Middle and high school on Capitol Hill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS doesn't care a whit about neighborhood schools. They care about capacity management system wide. As a matter of fact, they're fine with any particular by-right school being 0% in-boundary, as Brent had become by the early 2000s. DCPS principals are not evaluated on their ability to attract or retain in-boundary families. Note that DCPS won't buy or build any new elementary schools in Upper NW, although several of the JKLM schools are at close to 200% capacity, following the logic that there are DCPS elementary school buildings in Wards 7 and 8 standing two-thirds empty.

As long as voters aren't canning their city council members over neighborhood school issues, the city government isn't accountable to neighborhood parents shunning schools. If you want to get DCPS' attention, you can vote Allen out, though that's unlikely to do any good.

Let's vote Allen out just based on the fact that he does nothing for Ward 6. Also he promised a Capitol Hill middle school and did nothing. Useless.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean that Allen promised a Cap Hill MS? I remember him promising to get even more money for SH on the stump and that's about it.

[Anonymous]

Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean that Allen promised a Cap Hill MS? I remember him promising to get even more money for SH on the stump and that's about it.

You are wrong. He promised a Capitol Hill middle school. Of course all we got is two meth clinics and increased traffic so our kids can get run over without consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

[Anonymous]

I know it may be a pipe dream, but I would love to see a respectful conversation on this topic. Just because you can be nasty on an anonymous forum doesn't mean you should be. It would be a much more valuable resource if people would be respectful as well as honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean that Allen promised a Cap Hill MS? I remember him promising to get even more money for SH on the stump and that's about it.

You are wrong. He promised a Capitol Hill middle school. Of course all we got is two meth clinics and increased traffic so our kids can get run over without consequences.

Anyone who voted for him thinking that he would be able to deliver this was incredibly naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

PP - I'm not the PPP but the privates are far superior than anything you have on the Hill. Your classes are testing far below average and even below grade. Looks like you're the one dumping your kids in inferior public schools. Cheers.

[Anonymous]

So one thing that hasn't been discussed there that I am curious about is whether the principals/teachers of Eliot-Hine or Jefferson will engage with parents about their concerns for their on-grade-level/advanced students who might attend those schools? Has discussion of this issue happened? Were parents' concerns dismissed? Were school representatives' thoughts on this topic dismissed? Other?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

Not everybody is a lottery winner by definition. Why not just be grateful that you were? Why not acknowledge that maybe that family's going private was one less person competing for a lottery space and thus improving odds for others?

There needs to be some recognition that while public works out for some, there are so many more that it does not work out for. And those who it works out for are not more deserving - they are simply more lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

Not everybody is a lottery winner by definition. Why not just be grateful that you were? Why not acknowledge that maybe that family's going private was one less person competing for a lottery space and thus improving odds for others?

There needs to be some recognition that while public works out for some, there are so many more that it does not work out for. And those who it works out for are not more deserving - they are simply more lucky.

No, that was a trollish comment which deserved a snarky response. I think some people believe that a "private" school is inherently better. Not true. I would not send a dog to any of the local Catholic schools, much less children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

I find you both gross for crowing about how far you will go to make sure your snowflakes don't have to share a classroom with poor, black and brown children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one reassure me of the wisdom of selling my Capitol Hill home and moving my kids to private last year.

Aw couldn't handle it? Some of us don't want to dump our children in an inferior private school and instead got lucky with charters. Sorry you were a lottery loser that still trolls the board. Sad!

I find you both gross for crowing about how far you will go to make sure your snowflakes don't have to share a classroom with poor, black and brown children.

There are more black and brown kids in my private than there were in my Capitol Hill public, though very few of them are poor. One good aspect of this is my kids no longer assume that brown kids are poor or only have moms, now that they socialize with wealthy brown kids with professional parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd welcome test-in programs and honors programs like in NYC. We don't need programs for gifted kids. We do need programs for bright kids.

My child is very bright but likely not genuinely gifted. She was, however, reading FOUR grade levels above many other kids in her Hill inbound elementary -- in FIRST grade. No way will I send her to a middle school where most peers are years behind her, unless there's an honors class (which there will likely not be). I'll sell my home before then (and we've been on the Hill over 15 years).

Signed,
Successful product of NYC public schools

+1. Why, oh why, can't DC have real Hunter/Stuy/Bronx Sci/Brooklyn Tech equivalents?

[Anonymous]

One of the -- if not, the -- smartest kids at Brent stayed for 5th grade. His parents were willing to consider Jefferson based on everything they heard. Well, a little deeper digging this year and... nope. They're going to pony up for private after all.