Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Eastern’s IB results look like? Is it a strong program?

No way. Eastern's average IB Diploma pass points totals are the IB equivalent of a D. Most of their "full" IB Diploma candidates fail even to pass with the lowest acceptable points total (24 points on a scale of 24-45 points). IB subject exams are graded in Geneva, so no fudging results.

This is depressing. Why even offer IB then? Stick to AP classes. DCPS tries to offer too many options and then cannot manage them well.
I still don’t understand why Deal is IB and I have multiple kids there

I don't get it either. Why bother with IB in a situation where only one or two dozen students can handle the curriculum minimally? IB obviously only works well as a GT test-in program, or in a private school setting.

I am all for keeping IB at Eastern and providing that challenge and thorough education for those who want it.

But remember that DCPS brought IB to Easter in response to in-bound families’ request for a rigorous option. The high SES neighborhood didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. They should have been more honest: we will enroll if you allow our children to be walked off from the rest of the school and be given a special curriculum and classes.

it's chicken and egg, but I don't know anyone who is comfortable being such a minority basically an only in an entire school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Eastern’s IB results look like? Is it a strong program?

No way. Eastern's average IB Diploma pass points totals are the IB equivalent of a D. Most of their "full" IB Diploma candidates fail even to pass with the lowest acceptable points total (24 points on a scale of 24-45 points). IB subject exams are graded in Geneva, so no fudging results.

This is depressing. Why even offer IB then? Stick to AP classes. DCPS tries to offer too many options and then cannot manage them well.
I still don’t understand why Deal is IB and I have multiple kids there

I don't get it either. Why bother with IB in a situation where only one or two dozen students can handle the curriculum minimally? IB obviously only works well as a GT test-in program, or in a private school setting.

I am all for keeping IB at Eastern and providing that challenge and thorough education for those who want it.

But remember that DCPS brought IB to Easter in response to in-bound families’ request for a rigorous option. The high SES neighborhood didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. They should have been more honest: we will enroll if you allow our children to be walked off from the rest of the school and be given a special curriculum and classes.

it's chicken and egg, but I don't know anyone who is comfortable being such a minority basically an only in an entire school

DCPS can only offer the egg. The chickens have to enroll, as they said they would. Someone has to be first. But if you choose not to, I think you lose the right to complain about the lack of diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Eastern’s IB results look like? Is it a strong program?

No way. Eastern's average IB Diploma pass points totals are the IB equivalent of a D. Most of their "full" IB Diploma candidates fail even to pass with the lowest acceptable points total (24 points on a scale of 24-45 points). IB subject exams are graded in Geneva, so no fudging results.

This is depressing. Why even offer IB then? Stick to AP classes. DCPS tries to offer too many options and then cannot manage them well.
I still don’t understand why Deal is IB and I have multiple kids there

I don't get it either. Why bother with IB in a situation where only one or two dozen students can handle the curriculum minimally? IB obviously only works well as a GT test-in program, or in a private school setting.

I am all for keeping IB at Eastern and providing that challenge and thorough education for those who want it.

But remember that DCPS brought IB to Easter in response to in-bound families’ request for a rigorous option. The high SES neighborhood didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. They should have been more honest: we will enroll if you allow our children to be walked off from the rest of the school and be given a special curriculum and classes.

it's chicken and egg, but I don't know anyone who is comfortable being such a minority basically an only in an entire school

DCPS can only offer the egg. The chickens have to enroll, as they said they would. Someone has to be first. But if you choose not to, I think you lose the right to complain about the lack of diversity.

I don’t think it is quite so simple. Doesn’t IB start in junior year or at least that is when the majority of your classes are IB? What happens in 9th and 10th grade? Kids are just taking regular classes which are at a pretty low level. Also, are the IB teachers good? The results are obviously terrible. Dunbar, Coolidge, etc claim to offer AP classes but often the teachers only end up covering one-third of the AP curriculum. You can maybe call them AP-lite classes. I don’t know enough about the exact situation at Eastern but knowing how DCPS operates, I definitely worry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

Lol! You’re really funny! Charters are using money and resources towards ad campaigns to oppose FOIA. And you still can’t tell me how much on average it would cost in terms of time, money and resources to respond to FOIA. Studies of other jurisdictions shows that’s its minimal. But Ok!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

Lol! You’re really funny! Charters are using money and resources towards ad campaigns to oppose FOIA. And you still can’t tell me how much on average it would cost in terms of time, money and resources to respond to FOIA. Studies of other jurisdictions shows that’s its minimal. But Ok!

Make Education Great Again, new campaign slogan by Jessica Sutter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

Your ignorance is showing.

I work in FOIA. It’s a huge amount of time and resources spent on fulfilling foia requests. I am not having my children’s education compromised so people can submit FOIA requests- that’s not the job of a school.

Give charters a dedicated FOIA staff and I’d be super happy to make charters subject to FOIA.

You can name call and spout off foolish nonsense, but the law was poorly written.

Also shouting and name calling and not understanding the law is exactly something trump would do. Idiot.


Lol! You’re really funny! Charters are using money and resources towards ad campaigns to oppose FOIA. And you still can’t tell me how much on average it would cost in terms of time, money and resources to respond to FOIA. Studies of other jurisdictions shows that’s its minimal. But Ok!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

Lol! You’re really funny! Charters are using money and resources towards ad campaigns to oppose FOIA. And you still can’t tell me how much on average it would cost in terms of time, money and resources to respond to FOIA. Studies of other jurisdictions shows that’s its minimal. But Ok!

Your ignorance is showing.

I work in FOIA. It’s a huge amount of time and resources spent on fulfilling foia requests. I am not having my children’s education compromised so people can submit FOIA requests- that’s not the job of a school.

Give charters a dedicated FOIA staff and I’d be super happy to make charters subject to FOIA.

You can name call and spout off foolish nonsense, but the law was poorly written.

Also shouting and name calling and not understanding the law is exactly something trump would do. Idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Ward 6's SBOE who replaced Joe is against School Transparency and will not support FOIA requirements for charters. Thanks Joe-haters who got this lady elected to the Board.

That FOIA law is poorly written. I’m so glad I voted for her. Frankly I don’t want my school spending their resources responding to FOIA requests.

That’s great that you’re ok with DCPCS withholding information from parents and the public. But how many resources and how much time will be spent responding to FOIA? Charter advocates keep harping on this but no one has produced an ounce of evidence that responding to FOIA will be resource draining. If DCPS can do it, so can charters.

Have you tried reading the last?

Responding to foia requests would come out of charter school budgets. Dcps has a dedicated central office who responds to foia requests. If the law was written allowing charter schools to have a dedicated central office who can respond to foia requests, I’d be very happy with the law.

No need to waste resources responding to foia.

Lol! You’re really funny! Charters are using money and resources towards ad campaigns to oppose FOIA. And you still can’t tell me how much on average it would cost in terms of time, money and resources to respond to FOIA. Studies of other jurisdictions shows that’s its minimal. But Ok!

Your ignorance is showing.

I work in FOIA. It’s a huge amount of time and resources spent on fulfilling foia requests. I am not having my children’s education compromised so people can submit FOIA requests- that’s not the job of a school.

Give charters a dedicated FOIA staff and I’d be super happy to make charters subject to FOIA.

You can name call and spout off foolish nonsense, but the law was poorly written.

Also shouting and name calling and not understanding the law is exactly something trump would do. Idiots.

You sound like Hillary this past week. Maybe take a break from politics.

[Anonymous]

If they rewrote the FOIA law, providing funding to respond to FOIA, I’d be thrilled. Charters should be subject to FOIA but not at the expense of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Eastern’s IB results look like? Is it a strong program?

No way. Eastern's average IB Diploma pass points totals are the IB equivalent of a D. Most of their "full" IB Diploma candidates fail even to pass with the lowest acceptable points total (24 points on a scale of 24-45 points). IB subject exams are graded in Geneva, so no fudging results.

This is depressing. Why even offer IB then? Stick to AP classes. DCPS tries to offer too many options and then cannot manage them well.
I still don’t understand why Deal is IB and I have multiple kids there

I don't get it either. Why bother with IB in a situation where only one or two dozen students can handle the curriculum minimally? IB obviously only works well as a GT test-in program, or in a private school setting.

I am all for keeping IB at Eastern and providing that challenge and thorough education for those who want it.

But remember that DCPS brought IB to Easter in response to in-bound families’ request for a rigorous option. The high SES neighborhood didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. They should have been more honest: we will enroll if you allow our children to be walked off from the rest of the school and be given a special curriculum and classes.

This post is bleeding heart, PC lunacy. A special curriculum and classes? How about appropriate academic rigor, period. Eastern doesn't offer anything like that to the UMC neighborhood families, whose children often can and will work several grade levels ahead of your average Eastern student. Where DCPS won't incentivize neighborhood parents to enroll, and PPs blame parents, who wins? Poor kids? How? This sort of name calling may make you feel good, PP, but it's thoroughly useless.

[Anonymous]

Why should we believe that the requisite rigor will magically appear if we send our children to Eastern?

Hint: It won't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Eastern’s IB results look like? Is it a strong program?

No way. Eastern's average IB Diploma pass points totals are the IB equivalent of a D. Most of their "full" IB Diploma candidates fail even to pass with the lowest acceptable points total (24 points on a scale of 24-45 points). IB subject exams are graded in Geneva, so no fudging results.

This is depressing. Why even offer IB then? Stick to AP classes. DCPS tries to offer too many options and then cannot manage them well.
I still don’t understand why Deal is IB and I have multiple kids there

I don't get it either. Why bother with IB in a situation where only one or two dozen students can handle the curriculum minimally? IB obviously only works well as a GT test-in program, or in a private school setting.

I am all for keeping IB at Eastern and providing that challenge and thorough education for those who want it.

But remember that DCPS brought IB to Easter in response to in-bound families’ request for a rigorous option. The high SES neighborhood didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. They should have been more honest: we will enroll if you allow our children to be walked off from the rest of the school and be given a special curriculum and classes.

I was involved in the discussions with DCPS to add IB to Eastern 15 years ago. However, I didn't agree to send my children there if the Baccalaureate program was added.

I agreed to send my children there if the IB Diploma program that was created was test-in and high-performing. It certainly hasn't been.