Overcrowding at Wilson

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Anonymous wrote:What does honors for all mean in practice?

All kids no matter where they are academically are placed in the “honors” classes. Kids can be 3-4 levels apart, maybe more.

It’s true that it’s honors for none. The course is dumb down for the lower performing kids and the higher performing kids are bored to death.

Why don’t you ask the Wilson parents whose kids have gone thru 9th grade with it. To many, it’s a wasted year. Now 10th grade is honors for all....

Math is leveled. Foreign language is leveled. And 73% of Wilson students scored 3/4/5 on PARCC ELA. I'm fine w/honors for all for the introductory high school classes. By 11th most of the 'honors' students will be in virtually all APs anyway. They can also pursue dual-enrollment courses at Georgetown or Catholic University.

This is not strictly true. Dual enrollment at Wilson is only an option in 12th grade except maybe you can do a class at UDC CC in 11th. Also, dual enrollment has limited seats and you can only do 1 course a semester through it. Finally it is a real pain to leave school in the middle of the day and head over to GW, Georgetown, Catholic or Howard.

Then go to an application school. You can't have it all, and you should have known that when decided to live in the city with children.

That is not an answer and you know it. Why would you say Wilson should just leave all of its problems unresolved? Why would you want motivated students to leave the school? How does that help anyone? What you just said is that people who live in DC and want a comprehensive public high school should have low standards and not work toward improvement of our pubic schools. Why would anyone espouse such a position?

Because the demographics are changing. Within 3-4 years there be virtually no students below grade level and 'honors for all; will simply reflect the needs of the IB population needs. If your kids are caught in the transition, you can ride it out of make another choice.

Wilson is changing fast and will never go back to being the truly comprehensive, diverse in all ways, school it has been.

No students below grade level? Even rich kids can be below grade level, believe it or not. It’s Lake Woebegone over there!

Exactly, you don’t think there are below grade level kids over in Bethesda or Mclean?? You don’t think there is a difference between grade level, above grade level, and advanced?? Well, there’s 4 levels of academic abilities right there. It’s obvious the poster fails to see the flaw in his statement and does not understand the serious implications of what DCPS is trying to do to Wilson.

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How does Wilson return in light of Covid?

The school is way overenrolled.

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Anonymous wrote:How does Wilson return in light of Covid?

The school is way overenrolled.

They are not on the short list.

open a satelite campus at Hart Middle School.

I believe that Hart is under-enrolled by 700 + students.

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Anonymous wrote:You can argue about semantics but driving out high performing students from Wilson into suburbs or privates is not the answer. DCPS needs to be looking at creative and innovative solutions to the problem that there is one functioning comprehensive high school in DC. Maybe they should try tracking at Eastern to attract in-boundary students. There are many students at Wilson who schlepp all the way from Capitol Hill and even further. This is not great as these kids are late much more often and also miss more school. The city does not provide enough resources for Wilson to function effectively. This hurts both the low achieving and high achieving kids. Maybe some of you think this is fine because then more $ are left for other schools. I think you should realize that simply pouring money into schools such as a brand new school building and spending extra money on academy directors and fancy blazers for academy students hardly moves the needle. DCPS wastes a lot of money on shiny bells and whistles and in the end there are no winners, only losers.

Great post, PP, agree 100%. You nailed it.

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Anonymous wrote:How does Wilson return in light of Covid?

The school is way overenrolled.

They are not on the short list.

open a satelite campus at Hart Middle School.

I believe that Hart is under-enrolled by 700 + students.

+1

Or the kids go one day a week and do asynchronous the rest of the time. In which case you are better off 100% virtual.