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Anonymous
| I know 2 Bancroft families and they are both very Berkley Hippy-ish. I would love my kids to be in school with these people's kids - highly educated, involved parents with great values. |
Anonymous
| I think there are several things going on with Bancroft. First, in order to shift the paradigm from an 80% lower income school to a more mixed income demographic would take almost unanimous buy-in to Bancroft from the middle and upper middle class MtP parents who live in the rowhouse component of the neighborhood, because the Bancroft demographics are dominated by the much larger multi-family building population along 16th and MtP Streets. It's different than the WOTP schools---where the multi-family buildings along Connecticut Avenue are not in any way low-income, so the children from the Conn. Ave. apartments and the children from the Cleveland Park bungalows generally have parents of similar education levels. Unanimous buy-in by the MtP rowhouse population just isn't going to happen---too many people go charter, OOB or private. So the "critical mass" never happens. Every year it seems like a fairly sizable cohort of middle class families do start at Bancroft for pre-K and K---particularly if they are interested in the bilingual aspects---but that demographic has all but peeled off by 3rd grade. I don't know why that is----parents afraid that their kid will be the "only" in their class, or parents disatisfied with the level of instruction and teacher quality. In my years of living in MtP, I have heard parents talk (both with experience and neighborhood rumor) about the latter. |
Anonymous
| The population in Mount P. has changed dramatically in the past 10 years-- it's now 50% white (see data in an earlier post in this thread). The tragic fire in that big apartment building on Mt. Pleasant Street probably contributed. The neighborhood lost a lot of Latino families. |
Anonymous
| We live in MtP, and I was dark on Bancroft for years, but am willing to consider it now for PS this fall. Why? A combination of factors: a new principal, a new playground (superficial, perhaps, but the place is spiffier), and a growing appreciation for having a neighborhood school in easy walking distance. The bilingual aspect has always been appealing. The demographic shift is real and is adding to some of the momentum. And it isn't just racial or socio-economic. There are fewer post-collegiate group houses and fewer empty nesters, which is making way for more young families. |
Anonymous
Our school is not scary unless you are a total racist. |
Anonymous
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ugh. For every 1 useful post here there are 5 that are absolute rubbish. What is with knocking all these schools and constantly ascribing nasty motives to people? We visited Cooke and moved it way up our list. We used to live on the corner of 17th and Euclid and weren't even considering Cooke until I read positive threads about it here. It was freaking awesome even compared to some of the privates we've looked at. Seriously, negative know-it-all's, try to contribute or shut the hell up.
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Anonymous
| Maury is not scary. It wasn't scary 4 years ago when I was looking at it for my older son; we chose another school but really like Maury. It's even better now. Very few people who live on the Hill would say its scary. So glad I don't live WOTP - or maybe its not real people who are racist and dumb on DCUM - but just people trying to stir controversy? |
Anonymous
| Without doubt, it is Hearst. |
Anonymous
Maury will have a waitling list in the hundreds this year. Most Hill parents would quickly accept a spot at Maury if they were offered one. Are some of the crazy-negative posters on DCUM part of the US mmilitary unit that tried to use psy-ops on Senators in Afghanistan? |
Anonymous
WTF?? |
Anonymous
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223
Honestly some days it does feel like parents want to do nothing but trash a number of schools. You have to wonder at their motivations. I think you can be honest that there are issues without being so negative. |
Anonymous
Your analogy might make more sense if you weren't comparing apples to engine blocks. 
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Anonymous
This post is a classic random-diversion tactic, cleverly designed to get everyone to stop posting to one of the craziest threads ever on DCUM. Don't fall into this trap, folks! We still have plenty of school-bashing left in us. Here, I'll throw something out, to get the conversation back on track ... the school with the best in-boundary potential for improvement is Meyer, because now that it's being used temporarily the neighborhood will petition to keep it alive since the neighborhood is gentrifying so quickly. Okay, discuss. |
Anonymous
This should be stickied in 24 point Helvetica bold at the top of the DC schools forum. When it comes down to it, the bashing of everyone else's choices or questions or ZIP Codes or year in which they chose to breed is easy to understand. We dearly love our children and our deepest fear is that we somehow failed them. By putting down others, we hope to validate ourselves. It's human nature; take it for what it's worth. |
Anonymous
This is a cakewalk. You should check out the Private Schools forum - where they keep the knives and guns. |