MacArthur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

I live next to Macarthur and a bunch of kids go to that school in PJs.

[Anonymous]

Quick question: If you don't live within walking distance of Macarthur, or the D6 - how in the heck does your kid get to this school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

I'm still pondering that your DS does not want to attend a school that only has 9, 10, and 11th graders.

She has some big expectations about the "full high school experience" if that requires seniors and loose dress codes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Well surprise surprise, the decision making skills of tweens and teens are way off. Macarthur absolutely does NOT have a strict dress code—quite unfortunately IMO. They go to school looking unkempt in sweats just like teens at other area schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

I live next to Macarthur and a bunch of kids go to that school in PJs.

Kids everywhere in DC go to school in pajamas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

I live next to Macarthur and a bunch of kids go to that school in PJs.

Kids everywhere in DC go to school in pajamas.

Lots of schools in DC have dress codes and uniforms so this is only at certain DC high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quick question: If you don't live within walking distance of Macarthur, or the D6 - how in the heck does your kid get to this school?

they take a bus/metro and transfer to the D6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Well surprise surprise, the decision making skills of tweens and teens are way off. Macarthur absolutely does NOT have a strict dress code—quite unfortunately IMO. They go to school looking unkempt in sweats just like teens at other area schools.

Not unkempt in sweats! I bet they didn't even comb their hair. The horror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: What is actually wrong with MacArthur, other than the expected start-up issues that would affect any new school (not many ECs, etc)?

My son met the principal at an open house event and thought he was really engaging. He likes that the school is on the small side, so he figured teachers and administrators would look out for him. We put it first in the lottery.

He's at a decent charter and also zoned for J-R, so he's lucky to have good options regardless

Short term: most local students are going to different schools with proven track records. So the school is the only ward 3 school that is dominant out of boundary. Half the students who aren't from the neighborhood never show up at school.

Long run: DCPS is incompetent at renovations or commitment. The school should become more in-neighborhood as time goes on.

I'm confused. Am I reading the lottery stats correctly that MacArthur didn't offer seats in the lottery? Do in-bounds students still have a choice between J-R and MacArthur for this year? How are the out of bounds students getting there? Is it just the ones who feed from Hardy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: What is actually wrong with MacArthur, other than the expected start-up issues that would affect any new school (not many ECs, etc)?

My son met the principal at an open house event and thought he was really engaging. He likes that the school is on the small side, so he figured teachers and administrators would look out for him. We put it first in the lottery.

He's at a decent charter and also zoned for J-R, so he's lucky to have good options regardless

Short term: most local students are going to different schools with proven track records. So the school is the only ward 3 school that is dominant out of boundary. Half the students who aren't from the neighborhood never show up at school.

Long run: DCPS is incompetent at renovations or commitment. The school should become more in-neighborhood as time goes on.

I'm confused. Am I reading the lottery stats correctly that MacArthur didn't offer seats in the lottery? Do in-bounds students still have a choice between J-R and MacArthur for this year? How are the out of bounds students getting there? Is it just the ones who feed from Hardy?

This year's Hardy 8th graders have the choice to attend J-R or MacArthur.

MacArthur presumably does not know how many lottery seats to offer until the Hardy 8th graders begin re-enrolling and they learn how many students are choosing which school.

No one, whether in-bounds or out-of-bounds, can easily reach Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: What is actually wrong with MacArthur, other than the expected start-up issues that would affect any new school (not many ECs, etc)?

My son met the principal at an open house event and thought he was really engaging. He likes that the school is on the small side, so he figured teachers and administrators would look out for him. We put it first in the lottery.

He's at a decent charter and also zoned for J-R, so he's lucky to have good options regardless

Short term: most local students are going to different schools with proven track records. So the school is the only ward 3 school that is dominant out of boundary. Half the students who aren't from the neighborhood never show up at school.

Long run: DCPS is incompetent at renovations or commitment. The school should become more in-neighborhood as time goes on.

I'm confused. Am I reading the lottery stats correctly that MacArthur didn't offer seats in the lottery? Do in-bounds students still have a choice between J-R and MacArthur for this year? How are the out of bounds students getting there? Is it just the ones who feed from Hardy?

This year's Hardy 8th graders have the choice to attend J-R or MacArthur.

MacArthur presumably does not know how many lottery seats to offer until the Hardy 8th graders begin re-enrolling and they learn how many students are choosing which school.

No one, whether in-bounds or out-of-bounds, can easily reach Hardy.

* no one can easily reach *MacArthur*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: What is actually wrong with MacArthur, other than the expected start-up issues that would affect any new school (not many ECs, etc)?

My son met the principal at an open house event and thought he was really engaging. He likes that the school is on the small side, so he figured teachers and administrators would look out for him. We put it first in the lottery.

He's at a decent charter and also zoned for J-R, so he's lucky to have good options regardless

Short term: most local students are going to different schools with proven track records. So the school is the only ward 3 school that is dominant out of boundary. Half the students who aren't from the neighborhood never show up at school.

Long run: DCPS is incompetent at renovations or commitment. The school should become more in-neighborhood as time goes on.

I'm confused. Am I reading the lottery stats correctly that MacArthur didn't offer seats in the lottery? Do in-bounds students still have a choice between J-R and MacArthur for this year? How are the out of bounds students getting there? Is it just the ones who feed from Hardy?

This year's Hardy 8th graders have the choice to attend J-R or MacArthur.

MacArthur presumably does not know how many lottery seats to offer until the Hardy 8th graders begin re-enrolling and they learn how many students are choosing which school.

No one, whether in-bounds or out-of-bounds, can easily reach Hardy.

Thanks. That's fits with what I was drawing from the posts. So if this years rising 9th grade class still has the J-R choice, the main difference from last year is that the school is already up and running with the current 9th and part of 10th? And to get that 9th grade last year they accepted 63 in the initial lottery and offered 142 more by Oct. Does a kid with choice lose their MacArthur rights if enrolled at J-R? If not, them it seems like that kid can enroll at J-R and delay the decision until the first day of school with MacArthur feeder rights. Just saying it seems like MacArthur is really going to be churning the waitlist. Apparently they're waiting until the enrollment deadline to do that, but that deadline may not tell them a lot if inbounds kids can wait until school starts to decide.

[Anonymous]

We have a waitlist number in the 90s so I’ve mentally moved on, but now I’m wondering if my kid could get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a waitlist number in the 90s so I’ve mentally moved on, but now I’m wondering if my kid could get in?

I mean, it's hard to say, right? It has long been the case that many, many students move off of waitlists over the summer. It seems a certainty that some will be admitted to MacArthur over the summer. Given how far it is for most people in the city, I would not be surprised if it got to the 90s. People move on mentally from a school, often and adjust to a different option: plan on private, make peace with another choice. But who knows?

[Anonymous]

Do we know how big a freshman class they're planning this fall at MacArthur? Last year it was 200.