SWS middle school feed?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why the coddled SWS'ers would think to try to make a change at SH. They already bailed on Watkins by going to SWS. Bail once, bail twice. Until SWS has a proximity preference, no sympathy from me. To EH or beyond with you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the coddled SWS'ers would think to try to make a change at SH. They already bailed on Watkins by going to SWS. Bail once, bail twice. Until SWS has a proximity preference, no sympathy from me. To EH or beyond with you!

Way to show your true colors pro-proximity supporter - it's all about you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

How would no feed be an improvement. If it feeds to EH, people will be able to choose between EH and their IB school. If it doesn't feed at all then your only choice is your IB school. How will having an extra choice, even if it's not one you'd pick, cause people to leave. Wouldn't people who would leave because they don't want EH or their IB School, still leave?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

How would no feed be an improvement. If it feeds to EH, people will be able to choose between EH and their IB school. If it doesn't feed at all then your only choice is your IB school. How will having an extra choice, even if it's not one you'd pick, cause people to leave. Wouldn't people who would leave because they don't want EH or their IB School, still leave?

^^ No kid-coddling helicopter parent at SWS is going to send their DC to EH. I would imagine that even SH in its current state would be off the list; it's off mine.

SWS needs to have a proximity preference; period.

It's not about me, it's about my kids and their neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should really push for no feeder if the option is EH. You will see that kill their 5th grade.

How would no feed be an improvement. If it feeds to EH, people will be able to choose between EH and their IB school. If it doesn't feed at all then your only choice is your IB school. How will having an extra choice, even if it's not one you'd pick, cause people to leave. Wouldn't people who would leave because they don't want EH or their IB School, still leave?

^^ No kid-coddling helicopter parent at SWS is going to send their DC to EH. I would imagine that even SH in its current state would be off the list; it's off mine.

SWS needs to have a proximity preference; period.

It's not about me, it's about my kids and their neighborhood.

It's not going to get it; period. It's about providing options to all the kids in the city, not just your kids and your neighborhood. Whether or not it gets EH as a designated MS to feed is immaterial to that point.

[Anonymous]

^^ Then get a "feed to" MS somewhere else. Period. Why not move out, while you're at it. We could use the space for a school that would contribute to the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did it feed to in option B of the last set of plans?

Eliot-Hine

Eeeeuuuuwwwww. From top to bottom, as it were. Those coddled SWS'ers are in for a reality check!

Many of those "coddled SWS'ers" have a slightly better IB option in Stuart Hobson, but that's not an ideal fallback either. Don't pity us too much -- we'll find good options wherever and in whatever sector.

If you want SH, then you should have a proximity preference.

don't need it -- it's IB for a large chunk of CH. the question is really whether or not cohorts remain together, and that's a big mystery across most of the non-Deal MS options.

It's not a mystery, at the higher SES end - they don't remain together. They fragment to middle schools that are all away from the Hill.

PP here. Didn't mean mystery as in 'I wonder where my kids' classmates will go for MS?' under current conditions I don't accept that at face value with no hope for better options just because parents of older kids have conceded failure at making this kind of positive change happen. Lots can happen in 4-6 years in DC. Deal wasn't that well regarded 10 years ago either.

Your memory is short, or, more likely, you didn't live here because you were finishing up grad school in New England.

Deal was a fine school in 1994 and well-attended by many upper NW kids from Lafayette, Janney and Murch. They didn't take all the spots like they do today, but there were plenty of them in deal's hallways.

-- Deal neighbor

PP here

wow -- swing and a miss, but thanks for playing

I know lots of families in NW who were on the fence about Deal as recently as 3-4 years ago FWIW. They like Janney and some like Murch and Oyster but Deal was iffy. Today they're 100% on board with Deal but that wasn't always the case.

btw Deal neighbor -- what dog do you have in this fight?

Signed Cap Hill resident for 18 years

[Anonymous]

EH might be a good option in a few years. I wonder how many current Maury 4th graders will go there for 6th. Looks like the vast majority of Maury 4th graders are sticking around for 5th - most didn't apply out.

[Anonymous]

My guess is that many Maury 4th graders applied for Latin and didn't get a spot. They are not interested in Basis ( which still has spots open ). They would rather stay at beloved Maury for 5th ( rather than Lottery over to Watkins ) and then try their luck at Stuart Hobson, Two Rivers or Hardy for 6th grade. Retaining 4th graders into 5th says nothing about their plans for Eliot Hine. Probably a wait and see kind if thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that many Maury 4th graders applied for Latin and didn't get a spot. They are not interested in Basis ( which still has spots open ). They would rather stay at beloved Maury for 5th ( rather than Lottery over to Watkins ) and then try their luck at Stuart Hobson, Two Rivers or Hardy for 6th grade. Retaining 4th graders into 5th says nothing about their plans for Eliot Hine. Probably a wait and see kind if thing.

Why aren't they interested in Basis?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

[Anonymous]

At least 9 Maury students will be heading to BASIS for 5th grade next year and are very happy about their choice, and two Maury students will be headed to Latin for 5th and are also happy with their choice. Many of these students and families would have liked to stay at Maury for 5th grade with their classmates but E-H is not seen as option, nor is S-H unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

So is the penalty for attending a city-wide school not being able to stay with your cohort and friends from K-5? You sign on for city wide, you sign on to sending your kid to a new group of students and new environment in MS? I'm not saying I disagree withy his, just wondering what the sentiment is surrounding citywide schools. If DCPS were to add more citywide, specialized schools, is this the general consensus about what should happens to them in MS? Does this mean citywide schools ultimately hurt or help the MS feed... Is this an argument against them?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why SWS needs a middle school feed. Everyone who goes there has an IB school based on their home address. If the school is city-wide on the way in, it should be city-wide on the way out. That is how charters work that are not part of a specific system such as language immersion. If there was a Reggio middle school that was fed by all the city-wide Reggio elementary schools then it would make sense that SWS would get a feed to that. But, since such a middle school doesn't exist and there are no other city-wide Reggio schools to fill up such a middle school, everyone should just return to their IB middle school.

Neighborhood schools are for neighborhood kids. Kids at city-wide schools can fill open spaces at those neighborhood schools through the city-wide OOB lottery.

So is the penalty for attending a city-wide school not being able to stay with your cohort and friends from K-5? You sign on for city wide, you sign on to sending your kid to a new group of students and new environment in MS? I'm not saying I disagree withy his, just wondering what the sentiment is surrounding citywide schools. If DCPS were to add more citywide, specialized schools, is this the general consensus about what should happens to them in MS? Does this mean citywide schools ultimately hurt or help the MS feed... Is this an argument against them?

I wouldn't use the word penalty, since going to a city-wide school isn't a requirement for anyone and staying with your cohort from K-5 is not the most important consideration when considering MS (and, if it was to your family, you could always choose to go to your IB school.) There are lots of kids at K-5 charters whose parents are making the same city-wide choice and will have to make a new choice at MS. I'm not sure it is an argument against city-wide schools. We all make trade offs when choosing schools (or at least choosing to try to get lucky in the lottery) and not having a MS feed seems like a reasonable downside for the upside of getting into a specialized program for ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least 9 Maury students will be heading to BASIS for 5th grade next year and are very happy about their choice, and two Maury students will be headed to Latin for 5th and are also happy with their choice. Many of these students and families would have liked to stay at Maury for 5th grade with their classmates but E-H is not seen as option, nor is S-H unfortunately.

How many moving up from 4th to 5th at Maury then? How many going from 5th at Maury to 6th at Eliot Hine?