Overcrowding at Wilson

[Anonymous]

The truth is that most of the schools are functioning even if the students aren’t. The teachers are good. But if your life is dysfunctional school isn’t going to be too different.

If you don’t want your kid with those kids, fine. But don’t tell me the teachers at Roosevelt or Coolidge or CHEC or Cardozo are bad teachers or that they couldn’t challenge ge your kid. You are deciding based on student cohorts around your kids rather than a ‘functioning’ school.

And please Bowser has no insight or plan wrt schools. She said ‘Deal for all’ and dropped the mic. No heart, no plans, spine and she’s a Catholic school product and knee jerk charter alternative booster for anything that isn't working right in neighborhood schools across the entire District. Anything that happens is because of the Council or the Chancellor or activists or FOIA/journalists.

[Anonymous]

The Wilson Beacon newspaper reports that the 9th grade class is significantly larger than previous years. They give the number as 650.

[Anonymous]

My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

Same here. My son was randomly placed in public speaking. There were only two available alternatives during his period. Now he is taking two languages.....um what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Wilson Beacon newspaper reports that the 9th grade class is significantly larger than previous years. They give the number as 650.

This is what they said:

Wilson Beacon wrote:
Six hundred and fifty-seven students are enrolled in this year’s freshman class. This is significantly more students than last year’s class of 450. Early enrollment data is often misleading, however, as students from feeder schools are automatically enrolled at Wilson even if they aren’t going to attend.

https://thewilsonbeacon.com/15361/news/freshman-class-projected-to-be-largest-ever/

So without knowing what last year's early enrollment number was it's hard to draw conclusions.

[Anonymous]

The exact number may vary but there is a huge increase of 9th graders compared to previous years. The in seat attendance count that happens in October will help establish final enrollment numbers although I don’t think they separate out by grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

[Anonymous]

There is a parent coffee Thursday the 12th from 8 to 9 at Wilson that will be mostly devoted to parent Q&A. That would be a great place to raise these concerns directly with Wilson admin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

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[Anonymous]

Question, for kids who go into one of the JKLM schools in an upper elementary grade (3rd and up), do they have access to Deal and Wilson currently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question, for kids who go into one of the JKLM schools in an upper elementary grade (3rd and up), do they have access to Deal and Wilson currently?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Feel free to start advocating for some schools to be pulled out of the Wilson boundary. If Lafayette and Shepherd fed Wells and Coolidge, the EOTP PARCC scores would go up significantly and both feeder patterns would be closer to capacity. Even if 2/3 of the people IB for Lafayette and Shepherd moved or went private or went to selective high schools (they won't) it would still free up space at Wilson and create more diversity and higher test scores at Wells and Coolidge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feel free to start advocating for some schools to be pulled out of the Wilson boundary. If Lafayette and Shepherd fed Wells and Coolidge, the EOTP PARCC scores would go up significantly and both feeder patterns would be closer to capacity. Even if 2/3 of the people IB for Lafayette and Shepherd moved or went private or went to selective high schools (they won't) it would still free up space at Wilson and create more diversity and higher test scores at Wells and Coolidge.

I like this idea and sending Bancroft kids to McFarland.