How many freshman at Wilson this fall?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

NUC

NYC does it and has for years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

This is about real estate balancing for all the new white people in NE and west of 16th st. Not about outcomes

This.

DC parents really just want to blow up the schools that work because if they can’t have good schools no one should. Even though they bought knowing they were on the bad side of town

No it’s about equity. I realize that it’s everyone for themselves. But this “f** you, I got mine” attitude isn’t good. DC is small and shaking up the HS will help open up other successful schools. People need to get over their fear of poor/black kids. Wealthy white kids do well no matter where they go. Private or public, makes no difference. The difference is all children do better in mixed schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

NUC

NYC does it and has for years.

I suppose that's why the NYC public school system wins so many accolades. Folks are dying to move to Queens so they can get a top-notch public education for their kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

[Anonymous]

Not really, NYC runs around 10 big elite test-in high schools with a city-wide catchment area. These schools cream off the top 15% of students.

The great majority of UMC NYC families in public schools who can't afford private and whose children fail to test into one of the magnet programs bail for strong suburban schools.

[Anonymous]

Wilson isn’t going to be redirected. It is status quo. You can go private if you don’t like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

NUC

NYC does it and has for years.

And it is awful and seriously traumatic to be a middle schooler in NYC unless you are perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really, NYC runs around 10 big elite test-in high schools with a city-wide catchment area. These schools cream off the top 15% of students.

The great majority of UMC NYC families in public schools who can't afford private and whose children fail to test into one of the magnet programs bail for strong suburban schools.

It is sort of like DC, except the kids are forced into very high stakes testing, and if you don't ace it, your whole family's life is turned upside down because there is no back up. You and all the kids who end up in your school with you are screwed and made to travel very far by subway for the privilege of attending a bad school no one else wanted, passing other kids along the way who also are traveling very far to the school in your neighborhood that no one else wanted either, but neither of you had the right to choose the bad school in your own neighborhood because the school was selected for you by lottery and you both lost. Completely stupid system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wilson isn’t going to be redirected. It is status quo. You can go private if you don’t like it.

Thanks, and will you be paying the bill for everyone?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wilson isn’t going to be redirected. It is status quo. You can go private if you don’t like it.

Thanks, and will you be paying the bill for everyone?

And finding the spots?
I know so many top kids from Deal, etc. who just didn't get in anywhere for 9th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

Do you have kids? Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math? If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody. I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

Do you have kids? Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math? If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody. I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.

+1 million and BTW I posted that above and am a minority who grew up poor but did well in school thanks to tracking. Why doesn’t the poster who uses the race card ask any middle class AA family why they don’t send their kids to the failing schools. Oh wait but they are racist too.....

That’s the problem with people using the race card to justify the failing of students. You think putting them in a mixed high school classroom is going to do anything to improve their academic standing? News for you, by that time it is too late and they are too far behind. Look at the abysmal PARCC scores of DCPS high schools EOTP, single digits and kids that don’t even show up to school. Staff has to beg and bribe them to come to school to take the PARCC test. Oh but they will miraculously do better in classroom with high achieving kids. BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

Do you have kids? Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math? If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody. I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.

Sad you don’t understand the existing research. For an educated crowd here, it’s pretty stupid. And yes, there is still systemic racism when schools are tied to real estate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

Do you have kids? Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math? If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody. I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.

Sad you don’t understand the existing research. For an educated crowd here, it’s pretty stupid. And yes, there is still systemic racism when schools are tied to real estate.

Please provide a link to the research you are relying on to assert that parents of all races that move to avoid their children going to failing schools are racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Sad that racism is still this strong.

Do you have kids? Do you honestly believe that it's racist to not want to send your kids to a high school with a 3% PARCC pass rate for math? If so, you are delusional.

Systematic racism, implicit bias and straight up old fashioned bigotry are a huge problem, but calling parents with options racists for not signing on to an utterly failing school doesn't help anybody. I'm pretty sure that most parents at Anacostia would send their kids elsewhere if they had the option.

+1 million and BTW I posted that above and am a minority who grew up poor but did well in school thanks to tracking. Why doesn’t the poster who uses the race card ask any middle class AA family why they don’t send their kids to the failing schools. Oh wait but they are racist too.....

That’s the problem with people using the race card to justify the failing of students. You think putting them in a mixed high school classroom is going to do anything to improve their academic standing? News for you, by that time it is too late and they are too far behind. Look at the abysmal PARCC scores of DCPS high schools EOTP, single digits and kids that don’t even show up to school. Staff has to beg and bribe them to come to school to take the PARCC test. Oh but they will miraculously do better in classroom with high achieving kids. BS.

DCPS and staff is partly to blame for these abysmal scores too. For they push kids thru who should have been kept back. Many subjects are building blocks and if you don’t understand the basics, how are you going to understand concepts that build upon it?