for-banneker-high-and-shaw-middle-schools/ |
What is he teacher turnover like? My high performing DCPS has very high teacher turnover. We all assume it is the principal who in DCPS system has too much power. |
It is a very peculiar-to-DC pathology that the assumption is that the desire for things like high-quality schools and a clear feeder pattern makes one an implacable harpy. What I am asking is not some ridiculous, unattainable standard- I know because I am a product of good public schools, and am happy with the current DCPS school we are enrolled in. We should all expect more of DCPS, and telling parents who are rightfully fed up by the unpredictability and uneven performance of the schools that it is our attitude that is the problem will get future DC kids what it has gotten past DC kids--which is a less-than-they-deserve education. |
It’s obvious you are in a bubble. Oyster is an outlier then, not the norm. The 4 closest elementary schools to where we live all have had new principals in the last 1-2 years, with short term principals before that. |
I attended a "parents outreach" meeting at our (75%+ minority) school where the rep from the Mayor's office said that they interpret the fact that only 19% of in-boundary kids attend the current middle school at Cardozo to be evidence that we do not want to send our kids to school with Black kids, and that therefore there is no demand for a true Shaw Middle School. To say this to a group of parents that CURRENTLY send their kids to a school that is something like 40% Black, 35% Hispanic, 30% White is ridiculous on its face and is a transparently bad-faith argument. To the poster who added the link above, thank you. I also recommend this piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/22/dc-mayor-bowser-is-playing-an-old-game-we-beat-it-once-we-can-again/?utm_term=.9708e01fc2a4 And a quote from Councilman Kenyon McDuffie, from tonight's article in the Post: Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who supported Banneker’s move to the Shaw site, said in an interview that this was an important vote but that it should not have pitted two communities against each other. “The stakes are high and should remain high,” he said. “But the complexity of the issue should not have been reduced to the binary choice between whether you support black or brown kids or a gentrifying neighborhood of Shaw.” I would only add that supporting the gentrifying neighborhood of Shaw IS ALSO supporting black and brown kids. Anyway, the vote has been taken and I hope the Banneker kids get an awesome school out of it, but there was no reason it had to happen at the cost of ripping the heart out of our neighborhood. Pitting the two communities against each other was hugely cynical and corrosive to the long-term health of the city at large. |
You are in a good school you are happy with. So why did you even enter the lottery? |
Is it really a DC thing? Everyone I speak to around DC is completely with you. I suspect it is conservative trolls on DCUM that hate anything that actually helps other people. They spend their time tearing down DC because they’re jealous of us. |
| ^some of the conservative trolls probably even live in DC, or at least the DMV. |
I think I'm having the inverse experience. We are also at a happy neighborhood school in Shaw with wonderful teachers -- maybe the same one? -- and at times felt very lured by the draw of MV, from way people used to talk about it and its proximity to us. Our school loses kids to MV every year. But i did a ton of talking to parents/teachers this year and what I learned really made me nervous about making a huge mistake. we decided not to lottery for MV, ended up getting a great lottery number and a chance at another charter, but in the end decided to stay at our neighborhood school and feel so happy about it. the universe is already telling me it's the right choice -- apparently our amazing current teacher may be looping up with the kids into the next year, so we are guaranteed another good year. good luck to you -- please consider coming back to the neighborhood school if it doesn't work out for you at MV! |
also -- if you are really apprehensive, maybe you can ask the principal if you can re-enroll at the neighborhood school. since you were already there, it's outside of the myschooldc system and may be possible. |
Still don’t see where her office stoked racial resentment. One’s interpretation doesn’t equal what’s PP said. You’re no better than what she’s being accused of. |
DP here. I'm not giving an opinion myself, but here's yet another article, from Jonetta Rose Barras:
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DP: it's clear that that rep was stoking racial tensions -- exactly the same way you are. |
| Hey PP, thank you for sharing your concerns about your DCPS vs. MV. We are likely going to have the same choice this summer and I'm feeling the same way. And I'm super disappointed about what happened yesterday at the Council. Dysfunctional puts it mildly. It's a really tough time. |
This sounds a lot like conservative projection to me: accuse others of what you’re guilty of. And your reply contains no content, just a false accusation. I think the three articles now posted, all which detail how Bowser is stoking racial tensions for political gain, stand for themselves. If you want to argue against them, you’re going to need to bring some facts, not just conservative-like content-free projection. |