Jefferson Academy Kool-Aid

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Anonymous wrote:Latin doesn't want to expand partly because they had a hell of a time getting a permanent facility, after years of hassling with the city over the issue. If DCPS were freeing more up mostly empty schools in decent condition to the high-performing charters, I picture Latin's good liberal board singing a different tune. And if Latin elected not to grab a cheap or free Metro accessible building outside Wards 7 and 8, BASIS would.

I really don't think Latin is a very good school. Sure, in DC, where most middle schools are total garbage it seems ok enough. But it is no Boston Latin. I'd prefer a test in school that's real IB for ward 6.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don't bother Councilman Allen this week about middle school issues. He's busy working on critical issues such as changing the DC license plate to read "End Taxation Without Representation." That's right up there with ironic beards, single speed bikes, hot yoga and acrobatics classes.

He's such a useless coward. I wish we had Mary Cheh advocating for us.

Not according to the Murch parents

Good point. I still think Charles Allen is worse. He abandoned Miner for JO Wilson too.

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Anonymous wrote:Latin doesn't want to expand partly because they had a hell of a time getting a permanent facility, after years of hassling with the city over the issue. If DCPS were freeing more up mostly empty schools in decent condition to the high-performing charters, I picture Latin's good liberal board singing a different tune. And if Latin elected not to grab a cheap or free Metro accessible building outside Wards 7 and 8, BASIS would.

I really don't think Latin is a very good school. Sure, in DC, where most middle schools are total garbage it seems ok enough. But it is no Boston Latin. I'd prefer a test in school that's real IB for ward 6.

Thanks for sharing?

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Anonymous wrote:Right, boatloads of happy middle-class Cap Hill families at Hobson, the neighborhood middle school that's 40% FARMs, 80% OOB, 15% white, and 0% Asian (just like the Hill, right?).

It's just like the middle-SES Hill.

The Hill, regardless of SES, is nowhere near 85% non-white in 2016.

20003 alone is about 27K people and < %10 are school aged children. There are more seniors than school aged children. While Hill East is fast gentrifying it's not as whited out as you may think with 3:2 white to black ratio. You still have multi-generational households, plus neighboring boundaries for Payne, Miner and Tyler. It's not all dog parks, yoga and bike lanes (thank god!). Some of us do lament the loss of diversity underway

We need to act now to preserve the open air drug markets and corner stores selling blunts and singles! Life in the Hill isn't the same without the crunch of crack vials under your shoes and junkies defecating in your alley.

none of those things makes me cringe as much as seeing sheeple lined up for the latest [insert choice of cronut, barre, studio, crossfit, doggie daycare]

I can laugh at the man-bun-wearers as much as anyone, but anything is better than crack vials and defecating junkies.

Ugh. Comments like this make me not want to talk to my Hill neighbors. I can't believe that people who are this clueless choose to live in DC and on the Hill in particular. But anyway, just for fun, I'll say: there's more to DC black culture than "crack vials and defecating junkies" and you are a clueless gentrifier.

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Anonymous wrote:Right, boatloads of happy middle-class Cap Hill families at Hobson, the neighborhood middle school that's 40% FARMs, 80% OOB, 15% white, and 0% Asian (just like the Hill, right?).

It's just like the middle-SES Hill.

The Hill, regardless of SES, is nowhere near 85% non-white in 2016.

20003 alone is about 27K people and < %10 are school aged children. There are more seniors than school aged children. While Hill East is fast gentrifying it's not as whited out as you may think with 3:2 white to black ratio. You still have multi-generational households, plus neighboring boundaries for Payne, Miner and Tyler. It's not all dog parks, yoga and bike lanes (thank god!). Some of us do lament the loss of diversity underway

We need to act now to preserve the open air drug markets and corner stores selling blunts and singles! Life in the Hill isn't the same without the crunch of crack vials under your shoes and junkies defecating in your alley.

none of those things makes me cringe as much as seeing sheeple lined up for the latest [insert choice of cronut, barre, studio, crossfit, doggie daycare]

I can laugh at the man-bun-wearers as much as anyone, but anything is better than crack vials and defecating junkies.

Ugh. Comments like this make me not want to talk to my Hill neighbors. I can't believe that people who are this clueless choose to live in DC and on the Hill in particular. But anyway, just for fun, I'll say: there's more to DC black culture than "crack vials and defecating junkies" and you are a clueless gentrifier.

Gotta give the methadone clinic hos their due.

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Anonymous wrote:Right, boatloads of happy middle-class Cap Hill families at Hobson, the neighborhood middle school that's 40% FARMs, 80% OOB, 15% white, and 0% Asian (just like the Hill, right?).

It's just like the middle-SES Hill.

The Hill, regardless of SES, is nowhere near 85% non-white in 2016.

20003 alone is about 27K people and < %10 are school aged children. There are more seniors than school aged children. While Hill East is fast gentrifying it's not as whited out as you may think with 3:2 white to black ratio. You still have multi-generational households, plus neighboring boundaries for Payne, Miner and Tyler. It's not all dog parks, yoga and bike lanes (thank god!). Some of us do lament the loss of diversity underway

Are you one of the folks who think that black people never ride bicycles?

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Obnoxious question on an increasingly stupid and pointless thread. The outreach efforts by the Brent optimists may be laudable, but they're peddling Band-Aid treatment, no different than the way DCPS rebooted Eastern. Arghhhhhhhhhhh

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Here's a story about Jefferson: http://wamu.org/news/16/04/20/another_parcc_season_has_dc_maryland_schools_thinking_about_numbers

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This article is very thought-provoking. Mostly sad. Instead of being able to provide a well-rounded education for the whole school that results in proficiency, these educators must resort to triage about getting individual kids over an arbitrary bar so scores look beTer. That child now thinks her value is wrapped up in a few points on a test. That's a ton of pressure, and what if she doesn't make it? She has "let down" her teacher, her school, her principal and everyone reading this article. When in truth, she's the one who has been let down by an unequal, damaged education system.

These are desperate moves by desperate educators. They need more/better everything....not band-AIDS and Pep rallies

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a story about Jefferson: http://wamu.org/news/16/04/20/another_parcc_season_has_dc_maryland_schools_thinking_about_numbers

How discouraging. This is what's wrong with DCPS and our education system as a whole. PARCC results are about more the grading the teacher and school. One-on-one conferences with the principal to talk about test taking skills in 7th Grade? Kids who aren't familiar with computers by middle school? And, this is the road that Jefferson is going down, why is the school just now focusing on Neaveah's scores from last Spring? Do the proficient kids get the same attention? As far as the crap falling out of the Chancellor's mouth, perhaps she should be explaining why DC stuck with PARCC. Perhaps Pearson is committed to big dollar donations?

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Sobering indeed.

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Decision to stick with PARCC vs Smarter Balance or something else isn't the Chancellors to make. That rests with OSSE

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Three percent of 8th Graders proficient in math.

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Anonymous wrote:Decision to stick with PARCC vs Smarter Balance or something else isn't the Chancellors to make. That rests with OSSE

OK, let's pretend the Mayor and Chancellor have no say in this.

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/21870/theres-a-test-that-may-give-us-a-clearer-picture-of-student-growth-but-dcps-is-reluctant-to-consider/

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Anonymous wrote:Decision to stick with PARCC vs Smarter Balance or something else isn't the Chancellors to make. That rests with OSSE

OK, let's pretend the Mayor and Chancellor have no say in this.

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/21870/theres-a-test-that-may-give-us-a-clearer-picture-of-student-growth-but-dcps-is-reluctant-to-consider/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-mulling-over-common-core-test-switch/2014/03/02/29478710-a0b3-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html