Good schools EoTP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in CH for 12 years. Now have my third kid in Tubman. It’s been really good to all of them and the school did a great job staying open all last year. We love that it’s a 5 minute walk there and back each day rather than a long commute (no au pair or nanny to help with that). But sure, if you can afford to move to Mount Pleasant why not 🤷‍♂️. Schooling is such a personal decision as to what’s right for your family and kids and there’s a lot of choice out there..

OP: glad to hear you’ve had a good experience with Tubman. We’re not entirely opposed, I’ve just generally heard not great things. What do you think you’ll do for middle and high school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in CH for 12 years. Now have my third kid in Tubman. It’s been really good to all of them and the school did a great job staying open all last year. We love that it’s a 5 minute walk there and back each day rather than a long commute (no au pair or nanny to help with that). But sure, if you can afford to move to Mount Pleasant why not 🤷‍♂️. Schooling is such a personal decision as to what’s right for your family and kids and there’s a lot of choice out there..

OP: glad to hear you’ve had a good experience with Tubman. We’re not entirely opposed, I’ve just generally heard not great things. What do you think you’ll do for middle and high school?

Columbia Heights and Cardozo.

[Anonymous]

Get real. I seriously doubt the above.

[Anonymous]

The Capitol Hill school situation is so insane. You look at the boundary map and none of the MS or Eastern High draw from Anacostia or east of the river. They all draw from what are now incredibly gentrified neighborhoods where it’s hard to get a family sized house under say $750-800k anywhere, and many are $1 million plus. But the higher level schools are all disaster zones supposedly. I guess DCPS just can’t conceptualize that half or more of this city is made up of some of the most highly educated highest wealth people of anywhere in the US and accept that part of its mission should be providing that population with good public schools

[Anonymous]

So on this post we just shout out names of schools we think are good and others comment “no” and say the Hill has
Some kind of insanity going on?

[Anonymous]

Here's the problem with "I’ve just generally heard not great things." Confirmation bias is real/natural. You hear a lot of not great things from people who day 1 choose not to go there. You hear a lot of not great things from people who left in a relatively early grade for a combination of reasons and likely have some valid experiences/complainants but also want to justify that decision. There will be a year (or two) where your child has a less than all-around fabulous teacher at just about any school public or private. In many circles, who you know can maybe almost be more harmful than helpful when it comes to school choice.

[Anonymous]

My family has experienced 4 DCPS schools first-hand. All are considered “highly regarded” here. Only one has been uniformly very good to excellent in every respect, in my opinion. One thing they all have in common is a parent community that props it up and is hesitant to admit the school is less than perfect. So actually, my experience is the opposite. If parents are warning you against a school, it is probably for a good reason. Most parents are hesitant to admit their school choices were not good ones.

[Anonymous]

It all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. There are some warning signs to posts that should make you completely discount them. Anyone who leans into "the Cluster" when those schools long ago were broken into ES and MS. You wouldn't listen to people tell you about "up and coming" neighborhoods based on what they knew in 2008.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My family has experienced 4 DCPS schools first-hand. All are considered “highly regarded” here. Only one has been uniformly very good to excellent in every respect, in my opinion. One thing they all have in common is a parent community that props it up and is hesitant to admit the school is less than perfect. So actually, my experience is the opposite. If parents are warning you against a school, it is probably for a good reason. Most parents are hesitant to admit their school choices were not good ones.

What school was that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the problem with "I’ve just generally heard not great things." Confirmation bias is real/natural. You hear a lot of not great things from people who day 1 choose not to go there. You hear a lot of not great things from people who left in a relatively early grade for a combination of reasons and likely have some valid experiences/complainants but also want to justify that decision. There will be a year (or two) where your child has a less than all-around fabulous teacher at just about any school public or private. In many circles, who you know can maybe almost be more harmful than helpful when it comes to school choice.

Thank you. Especially when you consider the demo of this forum, people are basically just self - fulfilling prophecies. I personally think it’s to help them justify their own reasons for not continuing with their DCPS feeders. They then tell others no to. You could argue that this site has been incredibly harmful for DCPS schools and keeping them segregated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the problem with "I’ve just generally heard not great things." Confirmation bias is real/natural. You hear a lot of not great things from people who day 1 choose not to go there. You hear a lot of not great things from people who left in a relatively early grade for a combination of reasons and likely have some valid experiences/complainants but also want to justify that decision. There will be a year (or two) where your child has a less than all-around fabulous teacher at just about any school public or private. In many circles, who you know can maybe almost be more harmful than helpful when it comes to school choice.

Thank you. Especially when you consider the demo of this forum, people are basically just self - fulfilling prophecies. I personally think it’s to help them justify their own reasons for not continuing with their DCPS feeders. They then tell others no to. You could argue that this site has been incredibly harmful for DCPS schools and keeping them segregated.

Great point! Have to investigate yourself and go from there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the problem with "I’ve just generally heard not great things." Confirmation bias is real/natural. You hear a lot of not great things from people who day 1 choose not to go there. You hear a lot of not great things from people who left in a relatively early grade for a combination of reasons and likely have some valid experiences/complainants but also want to justify that decision. There will be a year (or two) where your child has a less than all-around fabulous teacher at just about any school public or private. In many circles, who you know can maybe almost be more harmful than helpful when it comes to school choice.

Thank you. Especially when you consider the demo of this forum, people are basically just self - fulfilling prophecies. I personally think it’s to help them justify their own reasons for not continuing with their DCPS feeders. They then tell others no to. You could argue that this site has been incredibly harmful for DCPS schools and keeping them segregated.

+1

[Anonymous]

Agree. There’s a f-Ing guess ton of “I didn’t send my kid there and I want to continue to justify that choice 10 years later.”

I suspect - have fun with this one ladies - 1/3 of users of this site are parents who live WOTP “for the schools,” 1/3 who send their kids WOTP “for the schools” but live EOTP, and 1/4 charter parents who chose “based on their child’s need to be with an academically-minded cohort.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree. There’s a f-Ing guess ton of “I didn’t send my kid there and I want to continue to justify that choice 10 years later.”

I suspect - have fun with this one ladies - 1/3 of users of this site are parents who live WOTP “for the schools,” 1/3 who send their kids WOTP “for the schools” but live EOTP, and 1/4 charter parents who chose “based on their child’s need to be with an academically-minded cohort.”

You are not good at math, right?

[Anonymous]

Not PP, but there’s nothing wrong with PP’s math. The number of users PP is guessing about does not have to add up to 100% of all users.