Bowser’s first community outreach mtg since re-election: education focused

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school.

[Anonymous]

ALL DCPS has to do is copy successful suburban school districts is true. Unfortunately, DCPS's poor population is about 80% or more impoverished. One cannot have a successful school in areas outside of NW when the students are not at benchmark. Wilson, Banneker, Walls are just about the only schools doing well and even then those schools do not provide a well rounded high school experience. DCPS will never have a public school that offers the private prep school experience. Many of our areas best suburban public schools are run like private prep schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

Bannecker is a joke compared to Wilson and SWW.

Just look at the crazy number of dropouts, especially boys.

[Anonymous]

Bowser's idea to create a new "Western" high school isn't a bad one. It would relieve the existing pressure on Wilson immediately (with room to grow), and maybe send the Hardy and SWW-FS kids to the new Western. Don't know of an existing building big enough to house it, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school.

What makes you think that is a desired outcome?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school.

What makes you think that is a desired outcome?

I don't get it - is Banneker maxed out? Are people clamoring to get in who can't now get it? That was not my understanding. I also understood it to be fairly specialized, like BASIS - heavy on the academics and light on say, sports. Not all kids will want that.

[Anonymous]

Banneker is a dump. They want to pull families away from Wilson and SWW (which is full to the brim and turns away kids each year who pass the test and are on the wait list).

Banneker's current space doesn't allow for much outside of academics (fields, etc); the new Shaw space theoretically would.

[Anonymous]

Meaning - the BUILDING is a dump. Not the teachers/students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser's idea to create a new "Western" high school isn't a bad one. It would relieve the existing pressure on Wilson immediately (with room to grow), and maybe send the Hardy and SWW-FS kids to the new Western. Don't know of an existing building big enough to house it, though.

I'm the OP of this thread. The way Bowser talked about it seems like it would be more of a medium-term possibility (5-10 years from now). She seems to be driven to make Banneker @ Shaw a tangible reality that is accomplished during her 2nd term in office.

If I had to guess, a new WOTP high school would probably be something that's open to all DC residents. Therefore, that leaves us with either a charter or a magnet school. And it would probably only be in the initial planning phase by the time Bowser leaves office. Bowser seems to be very focused on expanding/building schools that are open to all DC residents. She also seemed to hint that the "population pattern" wasn't quite there yet for a new WOTP high school. I think she wants to see demand increase, for capacity WOTP to be more constrained than relative to today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school.

What makes you think that is a desired outcome?

I don't get it - is Banneker maxed out? Are people clamoring to get in who can't now get it? That was not my understanding. I also understood it to be fairly specialized, like BASIS - heavy on the academics and light on say, sports. Not all kids will want that.

Banneker is test-in, and yes, many people want in that can't get in. With Title 1 accreditation it has 100% graduation rate and among the best outcomes in the District (compare to SWW, which is 15% disadvantaged). White parents on this thread acting like they'll deign to consider it (and implying their kids' presence will improve it) by allowing their kids to "mingle" with the high achieving "brown" cohort at Banneker is racist and foolish. The idea that Banneker needs to, or should seek to draw white students is based on a false premise -- that white students will improve a school that is already the best in the District. Keep that attitude and your kids at Wilson or SWW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser's idea to create a new "Western" high school isn't a bad one. It would relieve the existing pressure on Wilson immediately (with room to grow), and maybe send the Hardy and SWW-FS kids to the new Western. Don't know of an existing building big enough to house it, though.

I'm the OP of this thread. The way Bowser talked about it seems like it would be more of a medium-term possibility (5-10 years from now). She seems to be driven to make Banneker @ Shaw a tangible reality that is accomplished during her 2nd term in office.

If I had to guess, a new WOTP high school would probably be something that's open to all DC residents. Therefore, that leaves us with either a charter or a magnet school. And it would probably only be in the initial planning phase by the time Bowser leaves office. Bowser seems to be very focused on expanding/building schools that are open to all DC residents. She also seemed to hint that the "population pattern" wasn't quite there yet for a new WOTP high school. I think she wants to see demand increase, for capacity WOTP to be more constrained than relative to today.

How silly. Kids would still have to trek across town to go to a decent school. For what a new school would cost, DCPS could afford to invest massively in one feeder group (Coolidge or Eastern?), actually fix some problems and remediate academically from Kindergarten on, and then there would be an adequate high school EOTP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser's idea to create a new "Western" high school isn't a bad one. It would relieve the existing pressure on Wilson immediately (with room to grow), and maybe send the Hardy and SWW-FS kids to the new Western. Don't know of an existing building big enough to house it, though.

A new high school west of the park has been floated for years but is not on the table, even though Jack Evan is still barking up the tree. He thinks that he can colonize some of Duke Ellington for a non arts focused high school students. It is a hard case to make when ward 2 has the lowest kids in high school of all the wards in the city.

The easiest thing and quickest thing to do is delete a middle school from the Wilson feed, the most likely candidate is Oyster Adams, which is in the southern part of Kalorama. They can go to Mcfarlan, or Cardozo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is a dump. They want to pull families away from Wilson and SWW (which is full to the brim and turns away kids each year who pass the test and are on the wait list).

Banneker's current space doesn't allow for much outside of academics (fields, etc); the new Shaw space theoretically would.

The new location with better facilities could help drive demand, but I noticed that that there was a short waitlist for Banneker and the school is not at capacity. So what is the urgency? Is there some cohort of high performing kids that are about to erupt out of DCPS middle schools?

[Anonymous]

I'm all for forcing feeders eastward and not playing with this silly idea that Ward 3 needs more high school seats for Ward 3 students, but remember that when people tried to push Bancroft east, the neighborhood overcame opposition, largely because they had a lot of high-class folks pushing. In DC, I see a lot of class-based success in politics, which is why you don't have Bancroft or Oyster in the Roosevelt feeder system for language programming and as-of-right. If you think you can overcome that - I'd like to know how. Maybe convincing the mayor, who is kind of dictatorial in education policy? It could be enough, but she doesn't tend to make those kind of choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.

+1. Just build it.

Mingling, seriously?

75.9% Black, non-Hispanic
2.7% Asian
18.0% Hispanic / Latino
0.2% Native American / Alaska Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0% White non-Hispanic
1.9% Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession. What a joke.

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school.

What makes you think that is a desired outcome?

I don't get it - is Banneker maxed out? Are people clamoring to get in who can't now get it? That was not my understanding. I also understood it to be fairly specialized, like BASIS - heavy on the academics and light on say, sports. Not all kids will want that.

Banneker is test-in, and yes, many people want in that can't get in. With Title 1 accreditation it has 100% graduation rate and among the best outcomes in the District (compare to SWW, which is 15% disadvantaged). White parents on this thread acting like they'll deign to consider it (and implying their kids' presence will improve it) by allowing their kids to "mingle" with the high achieving "brown" cohort at Banneker is racist and foolish. The idea that Banneker needs to, or should seek to draw white students is based on a false premise -- that white students will improve a school that is already the best in the District. Keep that attitude and your kids at Wilson or SWW.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Banneker has nothing close to 100% graduation rate -- they get those fake results by kicking out something like 30-40% of the student body before they finish HS.

Track students from 9th to 12th grade and see what you find.