Middle and high school on Capitol Hill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Not familiar with private school admission timeframes - so it sounds like privates have already extended their offers? Which privates? some or all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially.

What is the percentage of the brightest ...by any calculations from SWW 2017 applications over 600 wanted entrance...85% were minorities and 15% white. If anyone think the 15% could have their own high school then by all means get a school. Stop being scared and timid...

[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.

Hysterical. My family is brown. I find you revolting for assuming I am white. Racist!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially.

+1. NP. It doesn't have to be that way. When I was a kid in the 70s, Hunter College High School took it upon itself to implement tutoring programs with respect to the entry exam for promising students from disadvantaged neighborhoods. It worked, the student body 'looked like' the City at large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Agree. Not a product of NYC public schools, but I was also the product of a test-in school. Thank God for that. It changed my life as well as the lives of other brown children like myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Hysterical. My family is brown. I find you revolting for assuming I am white. Racist!

You can be a minority and still a racist.

[Anonymous]

I am disappointed in Allen too, I found him awkward and disingenuous not relatable in certain social situations. I am not sure if he's aware or being ill'advised.

[Anonymous]

And that chap who sits on the school board for Ward 6, he's another one that everyone compare notes. He goes anywhere the wind blows. I was in the presence of two cap hill principals and both had negative discussions and it was unsolicited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially.

hmm maybe they would look like Bannker? smh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because DCPS is scared of what those classes will look like racially.

hmm maybe they would look like Bannker? smh.

or and I agree. DCPS is dysfunctional in many ways and can't get out of its own way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah, he's also soft as hell on crime. They're trying to tighten up the Youth Rehabilitation Act (Google it) and he wants it watered down. A woman was brutally attacked and raped on Capitol Hill, because her attacker wasn't properly punished the first several times he was arrested. I don't like him, but hopefully Jeff Sessions will enable a crackdown on repeat violent offenders. The council members in DC seem pretty wary to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

His parents would have been smart to have kept these thoughts to themselves. The Jefferson Academy boosting terrain is ripe for making neighborhood enemies, or at least losing friends, right now. There were a lot of familiar names on that petition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Hysterical. My family is brown. I find you revolting for assuming I am white. Racist!

You can be a minority and still a racist.

Putting your kid in a charter doesn't make you racist. My charter is majority minority. I am opposed to the characterization that private schools are better than public schools. You need serious assistance when it comes to reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

We can start with the fact that DC is less than 1/10 the size of NYC.

We can also ask whether any research indicates that creaming off the best students into one high school benefits either the students or society? (The small amount of research I have seen suggests that it doesn't).

We can also ask whether the tests measure anything that we care about? The relation between SAT scores and college success is .2 I.e. pretty low. That's why colleges care about extracurriculars. The kid with all 750 SATs who starts a successful tutoring program is going places. The kid with all 800s who spends evenings in his room playing World of Warccraft isn't.