Who sends their kid to Wakefield HS? Is it really that bad?

[Anonymous]

Is the situation at Wakefield is similar to that in DCPS, where the schools are graduating students who did not meet attendance requirements?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/01/19/its-not-just-ballou-schools-across-d-c-are-graduating-students-who-were-chronically-absent/?hpid=hp_local-news_dcschools-1005am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5e57cba2d039

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

Many of the folks buying new houses in our neighborhood previously lived in Arlington. Did they find the schools in APS "lacking"? That's a different question.

In any event, you are flat-out wrong when you claim people don't move further out. That happens all the time, whether it's DC to Arlington or Montgomery, or Arlington to Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

are you seriously claiming no one commutes from Fairfax county to DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you the person APS has employed to project student capacity? Are your incorrect assumptions the reason we have the overcrowding crisis?

I know where the FFX schools are located. Like pretty much everyone else I know who has at least one parent working in DC, we are not willing to move any further west from DC, even right "next door" to McLean. Langley would be even further away for us. We're not alone in this, and all the UMC families I know who've left "because of the schools" HAVE moved within Arlington, or to FCC. Not out to McLean or Langley, unless there has been a job change, too. Most haven't moved at all and have gone private or sought a transfer if they weren't happy with their zoned school[i].

But whatever you need to tell yourself.

Those that live in Arlington County who has at least one parent working in DC don't move but then send their kids to Sidwell or National Cathedral School (NCS) because they are, you guess it, DC.

So are you agreeing with me? I mean, I live here and see what stickers are on the cars. I literally don't know any families who've moved out to FFX when APS was found lacking. But there are a number at privates. Nobody who has to work in DC is moving further out if they can help it.

That doesn't mean that any student can't succeed at Wakefield.

are you seriously claiming no one commutes from Fairfax county to DC?

OMG, no. I see you clogging up the roads every day. What I am claiming is that I don't know anyone who purposely selects a house in a close-in location who then bails to FFX because the GS score goes down a point at their local school. Of course some people never entertain living in closer-in areas that don't have all GS 9-10 schools and move to FFX the minute they have kids. Just as some people never entertain the idea of living outside the Beltway, or even outside of DC. But this has nothing to do with whether a student can reach their potential at one school and not another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the situation at Wakefield is similar to that in DCPS, where the schools are graduating students who did not meet attendance requirements?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/01/19/its-not-just-ballou-schools-across-d-c-are-graduating-students-who-were-chronically-absent/?hpid=hp_local-news_dcschools-1005am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5e57cba2d039

No. Why would you even suggest this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Are you implying that Asians are racist too? What an absurd statement to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Are you implying that Asians are racist too? What an absurd statement to make.

Not absurd in anyway. It is absolutely true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians don't like other minorities either.

Are you implying that Asians are racist too? What an absurd statement to make.

Not absurd in anyway. It is absolutely true.

It’s absurd because everyone’s racist. It’s doesn’t need to be said.

[Anonymous]

So what can be done to improve the school? It’s a nice building but the achievement levels suck and it’s hard to see them improving much with such a large low-income, minority student body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what can be done to improve the school? It’s a nice building but the achievement levels suck and it’s hard to see them improving much with such a large low-income, minority student body.

Wrecking balls to the low income housing. Aside from that nothing.

[Anonymous]

If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

So you would send your kids to Baltimore City schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

So you would send your kids to Baltimore City schools?

Dp- you are asking if they would send their child to a dysfunctional school system, as opposed to APS? Are you implying Wakefield is similar to inner city Baltimore schools? You are a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I lived in the Langley school zone I'd send my kid there. Same with McLean. But I live in the Wakefield school zone so my kid will go there.

I am not upset about *not* having hoards of tiger moms surrounding me. I know my kids will do well.

I went to McLean. My class has plenty of high achievers. But we also had plenty of people who are middling about just like the rest of the plebes who went to "less rich" high schools.

Going there does not guarantee success anymore than going to Wakefield seals your doom.

So you would send your kids to Baltimore City schools?

Dp- you are asking if they would send their child to a dysfunctional school system, as opposed to APS? Are you implying Wakefield is similar to inner city Baltimore schools? You are a moron.

DP, but you don’t sound too bright. If only Wakefield was as good at STEM as Baltimore Poly.