MacArthur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible MacArthur had no/very free lottery seats set aside this year because they don't have a good sense of what IB enrollment will look like yet?

Looking at the historical waitlist data, there are definitely other schools that have used this strategy in previous years. For example, in SY21-22 Stuart-Hobson had zero lottery seats but by August had offered seats to 91 of the 102 students on the waitlist.

*very few

[Anonymous]

I live about half mile from MacArthur HS, in Berkley. My kids all went to/go to Hardy. Our oldest two are at Walls. Our youngest, a Hardy 8th grader, did not want to go to Walls (and may very well not have gotten in) and will go to JR. She does not want to go to MacArthur for a few reasons: 1. No upper classmen, she wants a full HS experience, 2. Athletics (sports are important to her and the JR teams are good and well supported, and part of the JR culture), 3. She doesn't know many people at MacArthur even though she's at Hardy, and none of her friends are considering MacArthur for next year, and 4. Uniforms (which seems like it shouldn't be a factor, but she very much doesn't want uniforms for HS). Most of these factors will likely change over the next 5 years, including starting next year when most of Hardy (except younger siblings of JR students) won't have a choice, but for now wanted to offer some reasons why there isn't full "buy in."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live about half mile from MacArthur HS, in Berkley. My kids all went to/go to Hardy. Our oldest two are at Walls. Our youngest, a Hardy 8th grader, did not want to go to Walls (and may very well not have gotten in) and will go to JR. She does not want to go to MacArthur for a few reasons: 1. No upper classmen, she wants a full HS experience, 2. Athletics (sports are important to her and the JR teams are good and well supported, and part of the JR culture), 3. She doesn't know many people at MacArthur even though she's at Hardy, and none of her friends are considering MacArthur for next year, and 4. Uniforms (which seems like it shouldn't be a factor, but she very much doesn't want uniforms for HS). Most of these factors will likely change over the next 5 years, including starting next year when most of Hardy (except younger siblings of JR students) won't have a choice, but for now wanted to offer some reasons why there isn't full "buy in."

Since when did they have uniforms?

[Anonymous]

My kid's lottery number was higher than for Latin (in the 160s). I guess a whole bunch of people just put it on their list?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live about half mile from MacArthur HS, in Berkley. My kids all went to/go to Hardy. Our oldest two are at Walls. Our youngest, a Hardy 8th grader, did not want to go to Walls (and may very well not have gotten in) and will go to JR. She does not want to go to MacArthur for a few reasons: 1. No upper classmen, she wants a full HS experience, 2. Athletics (sports are important to her and the JR teams are good and well supported, and part of the JR culture), 3. She doesn't know many people at MacArthur even though she's at Hardy, and none of her friends are considering MacArthur for next year, and 4. Uniforms (which seems like it shouldn't be a factor, but she very much doesn't want uniforms for HS). Most of these factors will likely change over the next 5 years, including starting next year when most of Hardy (except younger siblings of JR students) won't have a choice, but for now wanted to offer some reasons why there isn't full "buy in."

Since when did they have uniforms?

From what I can tell, they do not have uniforms ( the school profile indicates that they do not) which makes me kinda makes me doubt everything in PP’s post.

[Anonymous]

DC is at Macarthur. There are no uniforms or plans to have uniforms (unfortunately IMO).

[Anonymous]

And Macarthur does have several sports teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Macarthur does have several sports teams.

JV teams? Where do they practice?

[Anonymous]

Macarthur needs a chance to get on its feet. Come on, it's just the second year.

[Anonymous]

I have seen a few posts suggesting that Deal 8th graders got WL numbers MacArthur this year - is that true? Is 9th grade oversubsribed next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have seen a few posts suggesting that Deal 8th graders got WL numbers MacArthur this year - is that true? Is 9th grade oversubsribed next year?

I think that the demand is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have seen a few posts suggesting that Deal 8th graders got WL numbers MacArthur this year - is that true? Is 9th grade oversubsribed next year?

My kid's at Deal and was waitlisted in the low 50s.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at MacArthur. He likes it. He's challenged and loves his teachers and has extra curriculars. The doom and gloom reads like folks who have never been there and never spoken to someone who goes there. If you cite truancy as the major problem, please cite the source and know that you are looking at less than 1 year of data.

I'm getting the sense from my neighbors that the students who show up every day like it and are engaged. Unlike at the ES/MS level, those kids are ignored and not much effort is made to get them to catch up. This is a good thing in their book. Basically those students bring in resources that can be spend on the kids that show up.

…and the truant kids do what all day while the neighborhood kids learn with their resources? School of life in my neighborhood, drugs, violence? McArthur should lose the funding to the truant students’ IB HS, which should sic some truancy van onto those kids real quick.

Carjacking folks in Ward 3

If you think carjacking is limited to Ward 3 you're truly deluded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at MacArthur. He likes it. He's challenged and loves his teachers and has extra curriculars. The doom and gloom reads like folks who have never been there and never spoken to someone who goes there. If you cite truancy as the major problem, please cite the source and know that you are looking at less than 1 year of data.

I'm getting the sense from my neighbors that the students who show up every day like it and are engaged. Unlike at the ES/MS level, those kids are ignored and not much effort is made to get them to catch up. This is a good thing in their book. Basically those students bring in resources that can be spend on the kids that show up.

…and the truant kids do what all day while the neighborhood kids learn with their resources? School of life in my neighborhood, drugs, violence? McArthur should lose the funding to the truant students’ IB HS, which should sic some truancy van onto those kids real quick.

Carjacking folks in Ward 3

If you think carjacking is limited to Ward 3 you're truly deluded.

Yeah. Ward 3 has the lowest incidence.

But mainly, if a kid is not going to go to school that day, why would they bother to travel to Macarthur? Surely there are a lot more fertile areas to waste time.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, not uniforms, but a much more strict dress code than other schools. And of course they have sports teams but not in many sports and not at all competitive. You can doubt the validity of my post all you want, I wasn't actually trying to criticize macarthur but instead to give an example of the actual decision making that is happening amongst Hardy students. Cheers!