Me too. Especially if it's a combined middle/upper school, so once my kid is in, I don't have to worry about highschool. |
We were (are?) definitely looking at houses closer to the forthcoming Latin Cooper location if DD had gotten in. IB for Dunbar! |
So BASIS pulls from all these areas and STILL has only 7% overall "at risk" for their total population. Why is that? This just proves the self-selection point. |
Right. So you have no idea what you are talking about. Do you even have kids in DC? You sound like a single millennial Brookings intern. |
DP, I agree totally. I think parents of younger kids do not comprehend this. They think rich kids do not have problems. They, in fact, have different problems. |
8%. Janney has less than 1% at risk. Why don’t you go picket them? |
Why don't you just contact BASIS and find out for yourself? This really isn't hard to find out. |
Why are you stooping to insulting people? They posted a valid point and I say this as a parent of a kid at another city wide school. |
This is how charter schools can drive gentrification. Latin should have opened up EOTR as they promised. Now they'll just drive up prices in Ward 5! Pp since you didn't get in what is your plan? |
It's probably because sibling preference means their entering 5th grade class is already disproportionatly low at-risk, and then their high attrition rate among at-risk kids further pushes down the percentage. |
Because they aren't claiming that it's the result of "100% pure lottery!!!!!". Nor do they refuse to backfill. |
Same plan as everyone-- stay at our current totally adequate middle school, keep on applying to Latin, maybe apply to DCI, apply to Walls and Banneker and if worst comes to worst, move. |
They won’t let in out of bounds!!!! Bus the kids in now!!!! |
I guess it's because I feel like Janney is what it is, it's not trying to convince people it's anything other than a vast-majority-high-income school that performs as expected for its demographics. Unlike BASIS which wants to claim "100% pure lottery" (which is itself disingenuous when sibling preference and the Equitable Action preference at other schools skews things), and then pretend that their policies and poor retention don't have any impact on their demographics. And then likes to compare to schools with different policies and different demographics and claim victory without acknowledging those differences. Rigor! |
NP. There was no valid point. PP #1 admitted that she had insufficient data to make conclusions, even though she had earlier made conclusions. PP #2 called that out. |