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Anonymous
They allegedly chose to attend their IB school due to some white savior complex. At best, they're IB for Payne and patting themselves on the back for supporting "integration." But more likely, they're a troll. |
Anonymous
OMG spare us. Talk to us again when your third grader is 12. |
Anonymous
Our school has moderately lower at risk percentages than Miner but not a huge difference. Test scores slightly better but not dramatically so. The school we received a lottery offer at is maybe an extra 5 minute walk? Commute was not a factor. We entered the lottery because one of our children was in the midst of special needs evaluation and testing, and we wanted to be able to evaluate SpEd programs at multiple schools as we received that diagnosis, and make an informed decision that best met our child's needs, while also prioritizing having both children on the same campus and a reasonable commute. So we did a lottery application for both kids for 4 schools within a walkable commute of our home and randomly got high lottery numbers that resulted in an offer at this other school. We toured it, talked to their SpEd staff, and took a week to make our decision, but ultimately decided that while the school seemed lovely, we were content at our current school, satisfied with how they were approaching our child's SN concerns (by then we had a diagnosis and were in the midst of the IEP process), and it didn't make sense to uproot both kids and abandon a school we liked and where we were involved to move to a nearby school. I have zero regrets about our decision. |
Anonymous
Y'all are so convinced that everyone is as self-serving and value-free as you are. It's actually sad. |
Anonymous
How will I be able to do that? You'll have left DCPS for Latin, BASIS, a private, or simply moved. By the time my 4th grader is 12 (current third graders have not taken PARCC), you will have abandoned the schools my children attend for something else and will no longer be engaged in this conversation. |
Anonymous
So if you deemed one of the other schools a better fit, you were going to take the lottery spot. Uh-huh. You have the same self-interest motivations as any parent that wants the best for their child. You just deem going to a school with a greater percentage of at-risk to be better for your child. And your opinion is in the extreme minority but you would like to impose it on those who disagree. Your arm must hurt from patting yourself on the back all day long. |
Anonymous
| Reading between the lines, the poster(s)' proposition really seems to be that combining the schools will help the MC and UMC kids at Miner/in the Miner boundary. Right? They're the ones who aren't getting enough attention in classrooms that are overwhelmingly at-risk, so they stand to benefit most from reallocating the at-risk kids between the two schools. That's why they're not bothered about whether it will actually improve performance of the at-risk kids. That's not their focus. |
Anonymous
I’m sending my kid to DCPS because so far the schools seem to do an OK job educating him. If your argument is “all DCPS schools should be equally bad and you have no right to expect your child to receive a grade-level education,” I don’t really know what to say. |
Anonymous
lol. such a hypocrite. |
Anonymous
It’s because a) there are an extremely small number of parents who actually choose a lower-performing school specifically for “diversity”; and b) the PP is a self-aggrandizing scold because they no dount chose a decent IB rather than lotterying into a higher risk Hill school, and admit that they won’t send their kid to Eastern. |
Anonymous
I think it was actually going to be a proximity preference that would mostly apply to LT students (since SWS is in the LT IB), but actually (ironically) likely would have applied to some Miner families as well given the distance discussions. I'm glad DCPS said no, given the enormous improvement in IB buy-in LT has made since then. 10 years ago, LT was 297 students; this year it has 487. It was 77% Black, 12% white & only 23% IB; I can't find the at risk percentage, because everything from the time just reports it as 99% FARMS because of its T1 status. It had a principal who was extremely antagonistic to IB parents and told them it was not their school during an open house. However, the metrics of student performance & growth and teacher retention, discipline, etc were actually incredibly solid. When a new principal came in a few years later and aggressively courted IB families while maintaining teacher support, everything started to change fast because the fundamentals for a good school were in place. Last year (so 9 years later), it was 34% Black, 49% white, 60% IB & 17% at risk; given the 50 additional students LT added this school year, I think these trends will only accelerate. The point is, change can actually come from within if the building blocks are in place. Yes, the LT IB demographics are different than the Miner demographics (although note that Miner already has a higher percentage of white kids than LT did only 9 years ago), but LT had solid test scores and school fundamentals before IB families came when it was heavily minority, OOB and at-risk. The school was never failing even if it was unpopular with IB families. The IB families followed a very good & welcoming principal and solid fundamentals; if Miner gets those pieces in place, IB families will come. 9 years is nothing in DCPS land, it's one single boundary review. Just think: When these conversations were happening 10 years ago, LT demographically (which is what DME is focused on) was very similar to Miner now only with LESS IB buy-in. |
Anonymous
It's not "self-serving" to pick the school you think is best for your kids, often at significant cost to yourself. That's actually a much more recognizable value to most parents. |
Anonymous
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Love the people who believe the status quo, in which we have three high performing elementary schools and a host of low performing elementary schools on the hill, three middle schools with weak IB buy in as many families choose to lottery for charters or move, and a high school with 75% of students at risk and 0% of students scoring at or above grade level in math (not a typo, you read that right).
There are such a weird number of parents on here who are like "Yes that is fine as long as my kids attend one of the three high performing elementaries, I will just lottery for Latin and Basis and if that doesn't work, pay for private or move. All good, this is normal and it should stay this way." Bananas. |
Anonymous
The problem is that the bolded cannot currently be said for Miner. LT was able to rapidly get IB buy in when it got a principal who was not openly hostile to IB families because LT already had proven it could educate kids -- it had and still has phenomenal staff who get results with kids from all backgrounds. Miner can't say the same, and that will stand in the way of IB buy in even if they get a principal who focuses on welcoming IB families, which by itself is hard because politically things are different now than they were 9 years ago and it's actually harder to openly welcoming IB, UMC white families to a title 1 school today than it was back then. |
Anonymous
It is self-serving to argue that your strong public elementary school should not be part of the solution for addressing serious inequities and poor outcomes at a neighboring public elementary school. Maury families want to keep their low at risk percentage and watch Miner burn. |