Jackson-Reed home visits for eligibility verification

[Anonymous]

I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

[Anonymous]

I call troll on this post. JR is no where near at a point of requiring home visits. This would only be done with an audit flag in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call troll on this post. JR is no where near at a point of requiring home visits. This would only be done with an audit flag in the fall.

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Anonymous wrote:I call troll on this post. JR is no where near at a point of requiring home visits. This would only be done with an audit flag in the fall.

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Not a troll. We were told this and so were other families I personally know.

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Anonymous wrote:I call troll on this post. JR is no where near at a point of requiring home visits. This would only be done with an audit flag in the fall.

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Not a troll. We were told this and so were other families I personally know.

We were, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

You first. If your school isn't Jackson Reed. If it is, your opinion is irrelevant.

My kids are at their assigned MS, and will go to their assigned HS, not J-R.

Famous last words. Not buying it. If your kids get into Walls or Banneker or Ellington, that's where they'll go. Maybe McKinley.

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Anonymous wrote:wtf? That is outrageous.

No its awesome. More schools need to do this. Too many OOB kids or from MD attending DC schools and adding the overcrowding issue.

Not so awesome. Try DCPS needs to get its act together. Come on, there's but one good neighborhood high school for an entire big city. Lame.

The situation is lame, but a big part of the solution is more kids going to their actual neighborhood high school.

Sorry but if you think that will magically fix all the problems inherent in DCPS, you are very niave.

You think shoving everyone into Jackson-Reed is a solution?

I don't think anyone thinks this. But do you think it's okay that only one of the by-right schools in DC is decent?

And what makes a school decent? Several neighborhood high schools in DC have great facilities, great teachers, plenty of sports, plenty of extracurricular opportunities. If you think they are not "decent", it's probably because they lack a sizable cohort of academically strong students.

Do you have a different (magical?) solution to making an additional high school "decent"?

NP. Easy, offer different levels for each course and track according to ability, add real rigor to the highest level corses and don’t inflate grades. Tracks are fluid and kids can move up or down each subject based on content mastery

It would not only be decent but great and instantly in high demand.

But we can’t have these things can we because of equity so it’s a race to the bottom.

You think committed, engaged parents will suddenly start sending their kids to Cardozo or Ballou (where a special needs kid was beaten to death within the last few years) if they begging to offer tracking?

How about instead DCPS figure out placement and services for kids who are chronically truant and having constant behavior problems in class? And get those kids out of regular schools so that kids who are able to follow the rules get a safe learning environment? Maybe do that before offering accelerated math?

If MacFarland offered a test-in program which covered the core academic subjects and had a realistic plan for how it was going to work, I would be there in year one. And so would a lot of parents whose kids didn't get into Latin.

Would test-in be fair? https://wjla.com/news/local/man-charged-with-sexual-battery-of-boy-at-fairfax-county-recreation-center

I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

Duke Ellington is pulling a significant number of kids who are zoned for JR. McKinley Tech is not.

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Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

Duke Ellington is pulling a significant number of kids who are zoned for JR. McKinley Tech is not.

But it's still a magnet school and only admits 20% of the students who apply.

[Anonymous]

its the law the school is just following mandated requirements theyll be in and out in 3 mins

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Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

Duke Ellington is pulling a significant number of kids who are zoned for JR. McKinley Tech is not.

lots of kids zones for JR also go to Walls and Banneker. both my kids at JR (one graduated last year and one will be a 10th grader in the fall) had friends who went to Walls and Banneker. so there are already schools that pull kids out of JR

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Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

Duke Ellington is pulling a significant number of kids who are zoned for JR. McKinley Tech is not.

MT and JR have overlapping programs, more than JR and any of the other magnets. For example, both JR and MT have engineering, IT, and biotech academies, and both have football. None of the other three DCPS magnets have any of those programs.

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Anonymous wrote:I know JR isn’t a magnet - duh - but if there were attractive magnet programs across the city, with various niche specialties, that might help overcome the belief that there are only a select few options for selective-college striving kids, and this alleviate overcrowding at JR

You mean like McKinley Tech and Duke Ellington?

Duke Ellington is pulling a significant number of kids who are zoned for JR. McKinley Tech is not.

MT and JR have overlapping programs, more than JR and any of the other magnets. For example, both JR and MT have engineering, IT, and biotech academies, and both have football. None of the other three DCPS magnets have any of those programs.

To be clear, there are a lot more than three DCPS magnet schools! There are currently eight: https://www.myschooldc.org/faq/key-terms#faq-Selective-high-schools-and-programs