"Autonomous status", what is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You want the real truth?

This is a sop to the highest performing schools in DCPS to keep them from going charter.

Unsurprisingly, parents at high-performing DCPS schools get annoyed when they realize how much influence parents have at relatively new schools like Haynes or Cap City or Yu Ying or Washington Latin. Why can't Hearst have a program like Cap City? Why can't Deal have a program like Latin? Why can't Mann have a program like Yu Ying? Why can't Hardy have a program like Haynes?

It's annoying. Here we are in the highest performing public school cluster of DCPS and we don't get to even have G&T classes, much less magnet programs.

It used to be that charter schools were serving students whose DCPS school was a complete disaster. Anything was better than what they were currently in. NOW, there are charter schools which offer better programs than you can find in JKLM.

Hello? That BL*WS!

Are you upset that children who have been denied comparable educations to the JKLM for decades are now able to get some relief?

So the very well organized, empowered, and connected parents of Ward 3 need to shake the tree! Michelle Rhee and the entire DCPS system needs to understand that if public (charter) schools in WARD 5 can be responsive to high expectations, then perhaps public schools in WARD 3 should try to do the same?

Otherwise, why would you go to Janney or Deal if you can get into Yu Ying or Latin?

Not upset at all. I think it would be nice if Ward 3 parents had similar options. Michelle Rhee is pretty heavy-handed, more autonomy in west of the park schools sounds desirable.

[Anonymous]

What, are you on crack. Ward 3 schools are the schools in which Rhee has been catering. She has been like a dog in heat sniffing up the butts of Ward 3 families. Ward 3 DCPS schools have all the autonomy. It is the schools East of the Park that have been neglected. BTW--the neglect did not begin with Rhee, but began long before her arrival. She just continued the tradition

[Anonymous]

Ok, so I'm still confused. Is Wilson "autonomous" or does it have some other designation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What, are you on crack. Ward 3 schools are the schools in which Rhee has been catering. She has been like a dog in heat sniffing up the butts of Ward 3 families. Ward 3 DCPS schools have all the autonomy. It is the schools East of the Park that have been neglected. BTW--the neglect did not begin with Rhee, but began long before her arrival. She just continued the tradition

Okay that was really crude, but it made me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Bump - Are Banneker, Barnard, Noyes, and Key still Autonomous for next school year? Have other elementary schools tried and failed to get the status that Barnard, Noyes, and Key have achieved? A good accomplishment and 2 of the 3 are not JKLMO!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There seems to be only a handful of great charters, Haynes, Cap city, Yu Ying, and Latin. So a very limited number of parents can take advantage of these schools. Am I correct? If so, your local DCPS still may be better than the average charter. Not every charter is strong or lasts.

That is not a true statement. There seems to be only a handul of charters that White parents and perhaps more applicable, parents West of Rock Creek Park are interested in allowing their children to attend. There are other good and great charters, but the JKLMs refuse to venture too far of westfield.

I agree!! there are a many great charter and DCPS for that case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You want the real truth?

This is a sop to the highest performing schools in DCPS to keep them from going charter.

Unsurprisingly, parents at high-performing DCPS schools get annoyed when they realize how much influence parents have at relatively new schools like Haynes or Cap City or Yu Ying or Washington Latin. Why can't Hearst have a program like Cap City? Why can't Deal have a program like Latin? Why can't Mann have a program like Yu Ying? Why can't Hardy have a program like Haynes?

It's annoying. Here we are in the highest performing public school cluster of DCPS and we don't get to even have G&T classes, much less magnet programs.

It used to be that charter schools were serving students whose DCPS school was a complete disaster. Anything was better than what they were currently in. NOW, there are charter schools which offer better programs than you can find in JKLM.

Hello? That BL*WS!

So the very well organized, empowered, and connected parents of Ward 3 need to shake the tree! Michelle Rhee and the entire DCPS system needs to understand that if public (charter) schools in WARD 5 can be responsive to high expectations, then perhaps public schools in WARD 3 should try to do the same?

Otherwise, why would you go to Janney or Deal if you can get into Yu Ying or Latin?

JKLM. JKLM. What does it even stand for? Could you ever say?

Move to VA or MD for G&T. Watered down BS so you can put a bragging bumper sticker on your car? No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You want the real truth?

This is a sop to the highest performing schools in DCPS to keep them from going charter.

Unsurprisingly, parents at high-performing DCPS schools get annoyed when they realize how much influence parents have at relatively new schools like Haynes or Cap City or Yu Ying or Washington Latin. Why can't Hearst have a program like Cap City? Why can't Deal have a program like Latin? Why can't Mann have a program like Yu Ying? Why can't Hardy have a program like Haynes?

It's annoying. Here we are in the highest performing public school cluster of DCPS and we don't get to even have G&T classes, much less magnet programs.

It used to be that charter schools were serving students whose DCPS school was a complete disaster. Anything was better than what they were currently in. NOW, there are charter schools which offer better programs than you can find in JKLM.

Hello? That BL*WS!

So the very well organized, empowered, and connected parents of Ward 3 need to shake the tree! Michelle Rhee and the entire DCPS system needs to understand that if public (charter) schools in WARD 5 can be responsive to high expectations, then perhaps public schools in WARD 3 should try to do the same?

Otherwise, why would you go to Janney or Deal if you can get into Yu Ying or Latin?

JKLM. JKLM. What does it even stand for? Could you ever say?

Move to VA or MD for G&T. Watered down BS so you can put a bragging bumper sticker on your car? No thanks.

Sure. It stands for "Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann, Murch" AKA the DCPS Tier I elementaries.

[Anonymous]

How does a DCPS school "threaten to go charter"? It is not as if they could take the physical property charter is it? DC needs a public high school to serve the in boundary students. Would the principal and teachers just quit? This could not come out of the blue, there is a process, no?

[Anonymous]

21:38 here, to clarify I was referring to references to Wilson threatening to go charter in earlier posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Otherwise, why would you go to Janney or Deal if you can get into Yu Ying or Latin?"

Are you kidding? Why would you go to Yu Ying or Latin if you can get into Janney or Deal would be the better question. With or without autonomy, Janney and Deal have stellar programs that Yu Ying and Latin cannot compete with.

Please speak for yourself. Seriously. My child could get into Deal (we live about 3 blocks away) and for all sorts of reasons, my child chose Latin--with our backing. Both are great schools and we researched both. I know many children who went to Deal who've had great experiences and I fully support it. Why would I not want a great Middle School option in my backyard? But Latin is also a special place. Please speak to your good experience at Deal, but don't neg on Latin without really good reason.

Same goes for those speaking of Latin of course. No need to take on Janney or Deal. I think the point being made is that Charter schools are often free to specialize in ways that high-performing DCPS are not, and that is very appealing to some parents (I truly love that by the time my child graduates Middle School, my child will have had 4 years of Latin and competed in National Latin Exam. Yes, that is a selling point for this parent). I also recognize that Deal is implementing IB -- nice -- but it was a long road to get there. I fully agree that high-performing DCPS schools should have far more autonomy than they have been given by DCPS central to shape their programs. It's a no-brainer, and it does explain some of the appeal of charters to families who...could go to Deal.

[Anonymous]

FYI that Stoddert just achieved this status. Go Wolves

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You want the real truth?

This is a sop to the highest performing schools in DCPS to keep them from going charter.

Unsurprisingly, parents at high-performing DCPS schools get annoyed when they realize how much influence parents have at relatively new schools like Haynes or Cap City or Yu Ying or Washington Latin. Why can't Hearst have a program like Cap City? Why can't Deal have a program like Latin? Why can't Mann have a program like Yu Ying? Why can't Hardy have a program like Haynes?

It's annoying. Here we are in the highest performing public school cluster of DCPS and we don't get to even have G&T classes, much less magnet programs.

It used to be that charter schools were serving students whose DCPS school was a complete disaster. Anything was better than what they were currently in. NOW, there are charter schools which offer better programs than you can find in JKLM.

Hello? That BL*WS!

So the very well organized, empowered, and connected parents of Ward 3 need to shake the tree! Michelle Rhee and the entire DCPS system needs to understand that if public (charter) schools in WARD 5 can be responsive to high expectations, then perhaps public schools in WARD 3 should try to do the same?

Otherwise, why would you go to Janney or Deal if you can get into Yu Ying or Latin?

JKLM. JKLM. What does it even stand for? Could you ever say?

Move to VA or MD for G&T. Watered down BS so you can put a bragging bumper sticker on your car? No thanks.

Sure. It stands for "Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann, Murch" AKA the DCPS Tier I elementaries.

None of which employ an actual content-rich curriculum. They are just high SES versions of the same old hamburger helper "DC standards" that the rest of DCPS uses. Even at its best it is an inferior education. Deal is just a little IB pedagogy painted on top of the same-old same-old. They sprinkled salmon roe on your toast points, called it "caviar" and you bought it for $200 an ounce. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

None of which employ an actual content-rich curriculum. They are just high SES versions of the same old hamburger helper "DC standards" that the rest of DCPS uses. Even at its best it is an inferior education. Deal is just a little IB pedagogy painted on top of the same-old same-old. They sprinkled salmon roe on your toast points, called it "caviar" and you bought it for $200 an ounce. Ugh.

You dislike the DCPS curriculum. Many of us have children at DCPS schools and like what our children are learning at least for now. Part of what the kids learn in school is based on the given DCPS curriculum, part of it is based on extras: from field trips at school and with parents on the weekends, foreign language classes, from being in a SES/racially diverse school, from walking to school, from reading and being read to at school and at home, from being part of a small school (not many of those in suburban districts), from having friends who aren't either crazy rich or on scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI that Stoddert just achieved this status. Go Wolves

so did Murch!