When will schools like Janney step up and do their fair share to take at-risk kids??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eaton has to take all kids from the new shelter set to open in the spring.
Eaton is 100% full, in fact in the temp trailers during Reno but still will have to take the homeless kids from the "ward 3" shelter.
Why cant janney, murch, & hearst all help as fellow responsible ward 3 schools?
Homeless kids actually have the right to attend any dcps school, so dont say "because the shelter is in the eaton boundary". And if ward 3 really wants to help the homeless kids than everyone should pool resources and do right by them. Not just mary cheh's usual target.

Since when does Ward 3 "really want to help the homeless kids" ? As a W3 resident, I don't think that's true at all. The shelter was forced into the ward by Bowser. Then many W3 constituents fought to keep its location sufficiently far away from their home addresses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eaton has to take all kids from the new shelter set to open in the spring.
Eaton is 100% full, in fact in the temp trailers during Reno but still will have to take the homeless kids from the "ward 3" shelter.
Why cant janney, murch, & hearst all help as fellow responsible ward 3 schools?
Homeless kids actually have the right to attend any dcps school, so dont say "because the shelter is in the eaton boundary". And if ward 3 really wants to help the homeless kids than everyone should pool resources and do right by them. Not just mary cheh's usual target.

Homeless students can’t go wherever they want. They can stay in the school where they were enrolled before becoming homeless, or move schools to be closer to where they are staying now.

[Anonymous]

Is your objective to get the best educational outcomes for at-risk students or bash Janney?

The current mayor DID NOT put into policy the 10% set aside for as-risk students that was proposed as a part of the redistricting. She grandfathered Crestwood into Deal allowing high net worth families continued access to Deal and Wilson.

If the objective is to get better educational outcomes, I would work with the mayor to re-introduce this aspect that was proposed during the last re-districting. Currently it is not on the table.

[Anonymous]

Janney still has a decent contingent of kids who don't live in-bounds.

I suspect the vast majority of these kids lived in-boundary for a period and moved but were allowed by the principal to remain at Janney.

Some of these kids actually live elsewhere in Ward 3 so I'm not really sure why they aren't at Murch or Lafayette but quite a few of these kids do live EOTP.

But I bet all of these kids are UMC.

So probably Janney could accommodate at-risk kids, and as a Janney parent I'd prefer that they did, but they'd have to kick out these kids who no longer live in-bounds.

But like everything else the solution is to fix the bigger boundary and over-crowding issues at Deal and Wilson and creating additional clusters of high performing Public Schools - one in the neighborhoods just east of Rock Creek Park and another in Capital Hill. One of the reasons the Ward 3 Schools have become so crowded the last 10 years is so many families have cashed out their equity in DC neighborhoods with poorer performing schools and overpaid for a house in AU Park - many of those families would have been happy to stay in their existing neighborhoods if the schools were better.

[Anonymous]

Could at-risk kids even physically make it to Janney? That population has legit transit issues. You can’t send a 2nd grader on the Metro or MetroBus alone in the AM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could at-risk kids even physically make it to Janney? That population has legit transit issues. You can’t send a 2nd grader on the Metro or MetroBus alone in the AM.

Not your problem. Give them the choice at least. There were at-risk kids in schools throughout the Wilson feeder pattern for years. Only in the last decade has getting in OOB become virtually impossible.

And people already send 2nd graders to school via Metro and bus now, usually in pairs or a group. I use the Silver Spring side of the red line every day and they are coming north. People from all parts of the city want their kids in a good school - we all try to get into schools as far north and west as we can. My IB isn’t great, but it is far better than many others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could at-risk kids even physically make it to Janney? That population has legit transit issues. You can’t send a 2nd grader on the Metro or MetroBus alone in the AM.

Not your problem. Give them the choice at least. There were at-risk kids in schools throughout the Wilson feeder pattern for years. Only in the last decade has getting in OOB become virtually impossible.

And people already send 2nd graders to school via Metro and bus now, usually in pairs or a group. I use the Silver Spring side of the red line every day and they are coming north. People from all parts of the city want their kids in a good school - we all try to get into schools as far north and west as we can. My IB isn’t great, but it is far better than many others.

According to many who live south and east of Janney, the people there are awful. Why do they want to go north and west if it is so terrible?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could at-risk kids even physically make it to Janney? That population has legit transit issues. You can’t send a 2nd grader on the Metro or MetroBus alone in the AM.

Not your problem. Give them the choice at least. There were at-risk kids in schools throughout the Wilson feeder pattern for years. Only in the last decade has getting in OOB become virtually impossible.

And people already send 2nd graders to school via Metro and bus now, usually in pairs or a group. I use the Silver Spring side of the red line every day and they are coming north. People from all parts of the city want their kids in a good school - we all try to get into schools as far north and west as we can. My IB isn’t great, but it is far better than many others.

According to many who live south and east of Janney, the people there are awful. Why do they want to go north and west if it is so terrible?

Since you obviously know the answer to this question (safe, functioning schools), I'm assuming that your post is just meant to prove that Janney people are, in fact, awful. Well done - you succeeded.

[Anonymous]

Transportation is a huge logistical issue for at-risk kids. No point in glossing over it. DCPS would need to provide buses if they want to force distribution of at-risk kids across the city. OSSE already provides buses for special ed. They should do it for at risk kids too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could at-risk kids even physically make it to Janney? That population has legit transit issues. You can’t send a 2nd grader on the Metro or MetroBus alone in the AM.

Not your problem. Give them the choice at least. There were at-risk kids in schools throughout the Wilson feeder pattern for years. Only in the last decade has getting in OOB become virtually impossible.

And people already send 2nd graders to school via Metro and bus now, usually in pairs or a group. I use the Silver Spring side of the red line every day and they are coming north. People from all parts of the city want their kids in a good school - we all try to get into schools as far north and west as we can. My IB isn’t great, but it is far better than many others.

According to many who live south and east of Janney, the people there are awful. Why do they want to go north and west if it is so terrible?

Since you obviously know the answer to this question (safe, functioning schools), I'm assuming that your post is just meant to prove that Janney people are, in fact, awful. Well done - you succeeded.

I suppose that might be true if I were a Janney parent but I’m not. I just want to know why so many people criticize the upper NW schools while simultaneously trying to get their kids into them.

[Anonymous]

when rezoning takes place and OSSE creates space overage for at-risk set-aside for which schools do not meet a minimum threshold for % at risk based on IB enrollment. Politically volatile but practical and systematic. No individual school will do this independently and every "successful" school is already at or above capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:when rezoning takes place and OSSE creates space overage for at-risk set-aside for which schools do not meet a minimum threshold for % at risk based on IB enrollment. Politically volatile but practical and systematic. No individual school will do this independently and every "successful" school is already at or above capacity.

should add that DCPS needs to provide incentives for the schools to take on at-risk students and penalties for falling short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Transportation is a huge logistical issue for at-risk kids. No point in glossing over it. DCPS would need to provide buses if they want to force distribution of at-risk kids across the city. OSSE already provides buses for special ed. They should do it for at risk kids too.

Just FYI - the buses for special needs students are funded from federal dollars. So we'd all have to pony up through our taxes for more services, such as this. I'm game. Not sure about others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they start forcing in bounds Janney kids to go to other schools. That'll be the day in DC.

What other schools, pray tell? Are there any schools even remotely close to that neighborhood that have room to spare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When they start forcing in bounds Janney kids to go to other schools. That'll be the day in DC.

What other schools, pray tell? Are there any schools even remotely close to that neighborhood that have room to spare?

I know kids who got into Key OOB recently.