JO Wilson vs. Ludlow-Taylor
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Is Whole Foods also coming to Eastern Market? |
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I would be disinclined to give much weight to the thoughts of someone who is bitching about Brent being full of rich white kids. Picking one school over another based on a simplistic metric such as overall DCCAS scores from one year (2013-14) is also among some of the dumbest advice I've seen on DCUM. Setting aside the fact that testing cohorts vary year to year, you also would need to drill down into how each grade and racial subgroup performed to try and draw anything approaching a meaningful conclusion, if you're so inclined. I happen to think it's a waste of time and energy. As for the "diversity" issue, Brent and LT are approximate mirror images of one another. Brent is roughly 70 percent white and 20 percent AA, while Ludlow is roughly 70 percent black and 20 percent white. So which is more "diverse" under this myopic metric. Both are good schools that continue to improve and implying one or the other is mediocre is a sign of dishonesty, lack of intelligence or possibly both. |
Anonymous
Potomac Gardens kids get first dibs on customers walking eastbound on Pennsylsvania Avenue. |
Anonymous
If you want a cheaper house with a big yard and huge middle school you might as well find a better one in Bethesda or McLean. |
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| to the OP. I think the original choice would have to be yours just tour both schools. My DS has been attending JO Wilson since last year and is now into his 2nd year, and yes I played the lottery for Ludlow Taylor and he got in but after a week of careful thought and understanding my child I decided to keep him where he is..... and is there any regrets....DEFINITELY NOT!!! He is learning alot and I love his teacher. A child would learn in any capacity given the right instructor and along with the parents. |
Anonymous
Potomac Gardens is the biggest boogeyman on the Hill -- I hear Hill-O-Ween is going to be in the PG courtyard this year so white folk can feel more authentically scared. |
Anonymous
Is your child in pK? If so, that's far removed from laying the groundwork for serious academics three four years down the road. |
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-1. Not funny. |
Anonymous
Good to hear crime is just another urban legend. I'm looking forward to the Snopes explanation of the data patterns on the MPD Crime Map. |
Anonymous
| I can't honestly speak to either school, but I can say that I really like the principal at JO Wilson, Heidi Hagerty. I think it would be worth your time to meet with her. |
Anonymous
it is coming to New Jersey Avenue SE, just south of the expressway. |
Anonymous
My concern is not so much diversity but rather expectations. It's not about LT having slightly better test scores last year and Brenr having better year before. Brent has a whopping 11% FARM population and barely has test scores in the low 70s. LT is Title 1 with slightly better scores. I know many people don't put too much weight on scores but when schools like Stoddert, Key, Mann, Murch etc have similar FARM population and has scores 20 points higher. That is not minimal. Don't people want to know what's going on at Brent (or what's not going on)? It's quite alarming no matter how you look at it. |
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I find Brent parents intriguing. They vacillate between being upset that they don't feed into SH and taking shots at SH. I think the overarching mentality seems to be that SH isn't a good school, but they should let Brent feed into it because just having Brent would make it better. And then some Brent parents speak of Latin and Basis as if they have a birthright to those schools. But here's what I find interesting: as Maury has approached or matched Brent and as LT has come up strong and JO has started to move in the right direction, Brent parents seem almost threatened. And that makes no sense to me. Why wouldn't a stronger school system benefit everyone? What's the thought process? You like being the only option? That feels good to you? Or is it that if LT and JO (and hopefully Watkins) continue along their trajectories that SH will become a strong MS option, which will make you feel somehow less special? Seriously, help me out here. Why would Brent parents hate on other schools. I know others hate on Brent out of jealousy, that makes sense to me. But what's the Brent though process? Is it a childish reflex that "s/he hit me first? |
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What makes you assume it's committed most (or at all) by the residents of stable Hill public housing? Does every criminal shit where they eat? |
Anonymous
Your purported concern about expectations at Brent is interesting but based on misinformation. Test scores for 2013-14 weren't barely in the low 70s unless you fail to account for kids testing as advanced. It would indeed be remarkable if schools like Stoddart, Key and Mann - or any school for that matter - was testing at or above 100 percent. Brent parents and those still paying eomething of a premium to move in-bound despite the current middle school situation know exactly what is going on in the school. It's the reason there's a PK waiting list for in-bound siblings this year. I'm sorry you find any of this so mysterious. But please, do us all a favor and take your perverse agenda somewhere else. |