Short Waitlists is up

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Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

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Anonymous wrote:Friendship Chamberlain no waitlist for PK3-1st. Surprises me for ECE; pretty decent location for Hill/just across the the river folks commuting in.

JOW basically no WL for K-2.

Also, I am confused by why Watkins doesn't appear on the list, because they initially didn't even fill their seats. Can they pull them back if that happens with a plan to downsize?

I don't know about Watkins, could be.

JOW likely due to the renovation?

Friendship Chamberlain is a great PK option, I encourage anyone without a solid plan to check it out.

Yeah, JOW picked an unfortunate time to be just pre-construction. I think interest there is going to skyrocket post-construction, but they're really going to have to do some rebuilding first. They're going to end up with a ton of empty seats.

When would have been a good time? The point (made by others) is that families in K-2 will likely never get the benefit of the reno and will have to deal with swing space, so why go? That would have been the case regardless of when they did the reno.

I think they were otherwise well positioned to benefit in the short term from the collapse of 2R.

If you think TR's decline is a recent event you haven't been paying attention.

I am at a neighboring school and this year seems to be by the biggest effect yet.

Your impressions are not "facts". The number of kids fleeing TR schools and the falling demand is not new this year. The world was round before you noticed it, too.

Wow, your a peach. I didn’t say it was new this year. I do, however, know that for our school it has had the biggest effect yet this year. I think the effect would take a little while to trickle down to JOW, so I suspect this would have been the first year they’d really stand to benefit. Next year even more.

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Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

Teachers or students? Students: L-T has seemed to pick up quite a few this/last year, including two IB kids mid-year last year (which I’d assume is the sign of an extreme issue).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

Teachers or students? Students: L-T has seemed to pick up quite a few this/last year, including two IB kids mid-year last year (which I’d assume is the sign of an extreme issue).

ITS apparently got a number of former TR students this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

Teachers or students? Students: L-T has seemed to pick up quite a few this/last year, including two IB kids mid-year last year (which I’d assume is the sign of an extreme issue).

ITS apparently got a number of former TR students this year.

And the year before. And a principal. And at least one teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

The TR Board of Directors is an embarrassment. I hope this failure follows them throughout their professional careers. It's almost as though being a lawyer at the Kennedy Center doesn't qualify you to run school boards. Shocking...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

Teachers or students? Students: L-T has seemed to pick up quite a few this/last year, including two IB kids mid-year last year (which I’d assume is the sign of an extreme issue).

The fact that TR4 is very much a neighborhood school makes it much easier for kids to peel off for SH. The kids from the neighborhood and from W5 are a reasonable commute to the new Cooper campus. I honestly wonder whether they will cut bait and sell the 4th street properties in a few years when it becomes clear they just aren't competent to run one school, let alone 3.

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Anonymous wrote:TR 4th and young having zero kids on the 5th grade waitlist is no good.

This year's TRY 5th grade had no permanent lead teachers for more than half of the year. One of teachers left midyear without another job.

Many of us (now former) TRY parents spoke out years ago about the systemic problems at the school and with leadership; we received little support from other parents who inexplicably continued to drink the kool-aid and marketing push by the school. The collapse of the school is of little surprise.

When people leave, where do they tend to go?

Teachers or students? Students: L-T has seemed to pick up quite a few this/last year, including two IB kids mid-year last year (which I’d assume is the sign of an extreme issue).

The fact that TR4 is very much a neighborhood school makes it much easier for kids to peel off for SH. The kids from the neighborhood and from W5 are a reasonable commute to the new Cooper campus. I honestly wonder whether they will cut bait and sell the 4th street properties in a few years when it becomes clear they just aren't competent to run one school, let alone 3.

It seems like Young is in a worse way than 4 St no? I think the question is whether they will hang in to Young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would also add plenty of seats at schools below


Bunker hill
Burroughs
Cleveland
Langdon
Langley
Miner
Seaton
Tyler
Whittier

Most of the DCPS Spanish bilingual schools 2nd grade and up

Plenty of seats in the neighborhood schools above which can’t fill their classes. This confirms that many families use DCPS for ECE but then peel off and go somewhere else.