Wilson Overenrolled.

[Anonymous]

Those OOB kids have just as much a right to be at Wilson as your IB kids do because those are the rules. They couldn't afford to buy a house in the Wilson cachment and so had to lottery in just like you can't afford to buy a house in a cachement of a non-crowded school.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.

[Anonymous]

There won’t be any in person HS this year (Partially due to reliance on metro) so it won’t be an issue.

[Anonymous]

Why not have live instruction for the kids who can walk or drive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People complaining might consider moving to their one of the under enrolled high schools. Maybe people can use their stimulus checks to move near Wilson? Would the complainers be happy if the in-boundary students moved to the area? Would the situation be resolved? Kids that are out of boundary have gone to Wilson forever and now some want to toss them out.

No one wants students already enrolled at Wilson to be tossed out. We are talking about stemming the flow of future OOB kids into Wilson.

OP was: “...yet Principal Martin is encouraging this and has no plans
to send OOB students back to their neighborhood schools.”

[Anonymous]

So, DCPS moves kids from underenrolled, brand new school buildings to an overcrowded school across the city? And the school is overcrowded by more kids than are in several other schools combined? That seems like gross mismanagement. In a normal business someone would be losing a job over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.

I'm an OB Wilson parent. No, my IB school is not more attractive. I work near Wilson and am willing to drive my kid if need be.

[Anonymous]

^^ OOB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those OOB kids have just as much a right to be at Wilson as your IB kids do because those are the rules. They couldn't afford to buy a house in the Wilson cachment and so had to lottery in just like you can't afford to buy a house in a cachement of a non-crowded school.

Haha yes Wilson families can afford a house in the undercrowded schools. The “Taj mahals” as another thread called them

[Anonymous]

It's so embarrassing for DC to make such a blatant concession to racism. Putting aside SWW, Wilson is the only high school considered good enough for some people so DCPS just rolls over and lets them go to Wilson while doing nothing about the high schools with no white kids, not that many other kids, and terrible test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.

I'm ok with it, can drop my kid off - it's no problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those OOB kids have just as much a right to be at Wilson as your IB kids do because those are the rules. They couldn't afford to buy a house in the Wilson cachment and so had to lottery in just like you can't afford to buy a house in a cachement of a non-crowded school.

Haha yes Wilson families can afford a house in the undercrowded schools. The “Taj mahals” as another thread called them

I meant an non-overcrowded GOOD school. They clearly can't afford that or they wouldn't be complaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those OOB kids have just as much a right to be at Wilson as your IB kids do because those are the rules. They couldn't afford to buy a house in the Wilson cachment and so had to lottery in just like you can't afford to buy a house in a cachement of a non-crowded school.

Haha yes Wilson families can afford a house in the undercrowded schools. The “Taj mahals” as another thread called them

I meant an non-overcrowded GOOD school. They clearly can't afford that or they wouldn't be complaining.

PP was referring to Great Falls, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.

They’ll be distance learning anyway.

And no, Dunbar and Ballou etc are not suddenly going to seem like awesome options because their kids don’t have to ride the metro to get there. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Really wondering why they don’t build a high school or middle school at Hardy?