Status of Eaton Renovation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

Eaton got overcrowded while still admitting a lot of OOB. They specifically adapted stairwells and sections of the library into office and learning space in order to fit more students. DCPS wanted to allow EOTP students to be able to go to a NW school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

Eaton got overcrowded while still admitting a lot of OOB. They specifically adapted stairwells and sections of the library into office and learning space in order to fit more students. DCPS wanted to allow EOTP students to be able to go to a NW school.

I hope that the Fire Marshall signed off on 'adapting' stairwells, especially since the school is overcrowded. And why should Eaton be stuck as DCPS's last vehicle to meet the demands of EOTP parents for an upper NW school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

It's been ratcheted back. Look at the data from the 16-17 lottery compared to 15-16. https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay

Where they still admit OOB students it generally is to make the budget work so that large class can be split into 2 or 3 and make the budget work.

This is certainly based on short term fuzzy math. By admitting OOB students to "make the budget" work to split a class, Eaton is committing to long term costs, both financial and educational, in that later grades and the schools itself get more and more overcrowded. And then the OOB students have a guaranteed path to Wilson which is already overcrowded. If DCPS is going to take more kids as a quick budget fix, then the offer should be for one year only, not a full ride through Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

Everyone at Eaton would love to know the answer to this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

Everyone at Eaton would love to know the answer to this.

Yup. +1.

[Anonymous]

It seems that DCPS really wants to keep elementary seats for OOB available in Upper NW. Eaton may be the last school in line to see the significant shift in IB/OOB, so the pressure is on to keep the OOB pipeline open at Eaton. It's probably too late to do it at other WOTP schools. Same with Eaton being the IB school for the Ward 3 homeless shelter. It's easier for DCPS to have space and resources challenges (and the attendant parent complaints) concentrated in one school rather than spreading the challenges among several nearby schools.

Perhaps Mr. Frumin was on to something when he characterized Eaton as Ward 3's "collateral damage."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that DCPS really wants to keep elementary seats for OOB available in Upper NW. Eaton may be the last school in line to see the significant shift in IB/OOB, so the pressure is on to keep the OOB pipeline open at Eaton. It's probably too late to do it at other WOTP schools. Same with Eaton being the IB school for the Ward 3 homeless shelter. It's easier for DCPS to have space and resources challenges (and the attendant parent complaints) concentrated in one school rather than spreading the challenges among several nearby schools.

Perhaps Mr. Frumin was on to something when he characterized Eaton as Ward 3's "collateral damage."

Actually Hyde has as many OOB as Eaton, perhaps more now because of the relocation for renovation.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the school is starting a SIT as of yesterday. They called for volunteers for it on Facebook.

Still don't see how a renovation beginning in June is feasible at this pace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that DCPS really wants to keep elementary seats for OOB available in Upper NW. Eaton may be the last school in line to see the significant shift in IB/OOB, so the pressure is on to keep the OOB pipeline open at Eaton. It's probably too late to do it at other WOTP schools. Same with Eaton being the IB school for the Ward 3 homeless shelter. It's easier for DCPS to have space and resources challenges (and the attendant parent complaints) concentrated in one school rather than spreading the challenges among several nearby schools.

Perhaps Mr. Frumin was on to something when he characterized Eaton as Ward 3's "collateral damage."

Actually Hyde has as many OOB as Eaton, perhaps more now because of the relocation for renovation.

Hyde had more OOB than Eaton before the renovation 42% IB to 50% IB (while FARMS Hyde 17%, Eaton 14%). Will be interesting to know the impact of the renovations on both schools tho.

[Anonymous]

Eaton's SIT would do well to meet with the SITs for Murch and H-A to try to gain an understanding of the process and challenges gained through others' experience.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, John Eaton but you're probably too late to the party. After Duke Ellington's spending spree, the era of fancy school renovations is definitely over. Forget about any notion of underground parking (Janney), new multipurpose space or installed artworks (Hearst). As a Ward 3 school, you'll really be on the chopping block, so take whatever DCPS offers to give you. Call your situation "collateral damage" if you like, but in DCPS as in life, luck and timing are everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers come from central office, not from the educators who actually work at Eaton.

Then why is the central office insisting on overcrowding Eaton when neighborhood enrollment is climbing? The reason for OOB enrollment is to make excess slots available rather than having them go unused. When a school is overcapacity, it's past time to ratchet back OOB enrollment. What exactly is DCPS thinks ng?

Eaton got overcrowded while still admitting a lot of OOB. They specifically adapted stairwells and sections of the library into office and learning space in order to fit more students. DCPS wanted to allow EOTP students to be able to go to a NW school.

How did that happen? Was the administration asleep at the switch?