WCP article on Watkins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me again -- the Watkins middle school poster. I hear the concerns about racism, and the invitations to come visit and see how great the school is, etc. None of these address my point: Watkins doesn't need to be there. It's a gigantic school (physically) that can easily be converted into a middle school. It serves relatively few in-bounds students. The in-bounds students (whether at Watkins or elsewhere) can easily be accommodated at the other Cap Hill elementary schools. I'm not picking on Watkins because of race or because I'm a troll. It's just that it's the biggest and newest of all the options. Same argument could be made for Payne.

WTH. This is absurd and toxic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Why not? Because it's a dumb idea that doesn't even deserve this response.

Anonymous wrote: WTH. This is absurd and toxic.

Well I guess you guys showed me. Checkmate.

[Anonymous]

The city has no interest in concentrating more affluence in fewer schools. Not to mention I'm not convinced you could fit all of the IB Watkins students into the remaining schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at Watkins and there are still plenty of families from his Peabody days in the fourth grade with him. I volunteer regularly in the classroom, and I’d say it’s like many other schools with a large student body— some kids are doing exceptionally well, others struggle to learn. The good thing is that there still is a large enough group of kids that can push each other academically even in the fourth grade, so it’s not as dire as some of these others posters want to make it seem.

Not to be a downer, but there’s a world of difference between 4th and 5th at Watkins. We would have said exactly the same thing in 4th. Except, my kid was a little bored by the slow pace of the classes, so we left for Basis for 5th. We felt guilty about it and didn’t talk about it much, but when we got to Basis, we discovered almost all of her friends were leaving for Basis as well.