Maryland Kids Attending DC Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

*hasn't* you mean. I haven't heard of any residency cheaters at Brent. The issue at Brent is that IB parents can't get into PK because there are too many IB kids. Maybe the solution would be to start passing around more birth control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a DCPS and have direct knowledge of a lot of residency cheaters. But, I strongly disagree that the answer is more school choice. I think that hurt our neighborhood schools. And, the school voucher program is a total disaster. Many of the schools are shameful, and students who attend them are severely behind grade level.

So, I'm not interested in participating. I absolutely agree that DCPS and OSSE need to increase their investigations and removal of residency cheaters. But I disagree with your methods and message.

DCPS parent here. Agree 100%.

[Anonymous]

Pay more taxes gladly with the increase earmarked for public education. Build a lot more schools. Staff all schools with good educators not TFA and deadweight (Send the duds to a low impact/high workload position at central office. They will quit). Quality free pre-school for all and the slots are closest to your home zip unless you work in DC, then it's closest to your work site if you prefer. If a parent wants to transfer their child to an OOB school, they must either show the need to work near by or devote 8 hours a month to volunteering at the school. Didn't volunteer last month? No health issues stopping you? Fine. Your child is sent back to the home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pay more taxes gladly with the increase earmarked for public education. Build a lot more schools. Staff all schools with good educators not TFA and deadweight (Send the duds to a low impact/high workload position at central office. They will quit). Quality free pre-school for all and the slots are closest to your home zip unless you work in DC, then it's closest to your work site if you prefer. If a parent wants to transfer their child to an OOB school, they must either show the need to work near by or devote 8 hours a month to volunteering at the school. Didn't volunteer last month? No health issues stopping you? Fine. Your child is sent back to the home school.

We're talking about kids from MARYLAND using DC schools. Not DC kids going to OOB schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay more taxes gladly with the increase earmarked for public education. Build a lot more schools. Staff all schools with good educators not TFA and deadweight (Send the duds to a low impact/high workload position at central office. They will quit). Quality free pre-school for all and the slots are closest to your home zip unless you work in DC, then it's closest to your work site if you prefer. If a parent wants to transfer their child to an OOB school, they must either show the need to work near by or devote 8 hours a month to volunteering at the school. Didn't volunteer last month? No health issues stopping you? Fine. Your child is sent back to the home school.

We're talking about kids from MARYLAND using DC schools. Not DC kids going to OOB schools.

I do know that there are MD kids that use DC schools that pay tuition to use those schools - Duke Ellington School for the Arts, for example. Do you know that the supposed "cheaters" aren't paying tuition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pay more taxes gladly with the increase earmarked for public education. Build a lot more schools. Staff all schools with good educators not TFA and deadweight (Send the duds to a low impact/high workload position at central office. They will quit). Quality free pre-school for all and the slots are closest to your home zip unless you work in DC, then it's closest to your work site if you prefer. If a parent wants to transfer their child to an OOB school, they must either show the need to work near by or devote 8 hours a month to volunteering at the school. Didn't volunteer last month? No health issues stopping you? Fine. Your child is sent back to the home school.

Couldn't disagree more.

Pay less and fewer taxes - they already support deadweight in terms of the teacher union faculty which has been under-performing for decades, and the non-resident freeloaders who don't belong there in the first place. We already have the most expensive school district in the country - so obviously the overpaid staffers from MD are simply sucking us dry. If they were any good at anything, we would have seen results by now. (Or, they'd have managed to get employed in their home district of PG County, but look - it's results as dismal as well).

No problem with the volunteering suggestion though. Either volunteer or write a fat check to make up for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay more taxes gladly with the increase earmarked for public education. Build a lot more schools. Staff all schools with good educators not TFA and deadweight (Send the duds to a low impact/high workload position at central office. They will quit). Quality free pre-school for all and the slots are closest to your home zip unless you work in DC, then it's closest to your work site if you prefer. If a parent wants to transfer their child to an OOB school, they must either show the need to work near by or devote 8 hours a month to volunteering at the school. Didn't volunteer last month? No health issues stopping you? Fine. Your child is sent back to the home school.

We're talking about kids from MARYLAND using DC schools. Not DC kids going to OOB schools.

I do know that there are MD kids that use DC schools that pay tuition to use those schools - Duke Ellington School for the Arts, for example. Do you know that the supposed "cheaters" aren't paying tuition?

As we've learned from the DC Caller series, they're *supposed* to pay tuition. However, they don't and they don't get billed for it. Why? Because the people doing the billing are their cronies who aren't paying either.

Your tax dollars at work.

[Anonymous]

The last week in August - go stand at the Landover Metro Stop in the morning. See all the kids in DC Uniforms. Get on metro and you will see that they are not going to school in MD.

Stop by Friendship Collegiate Academy during a football practice. Count the # of MD plates.

Hang outside of any of the hill schools and count the MD tags.

DC needs to prosecute and publicize. Sue these families for back tuition and make others aware.

Finally make sure every other student in the city knows the risk for their family of potential fraud. Make large posters so that students know what will happen to their family. Display the cost for fraudulently attending school and explain that there is 0 tolerance - if identified you must leave school immediately. It does not matter when in the year the fraud is identified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The last week in August - go stand at the Landover Metro Stop in the morning. See all the kids in DC Uniforms. Get on metro and you will see that they are not going to school in MD.

Stop by Friendship Collegiate Academy during a football practice. Count the # of MD plates.

Hang outside of any of the hill schools and count the MD tags.

DC needs to prosecute and publicize. Sue these families for back tuition and make others aware.

Finally make sure every other student in the city knows the risk for their family of potential fraud. Make large posters so that students know what will happen to their family. Display the cost for fraudulently attending school and explain that there is 0 tolerance - if identified you must leave school immediately. It does not matter when in the year the fraud is identified.

This is absurd. Most of DCPS is run by people who live in Maryland. Why would they want to prosecute themselves? Get real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?

I think they should be much more concerned about things like DC statehood and funding for metro than supposed MD parents stealing "their" slot at Miner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?

I think they should be much more concerned about things like DC statehood and funding for metro than supposed MD parents stealing "their" slot at Miner.

+1. I could care less if MD families "steal" preschool spots from DC gentrifiers (my own small children attend a charter, my 10th choice of 12). Maybe these kids won't end up in breaking into my house ten years from now.

But I care that I lack a voting rep in Congress, and that half the Metro elevators don't seem to be working on any given day, leaving me dependent on good Samaritans to carry my double stroller up and down Metro stairs. With the federal government lavishing resources on DC schools on a per capita basis to a far greater extent than in states, we're spoiled by support and let down by leadership. If we had a strong mayor serving two terms and DCPS leadership with a vision (keep most gentrifiers in city schools through high school and everybody wins) and matters will improve. Kicking MD kids out of DC early childhood programs, and frightening them from signing up, won't make a damn bit of difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?

No. Because it's not their tax dollars. It's DC tax dollars and they live in Maryland.

Can't you read?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list. Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently. Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement! It's *free preschool.* Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K. Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K. They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake. Hard to feel that sympathetic.

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?

I think they should be much more concerned about things like DC statehood and funding for metro than supposed MD parents stealing "their" slot at Miner.

+1. I could care less if MD families "steal" preschool spots from DC gentrifiers (my own small children attend a charter, my 10th choice of 12). Maybe these kids won't end up in breaking into my house ten years from now.

But I care that I lack a voting rep in Congress, and that half the Metro elevators don't seem to be working on any given day, leaving me dependent on good Samaritans to carry my double stroller up and down Metro stairs. With the federal government lavishing resources on DC schools on a per capita basis to a far greater extent than in states, we're spoiled by support and let down by leadership. If we had a strong mayor serving two terms and DCPS leadership with a vision (keep most gentrifiers in city schools through high school and everybody wins) and matters will improve. Kicking MD kids out of DC early childhood programs, and frightening them from signing up, won't make a damn bit of difference.

ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa...

As a DC resident, I can't at all support the idea of DC statehood. We're incapable of good government. I'd no more like DC to be a state than I'd like HAITI to be a state.

Here's a thought: eliminate the federal tax burden so that no-one can complain about "taxation without representation." Boom - that complaint is now gone. Then, more wonky people who care about their money will move here, and maybe if enough of them move here we can start electing representatives that aren't a joke and embarrassment to the country. Let's be more like Monaco and less like Baltimore.