Anybody UNhappy with Janney?

[Anonymous]

It is an investment. It is an investment in my community. Thus I deserve to get a piece of it. Or should I pay my taxes and not see a dime? If all the people in the JKLM districts left the tax base would dry up and ALL schools would be in even worse shape.

You're obviously not looking up at the next rung of the socio-economic ladder. Why don't you ask all the foks who send their kids to private in your presumably "higher taxed" neighborhood how they feel about their taxes going towards your kid(s) school? It cuts both ways, baby. Our taxes go towards improving both neighborhood and the greater citywide communities. It's for the collective good of all of us.

As it stands, your upper NW (am I wrong?) neighborhood taxes probably provide you with better city services. They are also hopefully (if g-d-willing Fenty stays in office) going to create better educated kids all over this city which means there's less of a chance they'll sell drugs to your daugher or break into your upper middle class house because they are illiterate and can't get a job. But I guess you'd rather your kids have an extra field trip every semseter with that cash....

It astounds and angers me that in a city that is presumably so well educated there is so much ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It astounds and angers me that in a city that is presumably so well educated there is so much ignorance.

Said the poster who thinks Fenty is improving DCPS...

[Anonymous]

my point exactly.

[Anonymous]

I realize it was a mistake to mention Fenty. It was an open invitation for a response like this. Would you have had a problem with my post if I didn't mention him? Probably not. You're entitled to your political opinions but please don't make a personal judgement about me or my intelligence based on mine.

[Anonymous]

I agree with parts of your post (each of us benefits from seeing that everybody's kids get a decent education)
and not others (e.g. because we must keep the underclass from turning our own kids into drug users and burglarizing our homes).

And it was specifically "ignorance" (rather than intelligence) that you referenced and that I applied to your own statement about Fenty's impact on DCPS.

On some level, it's hard to say one makes personal judgments on an anonymous website, but, yeah, of course I judge whether someone knows what they're talking about from what they say.

[Anonymous]

I impression is a greater percentage of parents whose kids go to non JKLM DCPS schools have good impression of Rhee and Fenty than parents whose kids go to privates, charters, and JKLM schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I impression is a greater percentage of parents whose kids go to non JKLM DCPS schools have good impression of Rhee and Fenty than parents whose kids go to privates, charters, and JKLM schools.

Parents of charter school students have every reason to DISlike Fenty. Why? Because he continually breaks the law giving the first rights of closed DCPS facilities to charter schools. He has a history of preferring to bypass the Council altogether and giving public property to his fraternity brother developers.

[Anonymous]

Ummm, can we get back to Janney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I impression is a greater percentage of parents whose kids go to non JKLM DCPS schools have good impression of Rhee and Fenty than parents whose kids go to privates, charters, and JKLM schools.

I don't think so--unless they're on Cap Hill. Where else in the city has Rhee improved things? Nowhere that I can see.

PP - is there anything else to say about Janney? I think it is ok when threads wander off to related topics. It happens on every message board I'm aware of.

[Anonymous]

Murch actually has a fair amount of diversity

http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/dc/other/1#students

[Anonymous]

We are black, we are not granola, we are not well off. Our kids are happy at Janney. We do not care what politics the parents of our kids' friends have. We feel welcome there.

We like that it is a neighborhood school, the kids have great teachers and made good friends.

From our point of view, there is diversity at Janney : lots of international kids, many non whites, many Spanish speaking kids, many kids with parents of different nationalities,...

We supplement the lack of PE, arts, music etc... by enrolling the kids to music school, dance school, there's a lot of extracurricular activities one can go to in the neighborhood. We go to museums and do extra reading.

We do not know yet if the kids will attend Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are black, we are not granola, we are not well off. Our kids are happy at Janney. We do not care what politics the parents of our kids' friends have. We feel welcome there.

We like that it is a neighborhood school, the kids have great teachers and made good friends.

From our point of view, there is diversity at Janney : lots of international kids, many non whites, many Spanish speaking kids, many kids with parents of different nationalities,...

We supplement the lack of PE, arts, music etc... by enrolling the kids to music school, dance school, there's a lot of extracurricular activities one can go to in the neighborhood. We go to museums and do extra reading.

We do not know yet if the kids will attend Deal.

Another black family at Janney and we well the same way (except our current expectation is that we will not choose Deal), in fact sometimes I find the other families a little bit too friendy. Do I secretly wish that there were more (in-bounds) black kids at Janney?, yes, but not enough that I would choose to opt for private at this stage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are black, we are not granola, we are not well off. Our kids are happy at Janney. We do not care what politics the parents of our kids' friends have. We feel welcome there.

We like that it is a neighborhood school, the kids have great teachers and made good friends.

From our point of view, there is diversity at Janney : lots of international kids, many non whites, many Spanish speaking kids, many kids with parents of different nationalities,...

We supplement the lack of PE, arts, music etc... by enrolling the kids to music school, dance school, there's a lot of extracurricular activities one can go to in the neighborhood. We go to museums and do extra reading.

We do not know yet if the kids will attend Deal.

Another black family at Janney and we well the same way (except our current expectation is that we will not choose Deal), in fact sometimes I find the other families a little bit too friendy. Do I secretly wish that there were more (in-bounds) black kids at Janney?, yes, but not enough that I would choose to opt for private at this stage.

Ack!, replace "well" with "feel"

[Anonymous]

Many thanks to the two black PPs for their helpful posts.

Can they or anyone else speak to how much differentiated instruction (at the high end) happens at Janney (especially in math)? How is it down, how often, etc.? TIA!

[Anonymous]

Curious: to recent AA posters, you are not alone in deciding that no matter what Deal will not be seriously considered for your child. Why is that? I'm sending my child to WIS rather than Deal but because the fan club for deal is so universally strong I wonder if my gut matches your gut toward how well Deal "deals" with diversity....