Gun found at Wilson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw many police cars parked around tenlwytown yesterday and I loved it. Wilson kids needs to cool it. If you are a parent of a Wilson kid, please talk to your kid. You are probably at work and have no idea about some.of the shenanigans that go on every day.

What does being at work have to do with anything? Anyhow, my child informs me on the things that go on, but her group of friends aren't wild and unruly.

It means that if you are a parent whose child commutes on their own-as they are perfectly old enough to do- but you have only been for parent events and not witnessed the Tenley after school scene you would be in for an eye opener. It may not be your kid, but you would probably not be happy with some of the kids behavior unless you favor blocking entrances, cursing loudly, occasionally public fighting, and petty mischief such as rock throwing traffic blocking and shop lifting.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a letter that was generated and properly crafted by the legal department of DCPS is the validation needed for potential parents to send their child Wilson is laughable. This is the second letter, so it goes to tell'ya that the first letter was insufficient and it had to be reworked-retooled-recrafted and this one is for your discussion and quick approval. Y'all are so easy to please...

You seem to be attempting to make a very natural occurrence appear controversial. The first email was drafted minutes after the event occurred. Nobody (other than you apparently) should have expected it to be the final word on the subject. Given the luxury of time and resources, it not only understandable, but expected that follow-up communications would be more seriously crafted. Frankly, even seriously crafted DCPS communications have generally fallen well short of what I would have hoped. There is nothing wrong with given credit to where credit is due.

I am not the PP. However, I think the point was that it is a great letter, but you are kidding yourself if you think it wasn't vetted to the 9th degree. This is not a run of the mill communique.

[Anonymous]

The letter while phenomenally well executed basically tells you that doors were ajar and in need of repair and areas were not being monitored and students were loitering the halls after school. Also, after the normal arrival time kids were streaming in well past 8 am. Sounds like things were a little out of control.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a pretty good assessment!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a letter that was generated and properly crafted by the legal department of DCPS is the validation needed for potential parents to send their child Wilson is laughable. This is the second letter, so it goes to tell'ya that the first letter was insufficient and it had to be reworked-retooled-recrafted and this one is for your discussion and quick approval. Y'all are so easy to please...

You seem to be attempting to make a very natural occurrence appear controversial. The first email was drafted minutes after the event occurred. Nobody (other than you apparently) should have expected it to be the final word on the subject. Given the luxury of time and resources, it not only understandable, but expected that follow-up communications would be more seriously crafted. Frankly, even seriously crafted DCPS communications have generally fallen well short of what I would have hoped. There is nothing wrong with given credit to where credit is due.

I am not the PP. However, I think the point was that it is a great letter, but you are kidding yourself if you think it wasn't vetted to the 9th degree. This is not a run of the mill communique.

You must not think very highly of the other posters in this forum if you do not think they are aware that the letter is heavily vetted. As I mentioned above, that is to be expected and we would be dismayed if it were otherwise. The idea that any parent in Washington, DC -- the land of vetted letters -- would knock a letter because it is vetted is pretty ironic.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:The letter while phenomenally well executed basically tells you that doors were ajar and in need of repair and areas were not being monitored and students were loitering the halls after school. Also, after the normal arrival time kids were streaming in well past 8 am. Sounds like things were a little out of control.

School starts at 8:45, so students were apparently entering before 8. "Out of control" may be an exaggeration. I'm wondering if the reaction might be going a bit too far. Now it sounds like, "We're on lockdown, please accompany the prisoner to Cellblock C."

[Anonymous]

Not a Wilson patent but my kids routinely go to school an hour early or stay late to their teachers' office hours for help, to make up work, etc. This is normal in a high school.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The letter while phenomenally well executed basically tells you that doors were ajar and in need of repair and areas were not being monitored and students were loitering the halls after school. Also, after the normal arrival time kids were streaming in well past 8 am. Sounds like things were a little out of control.

School starts at 8:45, so students were apparently entering before 8. "Out of control" may be an exaggeration. I'm wondering if the reaction might be going a bit too far. Now it sounds like, "We're on lockdown, please accompany the prisoner to Cellblock C."

I am an educator. I agree. The in between is a school education with high expectations and trust. Your kids at Wilson are caught at the extremes. What longer term plan does the school have to remedy this i.e character education and buy in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The letter while phenomenally well executed basically tells you that doors were ajar and in need of repair and areas were not being monitored and students were loitering the halls after school. Also, after the normal arrival time kids were streaming in well past 8 am. Sounds like things were a little out of control.

School starts at 8:45, so students were apparently entering before 8. "Out of control" may be an exaggeration. I'm wondering if the reaction might be going a bit too far. Now it sounds like, "We're on lockdown, please accompany the prisoner to Cellblock C."

I am an educator. I agree. The in between is a school education with high expectations and trust. Your kids at Wilson are caught at the extremes. What longer term plan does the school have to remedy this i.e character education and buy in.

I think the long term plan is the gentrification of the student body.

[Anonymous]

And that could very well be ..is there no way to have economic diversity and high standards? Well off kids benefit from those too.

[Anonymous]

Lean on Me! #thatisall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lean on Me! #thatisall

Nowhere close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lean on Me! #thatisall

Nowhere close.

Not being snarky. What does the above mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And that could very well be ..is there no way to have economic diversity and high standards? Well off kids benefit from those too.

There is. Full integration of all DC public schools. it is the ONLY way to solve the RIDICULOUS disparities in test scores the PARCC tests revealed. Separate but equal just isn't working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that could very well be ..is there no way to have economic diversity and high standards? Well off kids benefit from those too.

There is. Full integration of all DC public schools. it is the ONLY way to solve the RIDICULOUS disparities in test scores the PARCC tests revealed. Separate but equal just isn't working.

You mean a random lottery like the People's Republic of San Francisco tried, which basically hollowed out the public schools there? If DC did that, you'd see a lot of white flight all over again. No one wants to buy in the Janney district (Deal, Wilson) and then be told their their kid is being assigned to Marion Barry High (as DC proposes to rename Ballou).