Considering pulling kid from Wilson

[Anonymous]

Trust your child, not anonymous posters on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Wilson is horribly overenrolled by about 700 students. The principal, Kimberly Martin, resigned to take a job as a curriculum specialist or something of that sort before the school year.

Yes, there is a real problem with violence and drugs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DS said the drug problem is bad, like heroin bad.

I think your son is exaggerating. If you are a teen it's exciting to think that this may be going on - like you're living in a movie! But as a parent who has two kids at Wilson, that's now how it is. It's not always great, but its not heroin bad.

Well he said it happens all the time at Ft. Reno Park. Feel free it check it out yourself. Said it’s in the tree area.

If he knows this first hand, it sounds like he might be part of the problem. If he doesn't, it sounds like he's just passing on rumors.

Classic "my kid is a saint" parent who is shocked when their own kid pulls a Brett Kavanaugh or worse later on. Kids do all kinds of crazy stuff. Especially high SES and low SES communities, and even more when they go to the same schools or live just across the tracks from each other, or in this case, allegedly, across the park. Who was buying all the powder coke and black tar heroin when we were growing up? Who was dealing and using? UMC kids bought drugs with allowances - McLean, Bethesda... A lot of us working part-time jobs during Just Say No thought we were all grown-up with our cigarettes, malt liquor, and gasp... weed!

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the student body at Wilson (esp. 9th) is rougher than normal. None of my kid's friend group of 15+ kids at Deal went on the Wilson. They're at Walls, Duke Ellington, Banneker, about 5 different privates and 4 Catholics. They were all quiet, studious kids at Deal.
Almost all had older siblings who attended Wilson. The parents got scared off by Covid and many are scraping their dimes together to afford private or Catholic tuition.

[Anonymous]

OP I hope you find a good option and answer for your child. My experience was in middle school, and the best decision we ever made to pull. The school was toxic for my child, and the change was life saving. Don't be afraid of the change in itself or anyone else telling you "it's fine". The school we pulled from was "fine" for most but not for more than a few, but it only mattered for my one at that specific time.

New school, back to public (and yes he knew where the 'weed' stairwells were), then on to a successful college time.

Do research and I hope you find alternatives if that's what you decide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS said the drug problem is bad, like heroin bad.

I think your son is exaggerating. If you are a teen it's exciting to think that this may be going on - like you're living in a movie! But as a parent who has two kids at Wilson, that's now how it is. It's not always great, but its not heroin bad.

Well he said it happens all the time at Ft. Reno Park. Feel free it check it out yourself. Said it’s in the tree area.

If he knows this first hand, it sounds like he might be part of the problem. If he doesn't, it sounds like he's just passing on rumors.

Ridiculous. Everyone in our local public knew where the weed stairwell and bathroom was. Older kids passed along the info to younger kids. And yes, some used. Most didn't but wanted to avoid it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS said the drug problem is bad, like heroin bad.

I think your son is exaggerating. If you are a teen it's exciting to think that this may be going on - like you're living in a movie! But as a parent who has two kids at Wilson, that's now how it is. It's not always great, but its not heroin bad.

Well he said it happens all the time at Ft. Reno Park. Feel free it check it out yourself. Said it’s in the tree area.

If he knows this first hand, it sounds like he might be part of the problem. If he doesn't, it sounds like he's just passing on rumors.

Ridiculous. Everyone in our local public knew where the weed stairwell and bathroom was. Older kids passed along the info to younger kids. And yes, some used. Most didn't but wanted to avoid it.

The PP said her son knows kids are using heroin at Ft Reno. That’s not smoking weed in the bathroom. He’s part of it or he’s full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the student body at Wilson (esp. 9th) is rougher than normal. None of my kid's friend group of 15+ kids at Deal went on the Wilson. They're at Walls, Duke Ellington, Banneker, about 5 different privates and 4 Catholics. They were all quiet, studious kids at Deal.
Almost all had older siblings who attended Wilson. The parents got scared off by Covid and many are scraping their dimes together to afford private or Catholic tuition.

Whew, I’m impressed that you were able to fit so many dog whistles into one post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the student body at Wilson (esp. 9th) is rougher than normal. None of my kid's friend group of 15+ kids at Deal went on the Wilson. They're at Walls, Duke Ellington, Banneker, about 5 different privates and 4 Catholics. They were all quiet, studious kids at Deal.
Almost all had older siblings who attended Wilson. The parents got scared off by Covid and many are scraping their dimes together to afford private or Catholic tuition.

Whew, I’m impressed that you were able to fit so many dog whistles into one post.

I like you, PP. 👏👏👏👏
-signed an actual Wilson parent whose sophomore is doing fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD and her friends report there are pretty bad fights at Wilson multiple times a day. Fights in hallways, in class. Boy on girl, kids getting jumped etc. I know this is “normal” high school behavior but it’s become quite disruptive for DD.

This is not normal high school behavior even if it is common in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS said the drug problem is bad, like heroin bad.

I think your son is exaggerating. If you are a teen it's exciting to think that this may be going on - like you're living in a movie! But as a parent who has two kids at Wilson, that's now how it is. It's not always great, but its not heroin bad.

Well he said it happens all the time at Ft. Reno Park. Feel free it check it out yourself. Said it’s in the tree area.

If he knows this first hand, it sounds like he might be part of the problem. If he doesn't, it sounds like he's just passing on rumors.

Ridiculous. Everyone in our local public knew where the weed stairwell and bathroom was. Older kids passed along the info to younger kids. And yes, some used. Most didn't but wanted to avoid it.

The PP said her son knows kids are using heroin at Ft Reno. That’s not smoking weed in the bathroom. He’s part of it or he’s full of it.

dp: Ridiculous x 2. If this activity is going on, a lot more kids know about it than just the users in the trees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD and her friends report there are pretty bad fights at Wilson multiple times a day. Fights in hallways, in class. Boy on girl, kids getting jumped etc. I know this is “normal” high school behavior but it’s become quite disruptive for DD.

Actually, it's not. Why do you accept this kind of environment for your kids?

Seriously. I would not send my child to a school like this. Not if I can afford a $1m+ home. You don't have to. It's a choice.

[Anonymous]

When schools aren’t allowed to suspend kids thanks to Grosso’s bill, what are they supposed to do?

[Anonymous]

I took a kid from 9th grade at Whitman (MCPS) and sent him to St Andrew's, a coed boarding high school in Delaware. Mine repeated 9th grade, but they also have admissions into the 10th grade and very good financial aid. A world of difference, in all positive ways. Do some research into what else is out there (no, I would not have home-schooled)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the student body at Wilson (esp. 9th) is rougher than normal. None of my kid's friend group of 15+ kids at Deal went on the Wilson. They're at Walls, Duke Ellington, Banneker, about 5 different privates and 4 Catholics. They were all quiet, studious kids at Deal.
Almost all had older siblings who attended Wilson. The parents got scared off by Covid and many are scraping their dimes together to afford private or Catholic tuition.

Whew, I’m impressed that you were able to fit so many dog whistles into one post.

I like you, PP. 👏👏👏👏
-signed an actual Wilson parent whose sophomore is doing fine

+1000
-signed an actual Wilson parent with two kids at the school, one of whom is a freshman and is there with many, many of her studious friends from Deal