Bancroft-Specific Boundary Study Thread

[Anonymous]

Boundary and Student Assignment Study - Bancroft School Community - November meeting poll

We want to hear from you! Visit https://dme.dc.gov/node/1690376/for more information on the challenges and possible solutions that were shared at the Boundary Study Bancroft ES meetings on November 7 and 8.

Use this online form to share your opinion on the benefits and trade-offs of potential solutions to resolve the identified challenges of overutilization and programmatic multiple feeders.

Your feedback will be shared with the Advisory Committee in charge of developing recommendations. This form will be open until December 1. Please respond one time only.

[Anonymous]

On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boundary and Student Assignment Study - Bancroft School Community - November meeting poll

We want to hear from you! Visit https://dme.dc.gov/node/1690376/for more information on the challenges and possible solutions that were shared at the Boundary Study Bancroft ES meetings on November 7 and 8.

Use this online form to share your opinion on the benefits and trade-offs of potential solutions to resolve the identified challenges of overutilization and programmatic multiple feeders.

Your feedback will be shared with the Advisory Committee in charge of developing recommendations. This form will be open until December 1. Please respond one time only.

Where is the poll? All I see is the 11/8 slide deck.

[Anonymous]

How is Adams an “option” for Bancroft and not Marie Reed? Or is DCPS/DME just throwing Bancroft a bone?

[Anonymous]

Because they are trying to alleviate overcrowding at Deal. What does any of that have to do with Marie Reed?

[Anonymous]

Interesting that some people are saying Bancroft should feed to McFarland but that has been an option for Bancroft students for a while and the linked deck shows that not a single family chose that option last year. They are voting already with their feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they are trying to alleviate overcrowding at Deal. What does any of that have to do with Marie Reed?

Marie Reed is closer to Adams than Bancroft and is a “better” middle school option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boundary and Student Assignment Study - Bancroft School Community - November meeting poll

We want to hear from you! Visit https://dme.dc.gov/node/1690376/for more information on the challenges and possible solutions that were shared at the Boundary Study Bancroft ES meetings on November 7 and 8.

Use this online form to share your opinion on the benefits and trade-offs of potential solutions to resolve the identified challenges of overutilization and programmatic multiple feeders.

Your feedback will be shared with the Advisory Committee in charge of developing recommendations. This form will be open until December 1. Please respond one time only.

Where is the poll? All I see is the 11/8 slide deck.

Poll: https://forms.office.com/g/d2Stmwn3PG

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that some people are saying Bancroft should feed to McFarland but that has been an option for Bancroft students for a while and the linked deck shows that not a single family chose that option last year. They are voting already with their feet.

They voted with their feet for CHEC across the street instead.

[Anonymous]

chec for immersion and Deal for traditional middle school seems to be working fairly well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

Bancroft’s former principal is now Cardozo’s principal. It’s unfortunate Cardozo hasn’t enjoyed the same “glow up” under his leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:chec for immersion and Deal for traditional middle school seems to be working fairly well.

Why not just CHEC? Clear feeder pattern and very close. It isn’t a full immersion school. It is Tubman’s only feed, so it works for non-immersion kids.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there’s interest in a radical change.

Bancroft families are flipping out over the possibility of losing their long-standing right to Deal. When they rezone, there is usually an effort make it more of a like-for-like change.

Adams seems more viable for that reason. It takes pressure off of Deal and keeps J-R somewhat diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s interest in a radical change.

Bancroft families are flipping out over the possibility of losing their long-standing right to Deal. When they rezone, there is usually an effort make it more of a like-for-like change.

Adams seems more viable for that reason. It takes pressure off of Deal and keeps J-R somewhat diverse.

Did they do like-for-like for Crestwood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Bancroft parent. There are many underlying issues at play that aren’t PC to discuss.

Bancroft’s principal and another senior Bancroft admin voiced concerns about parents wanting to have it both ways in last week’s townhall. Some of the loudest voices advocating for retaining rights to Deal/JR are also the ones who have the most to lose to their livelihood. e.g. It’s not a good look when neighborhood realtor residents/parents are arguing for “diversity” when clearly a shift would impact their bottom line.

Diversity? They should be looking how to make the demographics of Bancroft much closer to that of Ward 1. How can a Ward 1 school only be 4% Black?

I think the gist here is that non-POC UMC Mount Pleasant parents are arguing that Bancroft adds Latino diversity to Deal/JR (a central argument the last time boundaries were studied). This is the demographic opposed to removing the lower boundary streets as proposed (expensive, mostly SFH properties on Hobart/Irving/Kenyon) to help bring in kids at the upper boundary (more Latino families and students from lower cost housing, like the Woodner).

Some of the more vocal advocates for maintaining the current geographical feeder pattern (Deal/JR) are non-POC Bancroft parents who are also dominant Mt. P real estate sellers/buyers agents. I think the PP was pointing this out, and they're not wrong. The existing pattern is a reason people pay a premium to live in Mount Pleasant vs. neighboring communities.

But a significant portion of the Latino kids actually opt to go to CHEC and Bancroft primarily sends white kids to Deal.