International Baccalaureate at Eastern?

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Anonymous wrote:DC will keep getting whiter. Houses in the hip neighborhoods (where the beautiful people live, close to downtown, but with enough money that a couple can squeak through) go for $700 easily. The people who bought those houses will eventually reproduce.

A decade ago, that's what you'd have paid to live in Tenleytown - easily DC's most overpriced and boring hell-neighborhood.

Demographics will solve the problem - the poor will be removed from the school system and the city, because they won't be able to afford to live here. (BTW, look to the race-hate promoters to delay the inevitable.) Test scores will obviously improve, and we will all collectively pat ourselves on the back "for the hard work we did!"

Do you really see this happening?

On the one hand, you have a point about housing. Only those of high SES will be able to afford certain housing.

But can you name one innercity that has become majority white? In the 3,000 years the city has existed. Like, Detroit will never be predominantly white. Neither will Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, etc.

I suspect the extremely expensive housing will go to whom it's always gone-the wealthy who are either older (no school aged kids) or those who go private b/c of lifestyle.

This idea of middle class whites taking over the city seems like a pipe dream after 3,000 years of deeply entrenched history as a black city.

All of the cities you mention are hellholes that wealthy people would never consider living in, but DC is more on the path of Manhattan, San Francisco, Seattle, and Brooklyn.

That's OPINION.

The fact is that major innercities like DC have not become predominatly white, despite an influx of gentrifiers for decades. There are middle class/wealthy, highly-educated Whites and minorities in all of those areas. But that hasn't changed demographics one bit.

DC, quite frankly, is as much of a hell hole as any other innercity. In some ways its worse. DC is definitely not on the path to Manhattan & the other places you've mentioned. You've gotta be trolling me.

Fact: DC used to be majority black, now it isn't.

That's more like Brooklyn than it is Baltimore or Philly (or Newark or Detroit, etc.).

[Anonymous]

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That's OPINION.

The fact is that major innercities like DC have not become predominatly white, despite an influx of gentrifiers for decades. There are middle class/wealthy, highly-educated Whites and minorities in all of those areas. But that hasn't changed demographics one bit.

DC, quite frankly, is as much of a hell hole as any other innercity. In some ways its worse. DC is definitely not on the path to Manhattan & the other places you've mentioned. You've gotta be trolling me.

Here's a personal invitation to visit DC, since it appears to be many years since you've been here. Demographics are definitely changing, and more than a bit. I don't know about projections of the city becoming majority white city-wide or why that matters to you, but certainly gentrifying neighborhoods have significantly changing demographics.
See: Dupont Circle, Logan Circle, Mt. Vernon Square, Capitol Hill, Eastern Market, SW Waterfront, Navy Yard / Ballpark, Columbia Heights, Petworth, Shaw, even Brightwood (see WP article)... could go on and on about neighborhoods with changing demographics.

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You know the funny thing about Eastern, the discussion about it being prepared for whites to attend is such old news. Here we are in the 15th year of the millenium and the percentage of whites in DCPS has not risen above 10 percent. Again, more whites moving into the city but they are not staying...again strollers in condominiums are not growing as in numbers as the strollers in the projects. Where's the statisticians...for Eastern to see just an entrance of 20 white students to cross the door seal, it would mean there would have to be about 500+ at the middle school level. It will never-happen my Peter Pan believers...you can't believe the hype of the real estate agents.

I still remember the Eastrn principal panel interview from year's ago...when a potential white principal candidate asked "where do the white students attend high-school? The response was to her "you need to ask the Asian-American Chancellor? Here we are 5 years later and the question/concernes are being poised by whites and I wonder if the African-American Chancellor has the answer? I wold honestly love to hear the answer, wait the Captiol Hill community no longer have chats and chews with the chancellor. I wonder why???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone reaches out to a DCPS employee specifically but our principal lives in the community and everyone at the school reads the DCUM...you know that theory "you must keep your enemies close." It was never ever a secret on how DCPS put the Eastern school community on edge about the nay-sayers of Ward 6 (Capitol Hill). Do many remember on how...Eastern wanted to become part of the Ward 7 community when the redistricting was discussed? As I remembered the Capitol Hill Community would say "technically" Eastern is not located on Capitol Hill....so the motto of Pride of Capitol Hill" is misleading. I digress.

I would recommend for this nay-sayers not to only speak with Ms. Boccardi but by all means have a discussion with Ms. Skerritt, the principal. The IB program at Eastern is doing extremely well and the first graduating class has produced some outstanding students. Each year offers promises to be better than the first and before your know it, the Best IB Program will be housed at Eastern.

Kudos, to the Eastern faculty y'all are rockstars... Eastern's Education Matter.

How many graduated last year with the IB diploma?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know the funny thing about Eastern, the discussion about it being prepared for whites to attend is such old news. Here we are in the 15th year of the millenium and the percentage of whites in DCPS has not risen above 10 percent. Again, more whites moving into the city but they are not staying...again strollers in condominiums are not growing as in numbers as the strollers in the projects. Where's the statisticians...for Eastern to see just an entrance of 20 white students to cross the door seal, it would mean there would have to be about 500+ at the middle school level. It will never-happen my Peter Pan believers...you can't believe the hype of the real estate agents.

I still remember the Eastrn principal panel interview from year's ago...when a potential white principal candidate asked "where do the white students attend high-school? The response was to her "you need to ask the Asian-American Chancellor? Here we are 5 years later and the question/concernes are being poised by whites and I wonder if the African-American Chancellor has the answer? I wold honestly love to hear the answer, wait the Captiol Hill community no longer have chats and chews with the chancellor. I wonder why???

Isn't PN Hoffman (or somesuch) opening a building in Ward 7? In a decade nobody who isn't rich or doesn't already own property will be able to afford to live in DC, at least in the portion that isn't across the Anacostia. Meanwhile, Eastern will always draw from Wards 7 & 8, so it will be poorer for longer than the heart of the city. Roosevelt seems to be Kaya's newest misguided attempt at an expensive Great White Hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC will keep getting whiter. Houses in the hip neighborhoods (where the beautiful people live, close to downtown, but with enough money that a couple can squeak through) go for $700 easily. The people who bought those houses will eventually reproduce.

A decade ago, that's what you'd have paid to live in Tenleytown - easily DC's most overpriced and boring hell-neighborhood.

Demographics will solve the problem - the poor will be removed from the school system and the city, because they won't be able to afford to live here. (BTW, look to the race-hate promoters to delay the inevitable.) Test scores will obviously improve, and we will all collectively pat ourselves on the back "for the hard work we did!"

oh please. Tenleytown has so much more going for it than some of the so-called hip neighborhoods. One of the best neighborhood public libraries in the DMV. Metro access better than many "hip" urban areas, Whole Foods which every gentrifying neighborhood wishes to get, Fort Reno where all the hipsters want to spend their summer evenings . . .

[Anonymous]

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Isn't PN Hoffman (or somesuch) opening a building in Ward 7? In a decade nobody who isn't rich or doesn't already own property will be able to afford to live in DC, at least in the portion that isn't across the Anacostia. Meanwhile, Eastern will always draw from Wards 7 & 8, so it will be poorer for longer than the heart of the city. Roosevelt seems to be Kaya's newest misguided attempt at an expensive Great White Hope.

Where did you get that sense from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone reaches out to a DCPS employee specifically but our principal lives in the community and everyone at the school reads the DCUM...you know that theory "you must keep your enemies close." It was never ever a secret on how DCPS put the Eastern school community on edge about the nay-sayers of Ward 6 (Capitol Hill). Do many remember on how...Eastern wanted to become part of the Ward 7 community when the redistricting was discussed? As I remembered the Capitol Hill Community would say "technically" Eastern is not located on Capitol Hill....so the motto of Pride of Capitol Hill" is misleading. I digress.

I would recommend for this nay-sayers not to only speak with Ms. Boccardi but by all means have a discussion with Ms. Skerritt, the principal. The IB program at Eastern is doing extremely well and the first graduating class has produced some outstanding students. Each year offers promises to be better than the first and before your know it, the Best IB Program will be housed at Eastern.

Kudos, to the Eastern faculty y'all are rockstars... Eastern's Education Matter.

How many graduated last year with the IB diploma?

I'm a parent and I don't work for DCPS. My understanding is that five or six Eastern students took the full complement of IB diploma exams, and completed the Theory of Knowledge Course, Community Action and Service volunteer hours, and the Extended Essay, but results won't be out until the fall. Since a student only needs 24 IB points (of 45) to earn the Diploma, the bar isn't set terribly high.

[Anonymous]

How many graduated last year with the IB diploma?

None. This was the rebooted Eastern's first graduation class, and first IB Diploma class.

[Anonymous]

Actually, IB Diploma exam results came out this week. Google IB Results to find media reports. Here's a story in a FL newspaper about a local girl who scored 45/45, one of only 3 American students to pull it off this year.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/st-petersburg-high-grad-achieves-rare-feat-a-perfect-score-on-ib-exams/2236613

[Anonymous]

A whole program for 5 or 6 kids? Wow, what a waste.

[Anonymous]

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Isn't PN Hoffman (or somesuch) opening a building in Ward 7? In a decade nobody who isn't rich or doesn't already own property will be able to afford to live in DC, at least in the portion that isn't across the Anacostia. Meanwhile, Eastern will always draw from Wards 7 & 8, so it will be poorer for longer than the heart of the city. Roosevelt seems to be Kaya's newest misguided attempt at an expensive Great White Hope.

Where did you get that sense from?

Are you new?

Roosevelt is supposed to be the pressure-release-valve for Wilson (just as McFarland is the fantasy pressure-release-valve for Deal).

As we all know, Wilson is at full capacity, and DCPS dearly wishes it had an alternative comprehensive HS, but it does not. The latest attempt is spending tens of millions of dollars to renovate Roosevelt - a high school with maybe 500 students. It's going to be "international" but it won't be an International Baccalaureate school. It's going to have a culinary focus (is this a way of saying a trade school track without actually using the words?). It's going to cost a ridiculous amount of money and everyone downtown is hoping it can sop up some Crestview residents who don't want to lose the Deal/Wilson path. It won't of course, but DC taxpayers will get a multi-million dollar bill to satisfy the aging Roosevelt alums in Ward 4.

(Why? They were all going to vote for Muriel anyway.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Isn't PN Hoffman (or somesuch) opening a building in Ward 7? In a decade nobody who isn't rich or doesn't already own property will be able to afford to live in DC, at least in the portion that isn't across the Anacostia. Meanwhile, Eastern will always draw from Wards 7 & 8, so it will be poorer for longer than the heart of the city. Roosevelt seems to be Kaya's newest misguided attempt at an expensive Great White Hope.

Where did you get that sense from?

Are you new?

Roosevelt is supposed to be the pressure-release-valve for Wilson (just as McFarland is the fantasy pressure-release-valve for Deal).

As we all know, Wilson is at full capacity, and DCPS dearly wishes it had an alternative comprehensive HS, but it does not. The latest attempt is spending tens of millions of dollars to renovate Roosevelt - a high school with maybe 500 students. It's going to be "international" but it won't be an International Baccalaureate school. It's going to have a culinary focus (is this a way of saying a trade school track without actually using the words?). It's going to cost a ridiculous amount of money and everyone downtown is hoping it can sop up some Crestview residents who don't want to lose the Deal/Wilson path. It won't of course, but DC taxpayers will get a multi-million dollar bill to satisfy the aging Roosevelt alums in Ward 4.

(Why? They were all going to vote for Muriel anyway.)

There's a big difference between pressure relief for Deal / Wilson and a "Great White Hope", whatever that exactly is.
First, no one is rezoned out of Deal until 2022. Roosevelt is being renovated for the kids who are there, who are not overwhelmingly white.
Even after 2022, I doubt that the kids who are newly zoned for Roosevelt will be overwhelmingly white.

If you want to complain about a ridiculous amount of money being spent, then look at Ellington. Would you propose that Ward 4 kids have a shitty facility instead? (regardless of their race)

You sound like you've got a real chip on your shoulder.

[Anonymous]

A 500-student high school is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 500-student high school is ridiculous.

Not having a vision for the future is more ridiculous.