JLG vs McDuffie on public schools
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Anonymous
I definitely know families with HHIs in the 200ks who get financial aid from GDS. this is very normal for the private school. You should apply! |
Anonymous
No, no I don't have any friends who use the private schools. None. And we all presumably make enough to afford some of them (not a GDS - except on charity!) but it would be a stretch. The people I am friends with are strong supporters of public education. As should be our next mayor. Sadly, McDuffie and JLG fall short. |
Anonymous
It's not a consideration. DCPS as a system is designed to offer neighborhood elementaries accessible to IB students on foot. The suburban model doesn't work the same way in the city. If you want huge consolidated schools, move to the suburbs. |
Anonymous
Combined $200K is “needy” in the private school world absent substantial assets apart from home equity. We are full pay at pricey private and couldn’t imagine how mere $200K types could swing it. But if they are good families, I’m happy to have them as part of the community. Nice to have some academics, non-profiters, fed employees too! |
Anonymous
| GDS for all! |
Anonymous
+1, these schools aren't doing charity. They give financial aid to students they think will succeed at the schools. That usually means stable homes and educated parents. The vast majority of families can't afford GDS tuition, so it's a way to improve their diversity (of all kinds, including socioeconomic). But they aren't giving out prizes for the neediest families. GDS probably wouldn't serve a truly needy family well because they don't offer the services such a family would need, and it would be difficult for truly need kids to find a sense of belonging at a school where many families easily afford the huge sticker price. |
Anonymous
This is really wild to me. Maybe i've just lived in the city for too long and have been a parent for more than a decade. I have friends with kids in Title 1 DCPS, wealthy DCPS, charter and private. The whole gamut. Everyone is making choices that work for their family. I can't imagine judging each other. |
Anonymous
Is this somethingthey want? |
Anonymous
Same. I also think it's older kids though, too. And having a diverse friend group. One of my daughter's best friends is at a private but they met in our public neighborhood DCPS. I know the family isn't wealth and they get financial aid because we've discussed our school situation with them and concerns about middle school, and they've told us that they would walk us through the FA process if we decided to go that route. They pay less than 50% of the sticker price. There is also self selection bias. We also know a family who is militant about DCPS or bust and very disapproving of charters (much less private). They will be friends with us because our kids are in DCPS, but they would drop us in a heartbeat if we move to a charter or private. The mom often makes comments to me trying to fish for whether we are going to the feeder middle school. We might, we haven't ruled it out, but we're exploring all options. I can't tell her that though, she'd be mad. |
Anonymous
This is what I worry about. Parents will be completely cut out and have no say in anything. |
Anonymous
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I actually don't even know where you find these private school people. OH WAIT - this is DCUM - everyone lives in Upper Caucasia! Sorry, forgot.
I've also been a DC parent for 13 years and resident for almost 20. I know a lot of people, but I don't know any private school families barring one or two at the local Catholic (at a low price tag). |
Anonymous
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IMPACT has been pretty successful actually. But WTU hates it, so, of course, Janeese wants to get rid of it. Their wish is her command.
"And all of the rigorous research we have suggests that it worked basically as intended. The canonical studies on this issue — by teams from the University of Virginia, Stanford, and Brown — found that when teachers rated “ineffective” left schools, they tended to be replaced by better-performing educators, and students’ results improved. Even though some effective teachers exited too, turnover had an overall positive impact on achievement — suggesting the good of the policy outweighed the bad of any “instability” it created, as one DCPS report noted. The same was true later years, after IMPACT underwent revisions that lessened its emphasis on test scores. What’s more, a separate paper found compelling evidence that the system was spurring educators who stayed in D.C. to improve their teaching skills. (Mathematica’s research also found that Fenty’s broader set of reforms, including IMPACT, bore fruit). Nonetheless, nixing IMPACT has remained one of the teachers’ union’s major goals. Now it’s backing Lewis George, who has promised to deliver on it." https://capitalcommonsense.substack.com/p/im-a-dcps-parent-janeese-lewis-georges?r=9c2s&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true |
Anonymous
This is why a mayoral candidate who sends their kids to GDS should not be elected. He's seen the other side, and he said nope. Not my kids. How can he possibly understand anything outside of the crony type political world and its elite donors? If he does understand, he has spent a lot of money and his adult life trying to make sure his kids don't have any contact with it. Meanwhile, those of us at DCPS and charters are intentionally trying to ensure our kids have exposure to diversity of all sorts. |
Anonymous
I live in Ward 4 EOTP and my kids are at a Title I DCPS school, and I know multiple families with kids in private schools - parochial in MoCo and Ward 3, Jewish Day School just down the street, and comically expensive private schools in Ward 3. And though we've always been DCPS, I also know dozens of families at charters, many who are committed to language acquisition above most everything else, and other families who are focusing almost all of their free time on music or dance lessons even though their kids are young because they have their eye on Ellington. There are a lot of different options in DC and I don't think it's strange to know people who make different choices. |
Anonymous
ummmm.... i live EOTP and so do the private school families I know. This is one of the options for people who are not IB for Jackson Reed (us non-Ward 3 residents are most likely to exercise school choice.) Guess what, some aren't even "caucasian!" Some had their kids in DCPS first then went private for upper grades, some charter in the same scenario, some people start in DCPS and move to charters. I agree that this probably relates to having middle and high schoolers. IME people get a lot less judgemental. You see how quickly your kids childhood is moving and people get a little more serious about prioritizing a good education. |