Things some other person should sue DCPS for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The stunning lack of predictability in the Walls admissions system simply isn’t a good thing for DC. Why defend it then?

+1. Especially since there is no magnet high school in the city. If there were other options for kids who need it, then it could be another story.

It’s sad how DCPS clearly doesn’t care about merit and wants to focus only on certain demographics.

BTW grades are massively inflated in DCPS and I would argue not really objective data. Having a 3.9 at Dunbar where we know that teaching is not at or above grade level vs a 3.9 at Deal or Basis are 2 totally different beasts. That is why now almost 1/3rd of the freshman class at Walls is scoring below grade level in math on PARCC.

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Anonymous wrote:SWW did not eliminate “all” objective measures. GPA is still a major factor, as I understand that no kid with a GPA below 3.7 even got an interview.

The process SWW is using isn’t all that different from how many employers hire for jobs, basing the decision on a combination of prior performance, interviews, references and writing samples.

Yeah … GPA isn’t really objective in a system like DCPS/DCPCS where you have extremely rigorous schools and total trash schools with a side of grade inflation. This is why they should have more than one objective measure (e.g. a test).

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Anonymous wrote:The stunning lack of predictability in the Walls admissions system simply isn’t a good thing for DC. Why defend it then?

+1. Especially since there is no magnet high school in the city. If there were other options for kids who need it, then it could be another story.

It’s sad how DCPS clearly doesn’t care about merit and wants to focus only on certain demographics.

BTW grades are massively inflated in DCPS and I would argue not really objective data. Having a 3.9 at Dunbar where we know that teaching is not at or above grade level vs a 3.9 at Deal or Basis are 2 totally different beasts. That is why now almost 1/3rd of the freshman class at Walls is scoring below grade level in math on PARCC.

Well, these are really comments for a different thread.

Considering the TJ folks were just spanked by a conservative Supreme Court for their lawsuit…nobody is suing DCPS over this.

[Anonymous]

1. Financial malfeasance at DCPS Central and OSSE level. The amount they spend on consultants and studies that are useless is truly awe-inspiring.
2. Accountability for Administration. Teachers have impact and other measures - let's have a system in place to get rid of bad non-teaching staff.
3. Lack of accountability or follow up for physical assault on teachers, staff and other students.
4. Lack of accountability for being tardy, disruptive or missing class outright.
5. Special Education needs more bodies to teach, not less but it's hard to find teachers so not sure what the answer is.
6. Title IV for sports?
7. Eliminate the ability to hand in late homework up until end of term - not good for the students who are not learning and puts a huge burden on teachers. Okay - not sure if that one is illegal or just stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Overcrowding the BES/CES rooms

In relation to this, having students in the most restrictive self-contained settings who don’t need to be there.

I sued an won!

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Not providing FAPE - Special Education teacher went on Maternity and there were no services for the entire leave. The school did not care. Their approach - go get outside services. My kid did not need outside services over the summer - they needed instruction during the school year in order to access the curriculum. By not having special education during the school year - grades were not where they should have been. GPA in High School Matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Financial malfeasance at DCPS Central and OSSE level. The amount they spend on consultants and studies that are useless is truly awe-inspiring.
2. Accountability for Administration. Teachers have impact and other measures - let's have a system in place to get rid of bad non-teaching staff.
3. Lack of accountability or follow up for physical assault on teachers, staff and other students.
4. Lack of accountability for being tardy, disruptive or missing class outright.
5. Special Education needs more bodies to teach, not less but it's hard to find teachers so not sure what the answer is.
6. Title IV for sports?
7. Eliminate the ability to hand in late homework up until end of term - not good for the students who are not learning and puts a huge burden on teachers. Okay - not sure if that one is illegal or just stupid.

+1000

Students are routinely 30-60 minutes tardy to school and/or skip class daily. Even at what the public thinks is a stellar school. No accountability.

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The locked bathrooms at Deal, if that is still a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:closing schools for a year and a half during the pandemic because the teachers union wanted the world's longest paid vacation

Here we go, remember if you hate teachers you can home school.

Well, as you'll remember, 99 percent of other schools in this country were open...

Funny how no one cares about COVID anymore even though it hasn't gone anywhere.

Is that a serious comment? On the chance it is and you're not understanding what's different, it's not that COVID has changed -- its that we have. There is almost no one left in the population with a COVID-naive immune system. I'm in no way trying to minimize the concerns of anyone immunocompromised, but the ability of the virus to spread as quickly and lead to most serious health outcomes (on average) is much less today.

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Anonymous wrote:Removing all objective measures within selective high school admissions to hide that discrimination is taking place on the basis of race.

Hyperbolic much? Racist a lot?

Pipe down. If you grew up in a city with at least one bona fide magnet high school that admits mainly via a tough entrance exam--Chicago, Boston, New York, Dallas, San Fran etc.-- you know what BS the chaotic, unstable and highly discretionary admission systems to Walls is.

Signed - Stuyvesant grad from low-income Asian family where parents spoke lousy English

You may be right…but you do know times have changed, yes? TJ has overhauled their admissions…Lowell in San Fran…I believe even NYC schools while bringing back the test, are still far more discretionary.

I don’t care about having a more objective admissions criteria, but any school supported by the entire city has to accept a certain %age of kids in each ward based on student populations.

Of course, the Wards that are most convenient to Walls will still benefit because there will be kids that are three bus rides away with 90 minute commutes that won’t accept their slots.

If you changed your comments to say that a school supported by the city should accept a certain percentage of the kids meeting a reasonable threshold from each ward, I could agree with you. I do believe that it's ok to take out the kids scoring below grade level before applying the percentage to the remaining in a ward-conscious system (though my preference would be a test other than PARCC and I'm ok with an in person writing sample). If there are more eligible kids than slots, a lottery or mildly weighted teacher reqs (that are more pass/fail than rankings) are fine with me.

[Anonymous]

I’d sue to outlaw Iready and Zearn as math instruction and to bring back math textbooks and direct instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d sue to outlaw Iready and Zearn as math instruction and to bring back math textbooks and direct instruction.

I would join you!

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How student PII is shared with 3rd party vendors

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Anonymous wrote:Unequal access to immersion programs due to it primarily being based on an address.

Yes

[Anonymous]

So many people up in arms about accountability for tardiness and absenteeism but then how many people tell others to pull their kids out for a great vacation deal.

One rule for all or just for them.