SWW Principal Removed - Reason Unknown

[Anonymous]

If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

The reality is they don’t admit them in the first place. The ones that get thru the test mysteriously fail the interview.

More than a few families drop their students IEPs and get private supports and services so there is nothing that will get them flagged when applying (and all the students have succeeded). The kinds of services students had - that I am aware of - social supports for students with autism, depression or anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

No, I mean any kid at Walls who has an IEP - regardless of whether they can do the work - has a target on their back. If they managed to get in in the first place, that is.

Do you seriously think no kid with an IEP can meet the academic standards? Not one? Because that is exactly what the data about the student population at Walls says right out loud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

No, I mean any kid at Walls who has an IEP - regardless of whether they can do the work - has a target on their back. If they managed to get in in the first place, that is.

Do you seriously think no kid with an IEP can meet the academic standards? Not one? Because that is exactly what the data about the student population at Walls says right out loud.

+1

People talking about high standards don’t want to admit to this glaring fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

The reality is they don’t admit them in the first place. The ones that get thru the test mysteriously fail the interview.

More than a few families drop their students IEPs and get private supports and services so there is nothing that will get them flagged when applying (and all the students have succeeded). The kinds of services students had - that I am aware of - social supports for students with autism, depression or anxiety.

I totally heard the same thing from Jenna Ellis! Obviously your anecdote is based in reality.

[Anonymous]

Frankly I'd like to hear some from some non-anonymous Walls parents.

Everything I've heard from Walls parents is that it's a challenging school with a challenging admissions process and a good experience for the students. And kids from all backgrounds appear to love Trogisch.

If this is a Ferebee vs Trogisch fight, I'm on Trogisch's side.

[Anonymous]

Wait. Isn't Ferebee's kid at Walls? Is this part of the issue?

[Anonymous]

The # of students with IEPs at SWW must be close to 0.
If you look at PARCC data from 2018 -2019, you can cut it a lot of different ways including by special subgroup. If you look at the subgroup options for Walls, there is not an option of "Students with Disabilities". In contrast, this subgroup exists at Wilson and other schools. [interesting observation: Banneker does not have that sub group either]
Walls does have "At-Risk" as well as "Active or Monitored English Learner" groups called out.

In addition, on the school profiles for DCPS, they state that 0% of students have IEPs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Isn't Ferebee's kid at Walls? Is this part of the issue?

yes
remember how Rhee fired the Principal from Oyster when her daughters were there …...

[Anonymous]

I haven't been in on this thread, but I heard from a Walls grad that the principal systematically blocked kids from Wards 7 and 8 from attending so he could, in his estimation, increase the attractiveness to upper middle-class families. Not sure how true that is but there's another theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The # of students with IEPs at SWW must be close to 0.
If you look at PARCC data from 2018 -2019, you can cut it a lot of different ways including by special subgroup. If you look at the subgroup options for Walls, there is not an option of "Students with Disabilities". In contrast, this subgroup exists at Wilson and other schools. [interesting observation: Banneker does not have that sub group either]
Walls does have "At-Risk" as well as "Active or Monitored English Learner" groups called out.

In addition, on the school profiles for DCPS, they state that 0% of students have IEPs.

Someone said on a different thread that Banneker does have IEPs. But yeah, the data does not indicate that they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Johnny from upper NW has an IEP at Walls, he is in their crosshairs to be “counseled out.”

You mean that Walls has high academic standards and all kids must meet them, after they have been helped with their disability? When you say "counsel" I read "high academic standards".

High academic standards are a good thing! Top schools are a good thing.

The reality is they don’t admit them in the first place. The ones that get thru the test mysteriously fail the interview.

More than a few families drop their students IEPs and get private supports and services so there is nothing that will get them flagged when applying (and all the students have succeeded). The kinds of services students had - that I am aware of - social supports for students with autism, depression or anxiety.

We're one of those families, and that's exactly what we are doing. We get very little in services anyway anymore, so it was not worth it to have our kid labeled in the system when it comes time for HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly I'd like to hear some from some non-anonymous Walls parents.

Everything I've heard from Walls parents is that it's a challenging school with a challenging admissions process and a good experience for the students. And kids from all backgrounds appear to love Trogisch.

If this is a Ferebee vs Trogisch fight, I'm on Trogisch's side.

I think you should pay more attention to the anonymous posters. There's always a very loud, public group of parents expressing a minority viewpoint on these points of things when it comes to "support the teachers" type stuff. Parents who disagree cannot go public because that risks their kid's reputation at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Isn't Ferebee's kid at Walls? Is this part of the issue?

Of course, his kid would be at Walls. That speaks volumes. He would not risk trying another DCPS HS regardless of DCPS trying to tell us that all the highschools are terrific