MacArthur

[Anonymous]

The AP does a great job with communication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need a direct shuttle from a Metro stop. Foggy Bottom would be best

And how would this help in-bounds students get there? Should not in-bounds kids be the first priority? A shuttle from the National Cathedral would be far more useful.

Oh yeah, a shuttle that would run down Wisconsin would be pretty much ideal. Foggy bottom would be useless, nobody in-bound lives near those lines. At least a red line/dupont shuttle could be used by some of the students. But the D6 does that! maybe up that frequency? But that still seems kinda useless. all those freed up spots in JR are better for OOB students from ANY transport perspective. The red line is like every 5 min these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

Which it kinda will. There doesn't seem to be will at WMATA to improve transit to the school. The school is in a super residential area. I hope they make some more bike lanes for the kids at the school though. Resevoir/Macarthur is a bit of a shitshow for kids. Maybe they should finally pave the trolley trail and restore the bridge. That way you don't create other parking conflicts that would happen if you put a bike lane on macarthur. Seems like an easy win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

Wow, it’s not often that you see explicitly pro-segregations posts on DCUM. PP would have been right at home in the Jim Crow south of my childhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

Wow, it’s not often that you see explicitly pro-segregations posts on DCUM. PP would have been right at home in the Jim Crow south of my childhood.

same set of people who'd be against upzoning, etc...

[Anonymous]

The Principal is difficult to reach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

Wow, it’s not often that you see explicitly pro-segregations posts on DCUM. PP would have been right at home in the Jim Crow south of my childhood.

I’m curious why you think high SES= segregation? Unless you mean class segregation only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, few fights. Some parents expect the sun, the moon and the stars of this new school. Not us. School clearly has real potential with an overwhelmingly high SES student body, many good teachers and course offerings designed to mirror J-R's.

The key to the new school’s success will be to maintain an overwhelmingly high SES student body. Maybe that’s not politically palatable to say but it is basically true.

Wow, it’s not often that you see explicitly pro-segregations posts on DCUM. PP would have been right at home in the Jim Crow south of my childhood.

Give us a break. The most virulent pro-segregationists in the system are those who support DCPS in failing to provide suitable academic challenge in schools all the way up. Without above-grade-level offerings at the middle school level outside math in a few schools, and non-tracked social studies and science classes in all DCPS middle schools, most high SES families EotP run to high-SES/white dominated charters and privates offering greater academic challenge. The policy leaves low SES minority students to cluster in DCPS programs, with no high SES bridge to DCPS high school EotP. Misguided honors-for-all at J-R in the last five or six years has driven out high SES families, too. Parents support high SES student bodies at the ES, MS and HS level not because they're racist overall but because DCPS has brought segregation on itself.

[Anonymous]

We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

NP. What did you think of the open house yesterday? I couldn't hear the tour guide at all, so I was mostly looking around without much context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

NP. What did you think of the open house yesterday? I couldn't hear the tour guide at all, so I was mostly looking around without much context.

The logistics could have been much better, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

NP. What did you think of the open house yesterday? I couldn't hear the tour guide at all, so I was mostly looking around without much context.

I thought it was OK. Better organized than McKinley, much worse than Banneker. The tone seemed a little bit too needy, maybe? I was surprised how the campus seemed small and cramped. For a brand-new school, I would have expected a better facility (I'm sure there are reasons for this, I'm just saying).

I liked how a lot of my questions were addressed during the presentation, so I didn't have to follow up with the tour guide. It was interesting the tour guides were teachers, because at other schools, tour guides are usually the students. (But to be fair, MacArthur doesn't have upperclassmen, so maybe that's why.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

NP. What did you think of the open house yesterday? I couldn't hear the tour guide at all, so I was mostly looking around without much context.

I thought it was OK. Better organized than McKinley, much worse than Banneker. The tone seemed a little bit too needy, maybe? I was surprised how the campus seemed small and cramped. For a brand-new school, I would have expected a better facility (I'm sure there are reasons for this, I'm just saying).

I liked how a lot of my questions were addressed during the presentation, so I didn't have to follow up with the tour guide. It was interesting the tour guides were teachers, because at other schools, tour guides are usually the students. (But to be fair, MacArthur doesn't have upperclassmen, so maybe that's why.)

it isn't a new campus. it is the old GDS campus for elementary and kindergarteners

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We attended the open house yesterday, and I didn't get the sense the school was trying to be segregationist, in any way. I think it's definitely an SES thing and not a race thing.

NP. What did you think of the open house yesterday? I couldn't hear the tour guide at all, so I was mostly looking around without much context.

I thought it was OK. Better organized than McKinley, much worse than Banneker. The tone seemed a little bit too needy, maybe? I was surprised how the campus seemed small and cramped. For a brand-new school, I would have expected a better facility (I'm sure there are reasons for this, I'm just saying).

I liked how a lot of my questions were addressed during the presentation, so I didn't have to follow up with the tour guide. It was interesting the tour guides were teachers, because at other schools, tour guides are usually the students. (But to be fair, MacArthur doesn't have upperclassmen, so maybe that's why.)

I don’t know much about MacArthur but your last comment is most likely the reason teachers gave tours. That responsibility is saved for juniors and seniors at most schools.