Wards Five & Six - Let's Make "Deals"
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Anonymous
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WARD SIX PUTS ON THE TABLE
* Jefferson & Stuart Hobson both close. * Van Ness Elementary (5th & M St, SE) re-opens as a neighborhood school. * School Within a School is moved from Peabody and co-located at Van Ness. * Peabody gains additional capacity with SWS removed. * Ward Six goes from three to one middle school. * Eliot Hine is renamed Eastern Middle School with a Hobson Academy (8th grade), an Eliot Academy (7th) and a Hine Academy (6th). * Eliot Hine is fed by Thomson, Amidon, Brent, Van Ness, Tyler, Peabody, Ludlow Taylor, Watkins, Payne, Maury, Miner, Wilson, Logan & SWS. * Operating & modernization savings strengthen Eliot Hine, and support Ward Five middle school. WARD FIVE PUTS ON THE TABLE * All Ward Five elementary schools revert to PreK to 5th grade. * Savings from consolidation go to Ward Five Middle School. * Ward Five gets a new middle school. IN CONCLUSION * We should sit down, have some bubbly wine and cheese, and talk turkey * Let's make a deal. Actually, let's make two "Deals." |
Anonymous
| Several posts in the DCPS Thread state that Stuart Hobson & Jefferson should close. How many people are advocating for that? I think ONE PERSON is proposing this multiple times. If there is more than one of you, please give us some unique identifier. (of course, one anonymous person could give us several unique identifiers). |
Anonymous
| And where is J.O. Wilson? |
Anonymous
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Who thought of this? Are you drunk Louisa? Renaming a middle school serves what purpose? I have yet heard the need to rebuilding a middle-school. Why can't Eliot-Hine be in the category of bein a "new" facility like Kelly-Miller or Sousa for that matter?
Remember, if you make Eliot-Hine soooooooo attractive, then those children from Friendship Middle will trek back and your little darlings will be out-numbered and/or displaced. Honey-child, Ig say let's have some grape kool-aid, fried-chicken and let's talk some smack. What about an application only middle-school, there's not one at the present moment in the District. |
Anonymous
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Can you imagine SWS moving to Van Ness. Somebody was drinking something when dreaming this up.
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Anonymous
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Keep in m ind that Stuart Hobson has the fewest number of Ward Six kids enrolled:
IN-BOUNDS STUDENTS SH - 90 EH – 94 Jeff – 151 |
Anonymous
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No idea who "Lousia" is, but I have heard rumors of a Reggio Program at Van Ness.
The biggest problem that Peabody faces is that SWS attracts neighborhood kids. Those who do not get in feel slighted and won't send their children to the mainstream program (which is seen by most as inferior, but really it is not so different from Maury or Brent) so you get lots of OOB in the downstairs program. Only a small percentage of SWS kids move on to Watkins and Stuart Hobson. I see the logic -- let Peabody/Watkins build itself into a true neighborhood school using the Brent/Maury model by moving the SWS program to another location. |
Anonymous
But it is the 2nd or 3rd highest ranking DCPS middle school. It is also scheduled for renovation. Why shut it down in favor of E-H? Although I guess E-H has better athletic fields. |
Anonymous
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WARD SIX MS ENROLLMENT/CAPACITY
SH – 428 / 460 EH - 284 / 850 Jeff – 279 / 900 * Ward Six has capacity for 2,210 students in three middle schools. * Ward Six middle schools use 45% of their capacity. * Ward Six has 991 total students enrolled. * Ward Six has 335 in-bounds students. * Ward Six students fill 15% of the Ward Six middle school capacity. A independent observer would conclude Ward Six with 335 students in middle school should have one school until enrollment gorws. |
Anonymous
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Chancellor Henderson and Tommy Wells estimated that it would take two million to re-open Van Ness as an Elementary school.
DCPS pledged to re-open the school by 2015. The Chancellor met with a hundred Near Southeast residents and said with current population trends the neighborhood can support an elementary in 2015, and perhaps earlier. This was a disappointment to the stroller filled community who wanted it opened in 2011. Th area had been zoned for Amidon, and the Chancellor gave them the additional right to feed into Tyler if they want. There has been little interest from Near Southeast in Tyler to date. The Van Ness building is currently occupied and if it's good enough for adults it's be good enough for kids. Capitol Quarter in Near Southeast is a Hope Six project where all of the 700 public housing domiciles that were removed are being reintegrated into a new mixed income community. The neighborhood full of urban homesteaders who represent an ideal launching pad for another Hill success story. |
Anonymous
| I basically like this idea other than the closing down Hobson and moving SWS. My kids aren't in these programs, but these programs are working. Let's not close what's working. |
Anonymous
Just to interject. I am not usually oversensitive top these things but on these boards I find it offensive and derogatory when people call kids "your little darlings" or "snowflakes". It is ugly and not necessary. Certainly doesn't lead to useful conversation. Cut it out. |
Anonymous
I think if you expect Ward 5 parents to help support and improve this school, then you have to actually welcome them. If you're putting out the message that really, only the 335 Ward 6 IB kids deserve a school, then I doubt you'll get very far in terms of broad-based support. Deal straddles into Wards 1 & 4. |
Anonymous
| Right. OP, what's in this "deal" for Ward 5 parents? I don't get it. |
Anonymous
Ward Five has rightly cited the abundance of middle schools in Ward Six middle schools as unfair. Closing two Ward Six middle schools, and linking it to adding a Ward Five middle school seems straight forward. |