Overcrowding at Wilson

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

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[Anonymous]

The rise of the Ward 4 secondary schools is coming, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rise of the Ward 4 secondary schools is coming, people.

Wells?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am skeptical of those numbers. There are at least 50 SWW 9th graders that went to Deal last year. There were not 600 kids in 8th grade at Deal last year.

I am not saying it is not overcrowded and this is not an issue, just be careful with asserting "facts"

OP here - and I am skeptical of your numbers. The Beacon gave the current enrollment - 550 from Deal was told to me by my child. They don't have enrollment numbers from last year up - but it was 537 in 7th grade for this group. My child only knows 5 people who went to Walls and they know a lot of kids. Walls hired an inept math teacher from Deal that this grade had a chance of having twice - in 6th and 7th grade. I have heard more then a handful of kids saying they didn't want to go to Walls because they hired that teacher so how good can they be. All anecdotal but I think it was a low Walls year and I would say 20-30 went. So...why don't you be just as careful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am skeptical of those numbers. There are at least 50 SWW 9th graders that went to Deal last year. There were not 600 kids in 8th grade at Deal last year.

I am not saying it is not overcrowded and this is not an issue, just be careful with asserting "facts"

OP here - and I am skeptical of your numbers. The Beacon gave the current enrollment - 550 from Deal was told to me by my child. They don't have enrollment numbers from last year up - but it was 537 in 7th grade for this group. My child only knows 5 people who went to Walls and they know a lot of kids. Walls hired an inept math teacher from Deal that this grade had a chance of having twice - in 6th and 7th grade. I have heard more then a handful of kids saying they didn't want to go to Walls because they hired that teacher so how good can they be. All anecdotal but I think it was a low Walls year and I would say 20-30 went. So...why don't you be just as careful.

I have a 9th trader at Walls is and I stand by my assessment of numbers, I am actually guessing low given what I have heard from my child but I do acknowledge it is a guess. I am aware of that math teacher as I heard about it from the shadow day from another student I know also now at Walls and my student is not in a class with that teacher. Walls is not perfect but it has a lot of very good things about it, including a high level of independence for the students, and I am very happy my child is there and not Wilson.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a 9th grader at Wilson. He got all of the classes he needed. He even got his first choice in electives. BUT wanted to make a change. He got his changes made and didn't mention that the wait was long at all. Maybe we were just lucky.

He did say lunch is a little overwhelming - the lines are REALLY long. He didn't eat the first three days and now brings lunch from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am skeptical of those numbers. There are at least 50 SWW 9th graders that went to Deal last year. There were not 600 kids in 8th grade at Deal last year.

I am not saying it is not overcrowded and this is not an issue, just be careful with asserting "facts"

OP here - and I am skeptical of your numbers. The Beacon gave the current enrollment - 550 from Deal was told to me by my child. They don't have enrollment numbers from last year up - but it was 537 in 7th grade for this group. My child only knows 5 people who went to Walls and they know a lot of kids. Walls hired an inept math teacher from Deal that this grade had a chance of having twice - in 6th and 7th grade. I have heard more then a handful of kids saying they didn't want to go to Walls because they hired that teacher so how good can they be. All anecdotal but I think it was a low Walls year and I would say 20-30 went. So...why don't you be just as careful.

I have a 9th trader at Walls is and I stand by my assessment of numbers, I am actually guessing low given what I have heard from my child but I do acknowledge it is a guess. I am aware of that math teacher as I heard about it from the shadow day from another student I know also now at Walls and my student is not in a class with that teacher. Walls is not perfect but it has a lot of very good things about it, including a high level of independence for the students, and I am very happy my child is there and not Wilson.

I'm glad to hear that you are so self-satisfied that you are not at Wilson. We're having a good experience, so why do you not trash something that you don't have anything to do with. You sound like a private school parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am skeptical of those numbers. There are at least 50 SWW 9th graders that went to Deal last year. There were not 600 kids in 8th grade at Deal last year.

I am not saying it is not overcrowded and this is not an issue, just be careful with asserting "facts"

OP here - and I am skeptical of your numbers. The Beacon gave the current enrollment - 550 from Deal was told to me by my child. They don't have enrollment numbers from last year up - but it was 537 in 7th grade for this group. My child only knows 5 people who went to Walls and they know a lot of kids. Walls hired an inept math teacher from Deal that this grade had a chance of having twice - in 6th and 7th grade. I have heard more then a handful of kids saying they didn't want to go to Walls because they hired that teacher so how good can they be. All anecdotal but I think it was a low Walls year and I would say 20-30 went. So...why don't you be just as careful.

I don't know many kids from this cohort of 537 from Deal but I personally know 6 who went to schools other than Wilson (moved out of area due to family jobs, went to Walls, moved to Mont Co) And if "I" know 6 then there are more because I don't know many kids at all from this class (my kids are younger so the ones I know are neighbors or older siblings of my kids). I do know another 4 kids from Deal who went to Wilson and was just talking to one on Saturday. The parents are really involved and discriminating parents and so far they (and more importantly their kid) are VERY happy at Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

It truly worries me if the Wilson Principal is the best in the system. DCPS is really going downhill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

It truly worries me if the Wilson Principal is the best in the system. DCPS is really going downhill.

Going downhill???
When was DCPS ever uphill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

It truly worries me if the Wilson Principal is the best in the system. DCPS is really going downhill.

Going downhill???
When was DCPS ever uphill?

With Rhee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

It truly worries me if the Wilson Principal is the best in the system. DCPS is really going downhill.

Going downhill???
When was DCPS ever uphill?

Please stop clogging Wilson threads with this useless bashing. Some of us would like to productively discuss what to do about these issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am skeptical of those numbers. There are at least 50 SWW 9th graders that went to Deal last year. There were not 600 kids in 8th grade at Deal last year.

I am not saying it is not overcrowded and this is not an issue, just be careful with asserting "facts"

OP here - and I am skeptical of your numbers. The Beacon gave the current enrollment - 550 from Deal was told to me by my child. They don't have enrollment numbers from last year up - but it was 537 in 7th grade for this group. My child only knows 5 people who went to Walls and they know a lot of kids. Walls hired an inept math teacher from Deal that this grade had a chance of having twice - in 6th and 7th grade. I have heard more then a handful of kids saying they didn't want to go to Walls because they hired that teacher so how good can they be. All anecdotal but I think it was a low Walls year and I would say 20-30 went. So...why don't you be just as careful.

I have a 9th trader at Walls is and I stand by my assessment of numbers, I am actually guessing low given what I have heard from my child but I do acknowledge it is a guess. I am aware of that math teacher as I heard about it from the shadow day from another student I know also now at Walls and my student is not in a class with that teacher. Walls is not perfect but it has a lot of very good things about it, including a high level of independence for the students, and I am very happy my child is there and not Wilson.

I'm glad to hear that you are so self-satisfied that you are not at Wilson. We're having a good experience, so why do you not trash something that you don't have anything to do with. You sound like a private school parent.

I apologize, I really should not have gotten so defensive to the OP whi was insulting Walls for it’s teachers that are so terrible that no more than 30 Deal kids could possibly have elected to attend.

I too have spoke with families whose students are thriving there, both before and this year. I was saying that for my child, there are a lot of good things about Walls and I also acknowledged it is not perfect. For my child, a little smaller is better.

[Anonymous]

Thriving at Wilson that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son was randomly placed in the public speaking elective. He tried it but said it was terrible and even the teacher said he was randomly assigned to teach it and is not interested in the topic. He had to wait in line for 3h to see a counselor and most anything he wanted was already maxed out. I hope the Wilson principal is advocating for more resources for Wilson because the school is clearly overstretched.

The Wilson principal is useless. That's why she was hired.

She was just named Principal of the Year.

In DCPS, those two facts are consistent, not contradictory.

It truly worries me if the Wilson Principal is the best in the system. DCPS is really going downhill.

Going downhill???
When was DCPS ever uphill?

Please stop clogging Wilson threads with this useless bashing. Some of us would like to productively discuss what to do about these issues.

NP here. Not really sure what you are upset about. Isn’t this whole thread DCPS bashing? Folks need to vent since DCPS is not about to change trajectory.