Janney third grade parents--what do you think of the giant class sizes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, not including SWW, Ellington and Banneker, or the EC's:

Anacostia: 661
Ballou: 755
Coolidge: 395
Dunbar: 653
Eastern: 1025
Woodson: 639
McKinley Tech: 645
Roosevelt: 476



Deal: 1312
Wilson: 1788

How many more kids can fit into Deal and Wilson???

Didn't Bowser promise "Alice Deal for all"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, not including SWW, Ellington and Banneker, or the EC's:

Anacostia: 661
Ballou: 755
Coolidge: 395
Dunbar: 653
Eastern: 1025
Woodson: 639
McKinley Tech: 645
Roosevelt: 476



Deal: 1312
Wilson: 1788

How many more kids can fit into Deal and Wilson???

Even more ridiculous, over the past 6 years, DCPS has allowed Janney, Murch, and Lafayette elementary schools to become larger than all of those except for Eastern and Ballou.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:No, the real solution is to build another ES in upper NW DC, which is not going to happen but is the natural solution when all neighboring schools are also overcrowded. Then some ES will need to be rezoned to Hardy.
Is Wilsok over crowded?

The last thing we need to do is build another ES in upper NW. If Eaton (45% IB) and Hearst (27% IB) had realistic boundaries and average W3 IB participation rates (85%), there would space for 359 kids.

If Janney parents to prefer to have kids sitting on each other laps, so be it.

Hearst is only desirable to Janney parents if they can fully take it over and reconfigure it to their specific needs (a la an early childhood campus for Janney). Of course, the needs and desires of current Hearst families weren't even considered because apparently Janney has a birth right over all things Ward 3 .

No, but as long as DC is to have a neighborhood school system in theory, the needs and desires of those in Ward 3 have to take longterm priority over those in other parts of the city who understandably want to Continue to enjoy wide access to schools like Hearst.

Yep ! You nailed it.

DCPS could make St Ann's a PK to 3rd grade facilities, with the current Janney building becoming a 4th to 8th Grades school. That would relieve both Deal and Janney.

[Anonymous]

Smart money is on Wash Latin buying St Ann's. So Ward 3 people can try to lottery into there after 4th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, not including SWW, Ellington and Banneker, or the EC's:

Anacostia: 661
Ballou: 755
Coolidge: 395
Dunbar: 653
Eastern: 1025
Woodson: 639
McKinley Tech: 645
Roosevelt: 476



Deal: 1312
Wilson: 1788

How many more kids can fit into Deal and Wilson???

Wow, does Mary Chech know about this? She should be outraged that her constitutes kids are being packed into a school building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, not including SWW, Ellington and Banneker, or the EC's:

Anacostia: 661
Ballou: 755
Coolidge: 395
Dunbar: 653
Eastern: 1025
Woodson: 639
McKinley Tech: 645
Roosevelt: 476



Deal: 1312
Wilson: 1788



How many more kids can fit into Deal and Wilson???

Wow, does Mary Chech know about this? She should be outraged that her constitutes kids are being packed into a school building.

How can you not?! It's simple math and everyone seems to be ignoring it because no one wants to deal with it.

[Anonymous]

I heard that the new Wilson Principal dismissed some OOB students who were not maintaining a certain grade average. Deal should follow suit and maybe gpa has to be 3.0 to stay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard that the new Wilson Principal dismissed some OOB students who were not maintaining a certain grade average. Deal should follow suit and maybe gpa has to be 3.0 to stay

That doesn't really work at Deal as the grades are awkward with the IB system trying to mesh with DCPS's rules in a way that actually doesn't seem work at all.

[Anonymous]

Re-district part of Janney now. Simple, obvious, reasonable, and right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re-district part of Janney now. Simple, obvious, reasonable, and right.

Well, not so obvious. First, there's no point in rezoning to other schools that are also overcrowded, like Lafayette or Murch. So that leaves rezoning to Hearst or Mann. What is the current capacity of those buildings and IB %?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re-district part of Janney now. Simple, obvious, reasonable, and right.

Well, not so obvious. First, there's no point in rezoning to other schools that are also overcrowded, like Lafayette or Murch. So that leaves rezoning to Hearst or Mann. What is the current capacity of those buildings and IB %?

Mann is full. Key is way over capacity and out of room for trailers.

Dcps should reclaim old Hardy school on Foxhall.

[Anonymous]

Frankly, and I posted this upthread, but the other obvious temporary solution is for Janney to have trailers. I would be happy to sacrifice garden space for one trailer so my child was not in a 32 person class.

Does anyone know if this was proposed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, and I posted this upthread, but the other obvious temporary solution is for Janney to have trailers. I would be happy to sacrifice garden space for one trailer so my child was not in a 32 person class.

Does anyone know if this was proposed?

I think there is some sort of agreement with the city or ordinance that won't allow trailers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, and I posted this upthread, but the other obvious temporary solution is for Janney to have trailers. I would be happy to sacrifice garden space for one trailer so my child was not in a 32 person class.

Does anyone know if this was proposed?

I think there is some sort of agreement with the city or ordinance that won't allow trailers.

I thought that was only on the part that has the underground garage on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, and I posted this upthread, but the other obvious temporary solution is for Janney to have trailers. I would be happy to sacrifice garden space for one trailer so my child was not in a 32 person class.

Does anyone know if this was proposed?

I think there is some sort of agreement with the city or ordinance that won't allow trailers.

I thought that was only on the part that has the underground garage on it.

Does anyone have actual knowledge about the legal constraints relating to trailers? What could the rules be? The school is practically on Wisconsin Ave, so it can't be a zoning issue.