Wilson is 50% over enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC should allow tracking at the high school level. That is the only way they will convince families to try their neighborhood high school. It would ultimately benefit all the students at the school as more students would mean more dollars for the school and would allow the school to offer a greater variety of electives and AP classes and additional extracurricular activities. AP courses should be open to all students. There are many kids of color who would benefit from the higher level classes as well. DCPS also needs to do a better job with Career and Tech education which is very weak at the moment. They should have a CTE school like Montgomery County and Arlington. No matter where you go to HS, you should be able to do a half day of automotive repair or HVAC classes if that is your interest. DCPS is woefully behind the times unfortunately. Every high school should offer a couple of CS classes

After the courts struck down racially-constructed boundaries, white Washington though it would get clever by creating a tracking system where all the white kids were put in the college-bound track and all the Black kids were put in the vocational track. A few more years of litigation ensued, and DCPS is now also under a court decree saying it can't do tracking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in California schools that were always over capacity. It didn’t affect my education to have classes that met in a trailer.

It isn't the trailers to which they object. It is that there are blacks and poors in the main building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crap, I replied to the wrong post. 17:03 was in response to 13:40.

DCPS can’t require parents to send their kids to their IB school because there are alternatives like charters and privates and homeschool and moving elsewhere. But if parents choose to send their kids to a traditional DCPS neighborhood school, DCPS can require them to enroll at their IB. If there are no available seats at an over-enrolled school, then OOB students cannot enroll just because they want to.

I agree with you that DCPS hasn’t got the balls to enforce this or re-draw and enforce boundaries because of politics. So some schools are overcrowded and some are underfunded and under-enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crap, I replied to the wrong post. 17:03 was in response to 13:40.

DCPS can’t require parents to send their kids to their IB school because there are alternatives like charters and privates and homeschool and moving elsewhere. But if parents choose to send their kids to a traditional DCPS neighborhood school, DCPS can require them to enroll at their IB. If there are no available seats at an over-enrolled school, then OOB students cannot enroll just because they want to.

I agree with you that DCPS hasn’t got the balls to enforce this or re-draw and enforce boundaries because of politics. So some schools are overcrowded and some are underfunded and under-enrolled.

Agree with the second part, disagree with the first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in California schools that were always over capacity. It didn’t affect my education to have classes that met in a trailer.

It isn't the trailers to which they object. It is that there are blacks and poors in the main building.

No. It’s because a HS of 2200+ is too large. It’s too many kids to feel a strong sense of belonging and community, too few kids get to play on sports teams, etc etc.

[Anonymous]

I’m baffled by the seemingly pro-segregation posters who keep complaining that DCPS “lacks the political will” to implement various steps they favor that would limit Wilson enrollment to upper NW.

DCPS is implementing policies that ultimately come from the mayor and council. Those elected officials are carrying out the will of their constituencies. Just because you don’t like a policy doesn’t make it somehow illegitimate, particularly given that, in this case, those policies provide a more academic opportunity to a broader range of students. This is what a majority of DC voters want. That’s how democracy works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m baffled by the seemingly pro-segregation posters who keep complaining that DCPS “lacks the political will” to implement various steps they favor that would limit Wilson enrollment to upper NW.

DCPS is implementing policies that ultimately come from the mayor and council. Those elected officials are carrying out the will of their constituencies. Just because you don’t like a policy doesn’t make it somehow illegitimate, particularly given that, in this case, those policies provide a more academic opportunity to a broader range of students. This is what a majority of DC voters want. That’s how democracy works.

Except that ending feeder rights would help the whole city. It would reduce overcrowding at Deal and Wilson and it would give Hill neighborhood middle schools a fighting chance to attract IB students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m baffled by the seemingly pro-segregation posters who keep complaining that DCPS “lacks the political will” to implement various steps they favor that would limit Wilson enrollment to upper NW.

DCPS is implementing policies that ultimately come from the mayor and council. Those elected officials are carrying out the will of their constituencies. Just because you don’t like a policy doesn’t make it somehow illegitimate, particularly given that, in this case, those policies provide a more academic opportunity to a broader range of students. This is what a majority of DC voters want. That’s how democracy works.

Except that ending feeder rights would help the whole city. It would reduce overcrowding at Deal and Wilson and it would give Hill neighborhood middle schools a fighting chance to attract IB students.

Yep. It’s benefitting a small group of students at the expense of the wider community.

Which is why it’s political in the negative sense. It serves a special interest group, not the majority.

[Anonymous]

Rezoning of Eaton to Hardy is one reason Hardy got more popular with its IB students, and change reduced pressure on Deal.

Rezoning can help the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crap, I replied to the wrong post. 17:03 was in response to 13:40.

DCPS can’t require parents to send their kids to their IB school because there are alternatives like charters and privates and homeschool and moving elsewhere. But if parents choose to send their kids to a traditional DCPS neighborhood school, DCPS can require them to enroll at their IB. If there are no available seats at an over-enrolled school, then OOB students cannot enroll just because they want to.

I agree with you that DCPS hasn’t got the balls to enforce this or re-draw and enforce boundaries because of politics. So some schools are overcrowded and some are underfunded and under-enrolled.

Agree with the second part, disagree with the first.

Do you disagree with the policy or do you disagree that this is the policy. Because that is the policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in California schools that were always over capacity. It didn’t affect my education to have classes that met in a trailer.

It isn't the trailers to which they object. It is that there are blacks and poors in the main building.

No. It’s because a HS of 2200+ is too large. It’s too many kids to feel a strong sense of belonging and community, too few kids get to play on sports teams, etc etc.

Oh brother, my high school had 4,000 students and I loved the variety of activities, classes and clubs we could belong to. When we moved to a school of 2600 I hated it. Considering so many state colleges where 20-30k students is the norm it might be a good idea to get your student used to a bigger pond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m baffled by the seemingly pro-segregation posters who keep complaining that DCPS “lacks the political will” to implement various steps they favor that would limit Wilson enrollment to upper NW.

DCPS is implementing policies that ultimately come from the mayor and council. Those elected officials are carrying out the will of their constituencies. Just because you don’t like a policy doesn’t make it somehow illegitimate, particularly given that, in this case, those policies provide a more academic opportunity to a broader range of students. This is what a majority of DC voters want. That’s how democracy works.

But they don’t provide more opportunity to a broader range of students. They limit opportunity to a few schools and the relatively few students who crowd into them. Better to spread opportunity to more schools in more neighborhoods where more students can access advanced classes, APs, electives like CS plus extra curriculars, sports teams, debate clubs. That’s what voters want. But Bowser can’t figure out how to get that done.

[Anonymous]

So here’s how democracy works. The primary is the whole race here. The corporate Democrat gets the votes of the Ward 3 “Democrats” and the rest of DC doesn’t turn out. The corporate Democrat gets to run the system without any accountability because nobody wants to contradict Ward 3. Mayoral control. So if you think there’s a Democrat that’ll win coming at Bowser from the left, put her up to the job. If not we’re going to get more of the same.

Now there’s the Council, but this mayoral control thing has gone to their heads. They don’t seem interested in fixing anything that involves moving Ward 3 cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in California schools that were always over capacity. It didn’t affect my education to have classes that met in a trailer.

It isn't the trailers to which they object. It is that there are blacks and poors in the main building.

No. It’s because a HS of 2200+ is too large. It’s too many kids to feel a strong sense of belonging and community, too few kids get to play on sports teams, etc etc.

Oh brother, my high school had 4,000 students and I loved the variety of activities, classes and clubs we could belong to. When we moved to a school of 2600 I hated it. Considering so many state colleges where 20-30k students is the norm it might be a good idea to get your student used to a bigger pond.

My HS graduating class had over 500 in the 80s so total student enrollment must have been around 2000. Big high schools have been around forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in California schools that were always over capacity. It didn’t affect my education to have classes that met in a trailer.

It isn't the trailers to which they object. It is that there are blacks and poors in the main building.

No. It’s because a HS of 2200+ is too large. It’s too many kids to feel a strong sense of belonging and community, too few kids get to play on sports teams, etc etc.

The best public high schools in the DC area all have 2000+. You have no earthly idea what you are talking about.