Has Bancroft's rapid gentrification ruined its chances to have its current feeder rights preserved?
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Anonymous
Why would get a preference to another school? They already get a guarantee to a specialized program that the majority of other DCPS students can never access. Bilingual schools should be citywide. But if you are wealthy enough you can buy into it. |
Anonymous
+1 white parents are my school drive me crazy with all their complains. It is like they have nothing better to do. |
Anonymous
And only 4% Black. |
Anonymous
70s came well before the 2010s |
Anonymous
And the white poster above who said “yea, we’re more demanding but we pump money into the PTA” is disgusting. What an obnoxious post. |
Anonymous
Because if one thing has been made crystal clear after visiting this site for years, the vast majority of white people posting here do not want their kids in a school with a lot of minorities. It’s like white people are still dealing with school integration. It’s absurd. All this hand wringing and complaining over boundaries and obsessing over test scores is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
Anonymity can be scary. You know that many of these women would never say a lot of this stuff in public. Sometimes reading DCUM is like reading the comments on a Fox News article. |
Anonymous
This can't be serious. But yes, all kids zoned for bilingual schools have an alternative monolingual school they can attend by right. Families choose monolingual because of special needs, a third language in the home, or any other number of reasons. The monolingual alternatives are on p. 37 of the enrollment handbook: https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/SY22-23%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook%20FINAL_0.pdf And there are more DCPS elementary bilingual seats available than enrolled families. It's completely false to say you "can never access" them, you just only want access to Oyster or maybe Bancroft or Marie Reed. But there are seats at Powell, Bruce Monroe, Cleveland, Houston, and Tyler in K and up if you want them. You just don't want "those" seats for reasons. |
Anonymous
| Have you thought that the reasons could be: wanting to attend a school next to your house, not having to buy a car to commute, not having to drag a kid across town twice a day, having neighborhood friends, showing up to work on time. It’s not all about race ffs. |
Anonymous
I actually asked because if they had IB preference to a different school in ECE, I think it would eliminate some of the concern over be systematically disadvantaged in this school's lottery. |
Anonymous
LOL, you mean like many people that don’t live in Ward 3 do already? That’s school choice, and exactly what a city wide lottery would get you |
Anonymous
And all people who in W3 and want to go to a charter. |
Anonymous
Exactly, PP is just mad she couldn’t afford a house in Woodley Park and wants access her specific school of choice. Not enough to move into a condo apparently, but enough to change the rules to suit her. |
Anonymous
| So I think people should think about the coherent future of a dual language program where the entering students are generally not bilingual. A program like this has to be skewed toward function or ends up futile. Privileging the minority language is important. |
Anonymous
That’s a great question and the DCPS policy actually speaks to it directly. The alternative monolingual school option is only available for compulsory grades, meaning K and up, not pre-K. I’m not sure what you mean by those systematically disadvantaged, but in general the alternative schools are less in demand than the bilingual schools, so there aren’t a ton of families that opt for, say, Tubman instead of Bancroft. And by kindergarten everyone IB will have the right to enroll in either school, so it’s really just two years of pre-K which aren’t guaranteed anyways. |