Shepherd ES to New North Middle School?

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

I posted it and said that was my opinion...meaning that is what resources I think they need. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I have zero idea what resources she was talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

Hmm she’s in for a rude awakening. I switched my kids from private to DCPS because they couldn’t accelerate as much as DCPS. Nothing like paying close to $40k to have your child sleep through classes and still get straight As. IMHO, no schools truly serve GT kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

Why would she be angry and announcing that she's pulling her kids from the school if these were the resources she was referencing? WOTP schools are more affluent, much more IB, and with very low disadvantaged %--these are things that can't be helped at Shepherd, which has a much more mixed population. I'm thinking it's something more.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

Why would she be angry and announcing that she's pulling her kids from the school if these were the resources she was referencing? WOTP schools are more affluent, much more IB, and with very low disadvantaged %--these are things that can't be helped at Shepherd, which has a much more mixed population. I'm thinking it's something more.

Just adding--it's the same curriculum across DCPS, so not sure the "rigor" would be different from that perspective. Yes, WOTP schools often have more specials, but that's due to the higher fundraising and parent engagement in WOTP PTAs.

Also, Shepherd's specials aren't too bad of a selection, IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

Why would she be angry and announcing that she's pulling her kids from the school if these were the resources she was referencing? WOTP schools are more affluent, much more IB, and with very low disadvantaged %--these are things that can't be helped at Shepherd, which has a much more mixed population. I'm thinking it's something more.

Just adding--it's the same curriculum across DCPS, so not sure the "rigor" would be different from that perspective. Yes, WOTP schools often have more specials, but that's due to the higher fundraising and parent engagement in WOTP PTAs.

Also, Shepherd's specials aren't too bad of a selection, IMO.

They’ve struggle to hire a Spanish teacher but that’s my only gripe. The art teacher and gym teacher are spectacular.

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Maybe Shepherd could be the new immersion school in Ward 4?

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that folks would assume an UMC AA woman (or any AA) would be talking about resources because of SNs. She was talking about rigor and specials and a rich PTA, because her kids are GT.

Why would she be angry and announcing that she's pulling her kids from the school if these were the resources she was referencing? WOTP schools are more affluent, much more IB, and with very low disadvantaged %--these are things that can't be helped at Shepherd, which has a much more mixed population. I'm thinking it's something more.

Just adding--it's the same curriculum across DCPS, so not sure the "rigor" would be different from that perspective. Yes, WOTP schools often have more specials, but that's due to the higher fundraising and parent engagement in WOTP PTAs.

Also, Shepherd's specials aren't too bad of a selection, IMO.

They’ve struggle to hire a Spanish teacher but that’s my only gripe. The art teacher and gym teacher are spectacular.

Yes, they've struggled with keeping a Spanish teacher for years, not sure why. Agree re: art and gym teacher. The French teacher is great, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Shepherd could be the new immersion school in Ward 4?

The French teacher one an award for best DCPS language teacher of the year a couple of years ago. I'd advocate for French since there are already several Spanish schools around (and my kid is in French, so self-interest, lol), but I'd imagine more people would want to go with Spanish, as it's more practical.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Shepherd could be the new immersion school in Ward 4?

The French teacher one an award for best DCPS language teacher of the year a couple of years ago. I'd advocate for French since there are already several Spanish schools around (and my kid is in French, so self-interest, lol), but I'd imagine more people would want to go with Spanish, as it's more practical.

"won" not one

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I’m not sure French is less practical, or even that practicality is the be all/end all. I wish they would consider Italian or German.

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Except a lot of us Shepherd families really like the IB curriculum and the critical thinking woven through the academics. It’s only one of a handful of IB schools in the system. Exposure to a foreign language is plenty for us. The school is really quite rigorous the way it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Except a lot of us Shepherd families really like the IB curriculum and the critical thinking woven through the academics. It’s only one of a handful of IB schools in the system. Exposure to a foreign language is plenty for us. The school is really quite rigorous the way it is.

This. For many there is already double language household.

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Anonymous wrote:Except a lot of us Shepherd families really like the IB curriculum and the critical thinking woven through the academics. It’s only one of a handful of IB schools in the system. Exposure to a foreign language is plenty for us. The school is really quite rigorous the way it is.

This. For many there is already double language household.

Agreed. Bad idea to make Shepherd an immersion school. Shepherd is focused on the core academics, IB curriculum, and expanding specials, which is what's needed. We don't need another immersion school that churns out poor results in English and other basics.

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Anonymous wrote:"Color me doubtful, especially with a certain baby living in-bounds"

OP, are you implying the Mayor will put the interests of her family over the interest of the city? Or are you referring to your own kids benefitting from the current feeder pattern?

"Intrepid commissioner". Please. Because he supported the community having a say in traffic patterns related to a potential Harris Teeter location in SP. Isn't your wife a real estate agent?Anything else to disclose?

Wow...what BS comment. How personal people get when facts are shared that may dissuade the fear mongering they are steadily pushing.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounded to me like this was to mobilize people to be ready for the next boundary review -- because they assume/believe WOTP parents will push for some school to be cut from the Deal feeder pattern.

I can't imagine a new chancellor would take that fight during his first year or two, but assuming there is a boundary review in 2023 ... it will be a battle.

This is the lead argument from our intrepid commissioner.

Mobilization is certainly underway. Towards what ends is up for interpretation...

More relevantly, the Ward 3 Ed Net is not viewed as a friendly entity here. At all.

What game are you playing posting this everywhere? It funny you keep posting about it, if I remember correctly at least one of your kids is going to wilson using the Shepherd feeder system. So now you think it is ok to kick out SES out of deal/wilson or you just don't care what happens since you kids are already going to deal/wilson? Stop being an hypocrite!

It seems like you have a personal issue. I write a blog about the happenings at our local ANC meetings. I couldn't very well ignore the topic, introduced by our ANC commissioner, that took up a large chunk of time at the most recent meeting.

And I really didn't offer any opinion about whether Shepherd should stay in the Deal feeder or not, other than suggesting that the likelihood of a change is pretty remote.

We can get together to talk about this anytime.

Mr. Alexander, thank you for all you don in the neighborhood. Keep it up!

NP here, what has Mr. Alexander done for the neighborhood? I really just curious.

Hi SP resident here. He attends all these meetings and reports back on his blog, which helps me know what is going on. I can't make most of the meetings due to work and kids' sports schedules. He also ran a great robotics club in the fall for SES/neighborhood kids. I am not sure what your problem is with his post but I find your aggressive demeanor unwarranted. Find a new hobby, please.

Plus 1 million. We all know the two parties making these comments. One has political dreams that will never come to fruition and the other poses as a neighbor although i hear he lives in NE.