Roosevelt High School in Petworth?
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Anonymous
Well, the boundary data suggests that less than half of kids zoned for Roosevelt go there. So a lot of those kids opting for other schools are not white, unless you want to argue that the Roosevelt boundary is half white, and all of the white kids and none of the Black and Latino/a kids opt out. |
Anonymous
Sorry; meant to respond to the "900 kids go there" post, not your's. |
Anonymous
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21.5% of the IB students attend Roosevelt. That's 482 students out of 2,241 who are zoned for it and who attend a DCPS or DC charter.
More than 600 students who IB go to CHEC, Haynes, or Coolidge, which are all schools with basically no white kids. And that's just from the top 4 schools. (The other one is JR.) So already, most of the non-white kids who are zoned for Roosevelt do not attend Roosevelt. |
Anonymous
Your desire to stir sht up is exceeded by how stupid and ill-informed you are about DC schools. When my Black family moved to Petworth, the first thing all the neighborhood Black and Brown families did was share their tips for using the lottery to get into other schools. |
Anonymous
The schools fine. People are just being alarmist and judgy. |
Anonymous
I’m a DCPS teacher. I would not send my kid to Roosevelt. I don’t know any teacher who would send their kid to Roosevelt. |
Anonymous
Not good. |
Anonymous
| I taught at Roosevelt nearly a decade ago. Reading this thread is depressing - it seems like nothing has really changed. Yes, there is a of kids who show up every day, put their head down and try to get their education despite the chaos around them, but it was a very small percentage. I can't speak to the school culture now (I think there have been at least 3 new principals since the two I had in my tenure there, nor do I keep in touch with the current faculty) but I don't see how things would change meaningfully without a drastic intervention. |
Anonymous
| What drastic intervention would actually change anything at Roosevelt? I just can’t seem to figure out what can change outcomes for the majority of students at schools like this. Seems like we just keep not succeeding at educating so many kids. |
Anonymous
Well that is simply part and parcel of attending a public school in a large metropolitan area. |
Anonymous
This is probably a stupid question, but if so few IB students attend, who is actually there? Is the school just super under enrolled with IB students? |
Anonymous
Roosevelt is currently at 81% utilization of their capacity. In addition to the IB students, there are some OOB students. There are a lot of schools in DC that don't have the capacity for all of their in-boundary students, which makes sense, since that would be a lot of unused capacity. |
Anonymous
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Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.
OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk. |
Anonymous
Again, you can see where IB students are going instead in the enrollment data, and it's not just either rich or white families that opt out of Roosevelt. You can decide the fact that families of all kinds say no to Roosevelt isn't relevant, but I think it is. |
Anonymous
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This. I got the same unsolicited advice when I was pregnant. Generations of middle class neighborhood families have avoided schools like Roosevelt. White families don’t have some greater obligation to put their kids in failing schools than Black and Brown families do. A few white savior pioneer types try MacFarland for middle school, but I’ve yet to see any stick around for Roosevelt. I’m sure there’s a few, but I’ve never ran into any in my 15 years in the neighborhood. |