MacArthur High School

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

Why absurd? In the 80s, 90s and early 2000s dozens of SES Cap Hill teens lotteried into Wilson annually. In fact, our block near the Capitol Hill South Metro station (D St, 2nd St.) was zoned for Wilson from the mid 80s until 2014. Some of us were cautiously optimistic that there would be room for some Cap Hill students at MacArthur this fall. But very few seem to have made the 9th grade lottery cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

Why absurd? In the 80s, 90s and early 2000s dozens of SES Cap Hill teens lotteried into Wilson annually. In fact, our block near the Capitol Hill South Metro station (D St, 2nd St.) was zoned for Wilson from the mid 80s until 2014. Some of us were cautiously optimistic that there would be room for some Cap Hill students at MacArthur this fall. But very few seem to have made the 9th grade lottery cut.

Sadly Eastern simply is a bit of a basket case. But it was absurd that in the mid 1990s, all neighborhoods with white kids were zoned for a high school that sometimes was literally miles and miles away, so they wouldn't need to go to a majority african american school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know from Hardy is going to MacArthur and I know a bunch of people at JR moving over to MacArthur as well.

yeah, a bunch of 9th graders are JR entered the lottery; i think they got preference too.

[Anonymous]

JR is fine but crowded. Capitol Hill just needs to attend its in bound schools en masse. I know that is not at all an answer if your child is approaching high school.

[Anonymous]

Well I want more then fine. But alas...I'm stuck with fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JR is fine but crowded. Capitol Hill just needs to attend its in bound schools en masse. I know that is not at all an answer if your child is approaching high school.

So easy to say from Upper NW. Not an answer ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

They’ve got great facilities.

Oh wait, you meant fewer poors.

It isn't poor people I object to. It's 93% of kids behind grade level and a culture of low expectations perpetuated by people like you who refuse to demand more. I don't want my kid in classes with kids behind grade level. I don't want my kid in a school with kids that cannot behave. I don't want my kids in schools where people like you think demanding academic excellence is "racist".

By all means, continue to win your little faux equity battle while kids with options whom you resent find alternatives and POC without options are failed for yet another generation. That'll teach me!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The principal at MacArthur seems to be the real deal and based on what I am hearing, the educators he has hired have great reputations as well. I would be highly concerned with a new school however it appears MacArthur is being built on a solid foundation of teachers, admin and course offerings to make it competitive.

NP with no horse in the JR vs MHS race. But my lord people. How can you be drinking the Kool-Aid when it hadn't even been poured yet?

I agree. And even if the school starts off positively, DCPS will find a way to mess it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JR is fine but crowded. Capitol Hill just needs to attend its in bound schools en masse. I know that is not at all an answer if your child is approaching high school.

Correction - JR is not fine. It is a hot mess. Just because it is more appealing than most other DCPS high schools does not mean it is fine.

And frankly I have a hard time believing that the MacArthur principal is a knight in shining armor like many parents are desperately trying to imagine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

They’ve got great facilities.

Oh wait, you meant fewer poors.

It isn't poor people I object to. It's 93% of kids behind grade level and a culture of low expectations perpetuated by people like you who refuse to demand more. I don't want my kid in classes with kids behind grade level. I don't want my kid in a school with kids that cannot behave. I don't want my kids in schools where people like you think demanding academic excellence is "racist".

By all means, continue to win your little faux equity battle while kids with options whom you resent find alternatives and POC without options are failed for yet another generation. That'll teach me!

+1000!!!

[Anonymous]

How many years would you give MHS to prove whether or not they are performing well? When will the data speak for itself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many years would you give MHS to prove whether or not they are performing well? When will the data speak for itself?

At least 5 years minimum. You really need a good amount of data and to see the trend in performance and before you can make any conclusions. You need to see at least 2-3 graduating classes

1-2 years is nothing and you cannot extrapolate from such few data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

They’ve got great facilities.

Oh wait, you meant fewer poors.

It isn't poor people I object to. It's 93% of kids behind grade level and a culture of low expectations perpetuated by people like you who refuse to demand more. I don't want my kid in classes with kids behind grade level. I don't want my kid in a school with kids that cannot behave. I don't want my kids in schools where people like you think demanding academic excellence is "racist".

By all means, continue to win your little faux equity battle while kids with options whom you resent find alternatives and POC without options are failed for yet another generation. That'll teach me!

+1000!!!

The problem is you. If the kids zoned for Eastern would enroll and attend, you would get what you’re seeking. CH folks are too scattered going to various charters. You and your neighbors need to make an intentional effort to attend Eastern and you’d automatically have the peer group you’re looking for. Hardy did it. Wells appears to be doing it. What’s up with Capitol Hill?

[Anonymous]

Nope nope nope. You could say the same things to me and my neighbors in ward 5 - just all agree to send your kids to Dunbar and make it a great school, why don’t you?! You have no idea what you’re talking about. The high school choice starts in middle school EOTP. There’s no central appealing middle school to feed to any high school and nobody waits until 9th grade to make a pact with neighbors to attend a school with next to no kids on grade level with no academic differentiation or programming. Please do not opine on things you know nothing about while sitting perched in upper NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is wrong. As of my latest data point, 2/3 of Hardy students choosing between JR and MHS choose MHS.

All "lottery seats" were matched with students attending Deal and Oyster. So the student body will be Hardy/Deal/Oyster almost exclusively.

. Really? Same old story, Capitol Hill gets the short end of the stick on DC public high schools.

Capitol Hill deserves better by-right HSs. But the idea that Macarthur would be part of the CH solution is absurd.

They’ve got great facilities.

Oh wait, you meant fewer poors.

It isn't poor people I object to. It's 93% of kids behind grade level and a culture of low expectations perpetuated by people like you who refuse to demand more. I don't want my kid in classes with kids behind grade level. I don't want my kid in a school with kids that cannot behave. I don't want my kids in schools where people like you think demanding academic excellence is "racist".

By all means, continue to win your little faux equity battle while kids with options whom you resent find alternatives and POC without options are failed for yet another generation. That'll teach me!

Are you afraid the kids behind grade level are going to infect your children somehow? Are your kids so delicate that they can thrive only if they are surrounded by kids you consider to be their academic peers?

Seems like you’re the one perpetuating a culture of low expectations….