Got of waitlist at SWS. Switch?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reality, PP. If the FARMs rate is greater than around 25%, it emerges as a detriment for learning for all the kids. A large corpus of academic literature bears this out. Yea, reality bites.

Then move to MoCo. Don't contaminate a school that's supposed to be citywide (and thus should reflect city demographics) with your racism.

More than 2/3 of SWS students are white, the case for almost 20 years now. Right, the student population should reflect city demographics (40% white). Sounds like you've got your cut out for you in battling racists to make that happen. Get to it why don't you.

Women like you aren't worth arguing with but for anyone reading who doesn't realize most of the school was admitted before it was a city wide school. Even now that it is city wide the expectation is that it will trend towards the demographics of the city population that is willing to commute to the location (which is different from what's there today but also different from the overall city demographics). It's also DCUM sport for someone like her to tag most of these threads with the racist label.

Hey - just who was the first person to raise race on this thread? It was the person who was crowing over the lower percentage of "FARMS" at SWS as compared to a school a few blocks away.

[Anonymous]

It was like yesterday when everyone was dumping on SWS for being lousy, the test scores are atrocious, the MS program sucks, blah, blah, blah. Then this year, they had some decent test scores and all of a sudden there's all this lavish praise. Oh how fickle the DCUM community is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reality, PP. If the FARMs rate is greater than around 25%, it emerges as a detriment for learning for all the kids. A large corpus of academic literature bears this out. Yea, reality bites.

Then move to MoCo. Don't contaminate a school that's supposed to be citywide (and thus should reflect city demographics) with your racism.

More than 2/3 of SWS students are white, the case for almost 20 years now. Right, the student population should reflect city demographics (40% white). Sounds like you've got your cut out for you in battling racists to make that happen. Get to it why don't you.

Women like you aren't worth arguing with but for anyone reading who doesn't realize most of the school was admitted before it was a city wide school. Even now that it is city wide the expectation is that it will trend towards the demographics of the city population that is willing to commute to the location (which is different from what's there today but also different from the overall city demographics). It's also DCUM sport for someone like her to tag most of these threads with the racist label.

Hey - just who was the first person to raise race on this thread? It was the person who was crowing over the lower percentage of "FARMS" at SWS as compared to a school a few blocks away.

That first comment wasn't me. Sure it looks like a swipe at Watkins and I can see how, reading quickly, you might make the leap to thinking it was "SWS crowning" in the context of the conversation. But really all it says is (in a snarky way) is that over 25% FARMS is something to watch for and someone decided to take a swipe at Watkins for that. Your jumping at shadows interpreted it as SWS racism.

[Anonymous]

Switch, absolutely.

And buy cheaper than elsewhere bananas, milk, eggs and yogurt at the nearby Trader Joe's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was like yesterday when everyone was dumping on SWS for being lousy, the test scores are atrocious, the MS program sucks, blah, blah, blah. Then this year, they had some decent test scores and all of a sudden there's all this lavish praise. Oh how fickle the DCUM community is.

The MS program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was like yesterday when everyone was dumping on SWS for being lousy, the test scores are atrocious, the MS program sucks, blah, blah, blah. Then this year, they had some decent test scores and all of a sudden there's all this lavish praise. Oh how fickle the DCUM community is.

The MS program?

You are thinking of Francis Stevens.

SWW gets a DCUM applause for one and only one reason: it's the whitest "city wide" school in dc, so that's what some parents are all about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was like yesterday when everyone was dumping on SWS for being lousy, the test scores are atrocious, the MS program sucks, blah, blah, blah. Then this year, they had some decent test scores and all of a sudden there's all this lavish praise. Oh how fickle the DCUM community is.

The MS program?

You are thinking of Francis Stevens.

SWW gets a DCUM applause for one and only one reason: it's the whitest "city wide" school in dc, so that's what some parents are all about.

Washington Latin will soon be whitest high school. The middle school already is.

[Anonymous]

Yes god forbid there be a bunch of white children at any particular school. The horror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes god forbid there be a bunch of white children at any particular school. The horror.

Two city wide DCPS located within 7 blocks of one another
SWS: Black: 20% , Hispanic/Latino: 4%, White: 68%, Asian: 1%, Pacific/Hawaiian: 0%, Native/Alaskan: 0% Multiple races: 7%
CHML: Black: 58%, Hispanic/Latino: 2%, White: 34%, Asian: 1%, Pacific/Hawaiian: 0%, Native/Alaskan: 0%, Multiple races: 6%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes god forbid there be a bunch of white children at any particular school. The horror.

Two city wide DCPS located within 7 blocks of one another
SWS: Black: 20% , Hispanic/Latino: 4%, White: 68%, Asian: 1%, Pacific/Hawaiian: 0%, Native/Alaskan: 0% Multiple races: 7%
CHML: Black: 58%, Hispanic/Latino: 2%, White: 34%, Asian: 1%, Pacific/Hawaiian: 0%, Native/Alaskan: 0%, Multiple races: 6%

Apples and oranges, but nice try stirring the pot.

The assumption is that SWS is considered an attractive option for all groups and should trend towards the city wide demographics of those within the drawing radius once the city wide preference takes over in the next couple years.

For many HHI families nearby CHML isn't in the same tier. Plenty of other DCUM threads on reasons and opinions.

[ACP123]

OP here. Want to thank all of the people on this thread who responded to me. I didn't respond earlier because somehow I didn't turn on notifications. I am new to this forum! Having this insight is tremendously helpful. I just want to say, based on some of the comments on this thread, but our decision is not based on FARMS percentages or racial diversity/concentration - except to say that I was very favorably impressed by diversity on many dimensions, including medical status, in the lower grades at SWS, which will carry through as those classes grow up. Again, I want to thank everyone – especially on the reassurances about switching young. I have looked on these forums for a while, never participated before. And I have almost never seen consensus on anything. But everybody here said "switch," and that doesn't make the decision for me, but it's a very, very powerful signal. Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

ACP123 wrote: OP here. Want to thank all of the people on this thread who responded to me. I didn't respond earlier because somehow I didn't turn on notifications. I am new to this forum! Having this insight is tremendously helpful. I just want to say, based on some of the comments on this thread, but our decision is not based on FARMS percentages or racial diversity/concentration - except to say that I was very favorably impressed by diversity on many dimensions, including medical status, in the lower grades at SWS, which will carry through as those classes grow up. Again, I want to thank everyone – especially on the reassurances about switching young. I have looked on these forums for a while, never participated before. And I have almost never seen consensus on anything. But everybody here said "switch," and that doesn't make the decision for me, but it's a very, very powerful signal. Thanks again.

Welcome to SWS! Please feel free to come to the parent coffee on Oct 14, right after drop off. It's in front of the multipurpose room. You can grab breakfast and meet some new people!

[Anonymous]

Another welcome to SWS! Our kids will probably be in the same class (I noticed the class is short one kid right now). You will love the teacher and school.

[Anonymous]

ACP123 wrote: OP here. Want to thank all of the people on this thread who responded to me. I didn't respond earlier because somehow I didn't turn on notifications. I am new to this forum! Having this insight is tremendously helpful. I just want to say, based on some of the comments on this thread, but our decision is not based on FARMS percentages or racial diversity/concentration - except to say that I was very favorably impressed by diversity on many dimensions,[b] including medical status, in the lower grades at SWS[/b], which will carry through as those classes grow up. Again, I want to thank everyone – especially on the reassurances about switching young. I have looked on these forums for a while, never participated before. And I have almost never seen consensus on anything. But everybody here said "switch," and that doesn't make the decision for me, but it's a very, very powerful signal. Thanks again.

I'd add that DCUM focuses way too much on race and HHI in discussing diversity and not much on things like SPED. SWS is 1/5 AA, but also has 1/5 of its students are SPED and the students with IEPs do very well here. There may be overlap but it's a different kind of diversity than often discussed here.