Any Eaton parents here?

[Anonymous]

Thank you all! I truly appreciate your input.

[Anonymous]

I went to Eaton in the 80s. I loved it. It was considered one of the best, perhaps the best, elementary school in the city. What happened - why are people dogging it?

Granted we then had a newly renovated building. It was full of kids from all walks of life - students from 30 different countries ranging from low income immigrants to diplomats' kids, congressmen's kids, kids from all over the city. Very diverse. I am so grateful I got to attend - it truly made an enormous impact on who I am as a human being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Eaton in the 80s. I loved it. It was considered one of the best, perhaps the best, elementary school in the city. What happened - why are people dogging it?

Granted we then had a newly renovated building. It was full of kids from all walks of life - students from 30 different countries ranging from low income immigrants to diplomats' kids, congressmen's kids, kids from all over the city. Very diverse. I am so grateful I got to attend - it truly made an enormous impact on who I am as a human being.

Because people here LOVE to be down on other schools.

Eaton is still an incredibly diverse school in every way. I love that my kid is exposed to so many different walks of life. And we have lots of embassy kids, so I feel like she really does get a chance to learn about other countries' traditions as well as many parents will come present about their countries or do something for a holiday unique to their culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Eaton in the 80s. I loved it. It was considered one of the best, perhaps the best, elementary school in the city. What happened - why are people dogging it?

Granted we then had a newly renovated building. It was full of kids from all walks of life - students from 30 different countries ranging from low income immigrants to diplomats' kids, congressmen's kids, kids from all over the city. Very diverse. I am so grateful I got to attend - it truly made an enormous impact on who I am as a human being.

Because people here LOVE to be down on other schools.

Eaton is still an incredibly diverse school in every way. I love that my kid is exposed to so many different walks of life. And we have lots of embassy kids, so I feel like she really does get a chance to learn about other countries' traditions as well as many parents will come present about their countries or do something for a holiday unique to their culture.

dp: Er, no. I'm the "too crowded" poster and I am negative about it because my kids went there. We changed to a school we love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Eaton in the 80s. I loved it. It was considered one of the best, perhaps the best, elementary school in the city. What happened - why are people dogging it?

Granted we then had a newly renovated building. It was full of kids from all walks of life - students from 30 different countries ranging from low income immigrants to diplomats' kids, congressmen's kids, kids from all over the city. Very diverse. I am so grateful I got to attend - it truly made an enormous impact on who I am as a human being.

Because people here LOVE to be down on other schools.

Eaton is still an incredibly diverse school in every way. I love that my kid is exposed to so many different walks of life. And we have lots of embassy kids, so I feel like she really does get a chance to learn about other countries' traditions as well as many parents will come present about their countries or do something for a holiday unique to their culture.

dp: Er, no. I'm the "too crowded" poster and I am negative about it because my kids went there. We changed to a school we love.

Can you expand on what you don't like other than it's too crowded?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Eaton in the 80s. I loved it. It was considered one of the best, perhaps the best, elementary school in the city. What happened - why are people dogging it?

Granted we then had a newly renovated building. It was full of kids from all walks of life - students from 30 different countries ranging from low income immigrants to diplomats' kids, congressmen's kids, kids from all over the city. Very diverse. I am so grateful I got to attend - it truly made an enormous impact on who I am as a human being.

Because people here LOVE to be down on other schools.

Eaton is still an incredibly diverse school in every way. I love that my kid is exposed to so many different walks of life. And we have lots of embassy kids, so I feel like she really does get a chance to learn about other countries' traditions as well as many parents will come present about their countries or do something for a holiday unique to their culture.

dp: Er, no. I'm the "too crowded" poster and I am negative about it because my kids went there. We changed to a school we love.

Can you expand on what you don't like other than it's too crowded?

See post at 20:42 yesterday. Obviously, most families at Eaton really like Eaton. We didn't. Just throwing that view in the mix.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Great families. Too crowded, too regimented about both behavior and curriculum, inconsistent teacher quality.

What is hard to understand is if Eaton is overcrowded, why does it offer so many spots to OOB students? Isn't the logical response to overcrowding to focus on dialing back the OOB enrollment level?

This seems the logical thing to do. I worry that in the renovation, DCPS will want to expand school capacity significantly and cram even more kids into this postage stamp-sized school site because it's good politics for the mayor to keep WOTP school slots available. Other NW elementaries either flipped completely to IB a while ago and/or were recently renovated and can't be expanded further again. Maybe DCPS can add a few stories onto Eaton with a rooftop playground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great families. Too crowded, too regimented about both behavior and curriculum, inconsistent teacher quality.

What is hard to understand is if Eaton is overcrowded, why does it offer so many spots to OOB students? Isn't the logical response to overcrowding to focus on dialing back the OOB enrollment level?

This seems the logical thing to do. I worry that in the renovation, DCPS will want to expand school capacity significantly and cram even more kids into this postage stamp-sized school site because it's good politics for the mayor to keep WOTP school slots available. Other NW elementaries either flipped completely to IB a while ago and/or were recently renovated and can't be expanded further again. Maybe DCPS can add a few stories onto Eaton with a rooftop playground.

What schools are completely IB? I know Janney is 93% but that was the only one I knew in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great families. Too crowded, too regimented about both behavior and curriculum, inconsistent teacher quality.

What is hard to understand is if Eaton is overcrowded, why does it offer so many spots to OOB students? Isn't the logical response to overcrowding to focus on dialing back the OOB enrollment level?

This seems the logical thing to do. I worry that in the renovation, DCPS will want to expand school capacity significantly and cram even more kids into this postage stamp-sized school site because it's good politics for the mayor to keep WOTP school slots available. Other NW elementaries either flipped completely to IB a while ago and/or were recently renovated and can't be expanded further again. Maybe DCPS can add a few stories onto Eaton with a rooftop playground.

What schools are completely IB? I know Janney is 93% but that was the only one I knew in the 90s.

Brent is basically completely IB at this point, or will be in the next few years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great families. Too crowded, too regimented about both behavior and curriculum, inconsistent teacher quality.

What is hard to understand is if Eaton is overcrowded, why does it offer so many spots to OOB students? Isn't the logical response to overcrowding to focus on dialing back the OOB enrollment level?

This seems the logical thing to do. I worry that in the renovation, DCPS will want to expand school capacity significantly and cram even more kids into this postage stamp-sized school site because it's good politics for the mayor to keep WOTP school slots available. Other NW elementaries either flipped completely to IB a while ago and/or were recently renovated and can't be expanded further again. Maybe DCPS can add a few stories onto Eaton with a rooftop playground.

What schools are completely IB? I know Janney is 93% but that was the only one I knew in the 90s.

Brent is basically completely IB at this point, or will be in the next few years.

Brent is at 65% http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Brent+Elementary+School

[Anonymous]

I'm sure that DCPS has everything well in hand.