Integration in pre k vs high school
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Anonymous
Really, what are you and PP doing to make the schools better. Nothing. Be the change you want and stop biatching on the Internet. Also, who cares if either of you are impressed. There are options in DC. If you don't like the options, start your own charter school as other parents before you have; have your child apply to one of the application schools and get involved in making the school better, that is if your child can actually get into one of the schools; go private (again if your child has the smarts to apply and get accepte; or, move to FFX county and hope that your child can compete and get an acceptance letter for TJ. |
Anonymous
+1 Same here! Neither Wilson or Banneker impress me and I'm African American. It's not about race for me, but about the program/curriculum quality that a school offers. Really, what are you and PP doing to make the schools better. Nothing. Be the change you want and stop biatching on the Internet. Also, who cares if either of you are impressed. There are options in DC. If you don't like the options, start your own charter school as other parents before you have; have your child apply to one of the application schools and get involved in making the school better, that is if your child can actually get into one of the schools; go private (again if your child has the smarts to apply and get accepte; or, move to FFX county and hope that your child can compete and get an acceptance letter for TJ. I am a tax payer and DCPS has millions upon millions of dollars and tons of "professionals" who should be able to offer a school in the same league as TJ so why should I be the change agent.  Or perhaps you are saying DCPS is too incompetent to do so???
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Anonymous
Really, what are you and PP doing to make the schools better. Nothing. Be the change you want and stop biatching on the Internet. Also, who cares if either of you are impressed. There are options in DC. If you don't like the options, start your own charter school as other parents before you have; have your child apply to one of the application schools and get involved in making the school better, that is if your child can actually get into one of the schools; go private (again if your child has the smarts to apply and get accepte; or, move to FFX county and hope that your child can compete and get an acceptance letter for TJ. I am a tax payer and DCPS has millions upon millions of dollars and tons of "professionals" who should be able to offer a school in the same league as TJ so why should I be the change agent. Or perhaps you are saying DCPS is too incompetent to do so???
No, what I am saying is that you and your ilk are deliberately obtuse. You bring TJ up on every DC school forum and it is O-L-D! As mentioned each and every time, DC has application schools. The schools are the sum total of the students who apply and attend. If you want better students (your words) then said students need apply. The courses and curriculum is already provided. TJ is a school of 2000 students with An available population size of 1.8 million people (primarily middle to upper income HHI). DC population is a little over half million with a significant number of people living below the poverty line. |
Anonymous
I never brought up better students. I posted about better curricula and schools in the same league as TJ. There is no reason why DC could not offer a school in the same league as TJ even if it were a smaller school. The DCPS test in schools do not have the same rigorous course offerings that TJ does nor do they have the same rigorous admission criteria. |
Anonymous
The fact that you yourself are so dim-witted makes the rest of us suspect that your genetic offspring would have difficulty gaining admission to a school as rigorous as TJ. Try this again. The district isn't going to create a school exactly like TJ, with the same curriculum and entrance criteria, because such a school in the district would serve about 70 students. Maybe 50 students. That's a fair guess of how many DC residents could gain admission to TJ next year in Virginia and acquit themselves well. Do you think it makes sense to build an entire high school with TJ's ridiculously expensive lab equipment for 70 kids? Does it make sense to hire a duplicate set of TJ's current range of faculty to serve 50 kids instead of 2,000 kids? You see the same thing in practice with the fact that the distinct of Columbia has no medical school, no accredited law school, and no true university. The numbers of potential students just aren't there. So, grow the fuck up, learn your history, or move with your genius family to fairfax. |
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+1000. Thanks, PP. And to those recommending that s/he starts a "charter" to on a par with TJ, get over yourselves. DCPC won't even allow native-speaking kids to be recruited by language immersion charter schools to help raise standards for the rest. No hope of supporting TJ level programs in this city without ES GT and much more serious, race-blind test-in programs. A charter has no hope of competing - the law won't allow it.
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Above aimed at 10:56, not 11:09, you cretin.
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Anonymous
| Now the irony of the TJ students versus the application only schools students of the District...many are students at the same college/universities. Go Figure. |
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Actually I think you are way underestimating the potential number of students who would excel at a school like TJ right here in the district. You need to get out more.
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Anonymous
I've lived here longer than you have, and I'm out a lot, thanks. I considered objective, national data points such as national merit commendations, SAT scores, Siemens or Intel science finalists and presidential scholars. There are a whopping 15 winners every year from a public HS in the district, and another few dozen kids who live in DC and attend GDS, Sidwell and sta/Ncs. The embarrassing SAT score situation at banneker and sww has already been discussed at length, so I won't beat them up further. Where do you believe these thousands of genius middle schoolers are hiding in the District? Seriously. Put up or shut up. Tell us: where? |
Anonymous
Such a schools would not need thousands to be successful at all. It could be successful with a few hundred. Then you forget about all of the people moving into DC. |
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DINKS. Thats who's moving into all these 900 square feet condos. |
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