Wilson honors for all - how has it worked?
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Anonymous
That's a good specific question for the principal. It would depend on the student but Wilson has special educators who work with those with IEPs in or outside of the regular classroom and the same with students learning English. But without knowing how many of these students would qualify for or need these supports, how many are capable but decided not to answer or try on the PARCC for whatever reasons, and how many are just not capable of performing the work. |
Anonymous
How great was that pyramid with the huge carb section down the bottom? Make sure to eat all that yummy bread and pasta every day! Sigh... |
Anonymous
For the most recent PARCC (2017-2018), 18% of Wilson High School students scored a 1 on the ELA portion. In a school with 1,829 students that translates to 329 students. Data: http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/scorecard/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/scorecard/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School |
Anonymous
Do HFA isn’t magically bringing everyone up to grade level? What’s more, there is a meaningful difference between a 2 (below grade level) and a 4 (at grade level), even aside from the blatant gap between 1s and 5s. |
Anonymous
yes well all know this. Again, the purpose of this is purely political/optics to try and give traditionally URM and poorer folks a shot at being ready for AP type work. Because as everyone know the people in the advanced classes are overwhelmingly higher SES levels and since this DC and Ward 3 they also tend to be whiter as a result |
Anonymous
Those were 10th graders (not 9th) who did not have HFA when they were in 9th. The percentage of students with 1s in the 2019 PARCC will be more telling as they were the first class to experience this in 9th grade. There is a big caveat, however. The number of at-risk students at Wilson is rapidly declining. That alone will reduce the number of students scoring 1s on PARCC. |
Anonymous
You did not answer my question. In fact, you seem to have gone way out your way not to answer it. And your emotional need to attach an inflammatory name ("white fragility") to the banal notion that people get defensive does not speak well of you. I asked you before to "please be more careful with your accusations". You clearly ignored that reasonable request. First, I did not "to try to explain away experiences like the Uber experience" which I specifically described as a "shitty" thing to happen to a kid. I simply tried to dig deeper into the issue using a "thought experiment" so that we could properly characterize it. Somehow this went over your head. Second, you accused me of "denying that life is easier for white people" which I never did. In fact, I explicitly stated that "I don't deny racism or its history." Of course life is easier when, for example, you are discriminated against less often as in the case with white people. Duh! And finally, the principal of Wilson HS herself used the term "white fragility" as part of her discussion of implementing HFA. She used and embraced the term, not me. |
Anonymous
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first it was racism/that's racist now it's white fragility
terms used by people who can't win arguments and use made up words to shut down debate |
Anonymous
Calm down --- no one is accusing you of anything. If you take a breath an re-read my post, you will see that I was talking about MY experience and saying that I can't look into your heart. You may want to take a second to figure out why this topic is so upsetting to you and why me talking about my feelings sounds like I am accusing you of something. Sorry if I missed a question in your post. Was it the question about white privilege? That's kinda what the first paragraph of my post was about. You realize that it's easier to be white in our culture and, to a lesser extent Asian, and to a much lesser extent Latino. You object to calling that white privilege for some reason, but you don't deny the reality. That's fine, but I wonder why you are so sensitive about the semantics? |
Anonymous
So you believe that racism is just a made up word made up to shut down debate? How breathtakingly ignorant of you. Apparently you have never heard of slavery, 10,000 people killed by lynching, sundown towns, the dozens of massacres of blacks during reconstruction, redlining, housing discrimination, employment discrimination, Jim Crow, poll tests, grandfather clauses, ongoing wage, school discipline, policing and employment discrimination as well as all of the other facets of institutionalized racism I linked to above. Congrats. You win the prize for stupidest post ever on DCUM. |
Anonymous
DP: PP made a perfectly reasonable reply. Your telling her to “calm down” and “take a breath” — appropriately enough — is another rude approach to trying to diminish someone you are debating rather than responding to the substance that of what she said. And what foes this have to do with HFA anyway? |
Anonymous
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One other note about "white privilege" for the poster above. PP proposed a "thought experiment" about Latinx and Asian folks, which is fine but kinda misses the point. There lots of experiences that Latinx people have that white Anglos don't (e.g. I've heard nasty comments when speaking Spanish with friends in "worldly" NW DC, but never when speaking German). In other parts of the country, Latinx parents live in fear of their US citizen kids being picked up by police and detained. What do these things have in common? They are problems that white people don't have. You can argue that blacks don't worry about deportation or that Latinos will be picked up by Uber, but the bottom line is the commonality of all of these problems is that they are not white people's problems. This is white privilege.
Interestingly, in my experience, if black people mention an actual incidence of racism that happened to them to a group of white people, in my experience, there are ALWAYS people who have to say "yes, that's a shitty experience you had, but..." "But it was an isolated incident" (despite mountains of evidence that it's an utterly commonplace incident). "But one bad apple cop doesn't represent all white people" (despite the horrible statistics about disparate rates of arrests, convictions and sentencing for whites and blacks for the same crimes). "But Latinos experience prejudice too" (as if that was somehow better?). But, but, but. That need to argue against, deny (or create "thought experiments" about) the complete ubiquity of unfortunate experiences that non whites have regularly that we don't --- that's white fragility. |
Anonymous
The bolded above strikes you as perfectly reasonable? Really? It seems out of control rude and aggressive to me. Hence my sincere suggestion to calm down. Guess we're going to have to agree to disagree. |
Anonymous
congrats you play the victim card extremely well. Here's a tip instead of waiting for your reparations check try and make something of your life. It's 2019 my original point if someone uses racisim white privilege white fragility it is just a tactic to shut down debate and avoid having an actual logical conversation |
Anonymous
You twice falsely accused me, and yeah I am a bit pissed about it. Let's recap: In your original post you said: The fact that you deny it exists suggests to me that you haven't engaged in many honest conversations about race... How is that not an accusation? I responded by carefully refuting it and asking you to "please be more careful with your accusations." In your next post, you stated: Denying that life is easier for white people (and to a lesser extent for Asians and Latinos) is unhelpful, inaccurate, and alienates people of goodwill. You copied the bolded text verbatim from my earlier post in some lame attempt at a gotcha. And what, now you are saying that denial accusation was not aimed at me? Yeah right. I will not respond to any more of your posts. |