Marie Reed in Adams Morgan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Put down the crack pipe. Who pulls out of Cap City for Marie Reed?!

The poster didn't say that people pull from Cap City for Reed, just that spaces open up at Cap City.

Cap City in the upper grades is awful -- seriously awful. The school culture is somewhat acceptable, but there's absolutely no rigor whatsoever. If Reed is worse than I'd stay far way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell you what, why don't YOU solve the nationwide test-as-curriculum problem. It should be easy, all you have to do is go up against all the companies that profit from this, the US Dept. of Education, and virtually every major school district in the country. I'm sure the links you referenced will provide a step-by-step method to have this problem fixed by spring. Just in time for the DC-CAS!

And perhaps while you're solving the problems of US education, you'll be too busy to take cheap shots at parents who like IB and think learning a foreign language is a good thing.

Best of luck!

what cheap shots are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

@11:01, is Cap City that awful in the upper grades? A friend of mine pulled her kid out in 4th grade due to a perceived poor math emphasis, but I've always kinda thought I'd keep it in my back pocket for the upper grades if my local ES goes south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:@11:01, is Cap City that awful in the upper grades? A friend of mine pulled her kid out in 4th grade due to a perceived poor math emphasis, but I've always kinda thought I'd keep it in my back pocket for the upper grades if my local ES goes south.

Cap City JUST STARTED upper grades. It is in its infancy, not to be compared with the vast majority of DCPS which has flailed and failed for years. If not decades.

[Anonymous]

Reed boosters beware...Neil Albert and co. have designs on selling m reed out even tho the principal is great and more families are discovering a gem...this is why it lingers unrenovated...parents should seek a pro boon architect and take preliminary plans to v gray and demand attention ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reed boosters beware...Neil Albert and co. have designs on selling m reed out even tho the principal is great and more families are discovering a gem...this is why it lingers unrenovated...parents should seek a pro boon architect and take preliminary plans to v gray and demand attention ...

Don't see how there can be money left for renovations. The budget is going to get big cuts everywhere - even education. If you don't have a new building, you're probably not getting one.

[Anonymous]

They wil always find a way to find the $$ if there is grass roots movement by families in that neighborhood. The point is, the city will SELL THE WHOLE PROPERTY rather than keep it a growing, good DCPS with outdoor space. The neighborhood could really use a public library, what a great mixed-use that would be. But first families need to be informed that this huge commercially valuable area is vulnerable to become more condos and then watch the taquerias up Columbia Rd. become Bennatons and banks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They wil always find a way to find the $$ if there is grass roots movement by families in that neighborhood. The point is, the city will SELL THE WHOLE PROPERTY rather than keep it a growing, good DCPS with outdoor space. The neighborhood could really use a public library, what a great mixed-use that would be. But first families need to be informed that this huge commercially valuable area is vulnerable to become more condos and then watch the taquerias up Columbia Rd. become Bennatons and banks.

Right now, the city is underpaying on all its contracts by 10% with no guarantee that money will come through. It can't afford the schools it already has. Or the firemen. Or the police. Much less the libraries. Or clinic services. Or park facilities. Or trash pick-up. Or road repair. Etc. The salad days of school renovations are over.