Walls AP leaving DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a little secret: The top students who stay in public want to go to Wilson. Sure, there are bright kids at Walls, but not the top kids. Walls is known for busy work, group projects and field trips. The majority of Wilson teachers are younger and more engaged, although there are a few exceptions, and this is not the case at Walls where there are many older teachers who frankly are terrible. See, the kids know this —- listen to them once in a while— but the adults are clueless. 🤷‍♀️

It is insulting to keep putting Walls students against Wilson students. There are very strong students at both schools. To claim Wilson has all the top students as compared to Walls is frankly a bit racist. Because you as usual assume that the only smart kids in DCPS must come from the Deal pyramid which is a veiled way of saying white. Walls has some very accomplished students not from upper NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a little secret: The top students who stay in public want to go to Wilson. Sure, there are bright kids at Walls, but not the top kids. Walls is known for busy work, group projects and field trips. The majority of Wilson teachers are younger and more engaged, although there are a few exceptions, and this is not the case at Walls where there are many older teachers who frankly are terrible. See, the kids know this —- listen to them once in a while— but the adults are clueless. 🤷‍♀️

It is insulting to keep putting Walls students against Wilson students. There are very strong students at both schools. To claim Wilson has all the top students as compared to Walls is frankly a bit racist. Because you as usual assume that the only smart kids in DCPS must come from the Deal pyramid which is a veiled way of saying white. Walls has some very accomplished students not from upper NW.

Walls is much whiter than Wilson, according to OSSE.

Walls: 51% white, 25% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian
Wilson: 39% white, 29% Black, 22% Hispanic, 5% Asian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s a little secret: The top students who stay in public want to go to Wilson. Sure, there are bright kids at Walls, but not the top kids. Walls is known for busy work, group projects and field trips. The majority of Wilson teachers are younger and more engaged, although there are a few exceptions, and this is not the case at Walls where there are many older teachers who frankly are terrible. See, the kids know this —- listen to them once in a while— but the adults are clueless. 🤷‍♀️

It is insulting to keep putting Walls students against Wilson students. There are very strong students at both schools. To claim Wilson has all the top students as compared to Walls is frankly a bit racist. Because you as usual assume that the only smart kids in DCPS must come from the Deal pyramid which is a veiled way of saying white. Walls has some very accomplished students not from upper NW.

Walls is much whiter than Wilson, according to OSSE.

Walls: 51% white, 25% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian
Wilson: 39% white, 29% Black, 22% Hispanic, 5% Asian

Actual data FTW!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good riddance. Every person in the administration at Walls this year has been an embarrassment to higher education. They have not managed to have a single in-person class for any kids this year. They refused to engage with parents honestly and transparently about plans for any sort of IPL. They did nothing. But they were happy to have the Mayor come celebrate the anniversary of the school for self-serving PR. The kids who succeed at the school do so in spite of the administrators there, not because of them. And if they go woke and make permanent the admissions test (which they suspended this year), it will be the beginning of the end for the school's reputation (or what's left of it).

Lol if you’re kid is so smart they should be able to do DL. Mine was fine, still saw her friends. But parents will cry about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good riddance. Every person in the administration at Walls this year has been an embarrassment to higher education. They have not managed to have a single in-person class for any kids this year. They refused to engage with parents honestly and transparently about plans for any sort of IPL. They did nothing. But they were happy to have the Mayor come celebrate the anniversary of the school for self-serving PR. The kids who succeed at the school do so in spite of the administrators there, not because of them. And if they go woke and make permanent the admissions test (which they suspended this year), it will be the beginning of the end for the school's reputation (or what's left of it).

Term you're looking for is "secondary education". Higher education confers academic degree (ie college)

[Anonymous]

New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

[Anonymous]

Walls is much whiter than Wilson, according to OSSE.

Walls: 51% white, 25% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian
Wilson: 39% white, 29% Black, 22% Hispanic, 5% Asian

The demographics of the freshman year will probably be much different!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

What is the objective evidence that you have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

They’re saying that the subset of students who are considering Wilson and Walls seem to prefer Wilson, for reasons elucidated in the posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

No, it's not "objectively not true." Walls screens for a group of above average students and they have overall better scores than Wilson, which does not do any such screening. However, in the experience of many, Wilson does just as good a job (if not better) actually educating all students, including the subset of student they have that are above average (and there are many, many very smart students at Wilson). Comparing the test scores of the two schools doesn't make a lot of sense.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

They’re saying that the subset of students who are considering Wilson and Walls seem to prefer Wilson, for reasons elucidated in the posts.

I really think you would need some data for this because lots of kids in the Wilson boundaries attend Walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

They’re saying that the subset of students who are considering Wilson and Walls seem to prefer Wilson, for reasons elucidated in the posts.

I really think you would need some data for this because lots of kids in the Wilson boundaries attend Walls.

Sure. And lots of kids in the Wilson boundary are accepted to Walls and choose Wilson, or don’t apply to Walls in the first place because of what they hear about it. I don’t have the data, but I know lots of kids in the former group, and I’m the parent of one (likely soon to be two) in the latter group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New in town here looking at high schools and based on math and English proficiency and college admissions Walls looks way better than Wilson What am I missing?? Thank you!

Current walls students had to test to get in and functions like a magnet school. Wilson is a normal public school.

But then why are people on this thread saying Wilson is as good as or better than Walls, academically? Isn't that just objectively not true?

Wilson is a much larger school than Walls and is also a neighborhood school. Perhaps one way of framing the question is: What opportunities and experiences will an excellent student have when you compare the two schools? It’s quite easy to see that a given excellent student might have a “better” experience at Wilson, which might have a wider variety of both excellent classes and extracurricular options vs a much smaller school with a selected population. As with any school, fit matters.