Janney: Good, or the BEST?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of parents who do not seem that hung up on testing at NW schools. Is this a class attitude? Serious question here.

For e.g. No many parents who push for enrichment classes there, not wanting homework for kids, more easy going parents who want an easy childhood for their progeny.

Yes, I think it correlates with education. Homework, focus on testable langauge skills and math, etc. look good on the surface, but the research disagrees. The research says to foster love of learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree, DCPS teaches way too much to the test and it's good to see a school that pushes against that a bit. I saw Kaya Henderson on a PBS program the other day, and she was embarrassing. This is the best that DC could do the last 8 years for school leadership?

Amen

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

God, I'm so glad we didn't buy that house IB for Key! The Key snobs on this board are insufferable. Does that area support Trump?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of parents who do not seem that hung up on testing at NW schools. Is this a class attitude? Serious question here.

For e.g. No many parents who push for enrichment classes there, not wanting homework for kids, more easy going parents who want an easy childhood for their progeny.

Yes, I think it correlates with education. Homework, focus on testable langauge skills and math, etc. look good on the surface, but the research disagrees. The research says to foster love of learning.

+1. The higher the education of the parents, the less they care about standardized tests for their kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

Mann parents don't deign to go to Janney either, but let's not let the Janney cheerleaders stop themselves from being "THE BEST!!" (One can almost picture them cartwheeling across their sorority house lawns, trying to attract pledges...)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

God, I'm so glad we didn't buy that house IB for Key! The Key snobs on this board are insufferable. Does that area support Trump?

The city is 90+ percent democratic. Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound if that is your go to insult?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

Mann parents don't deign to go to Janney either, but let's not let the Janney cheerleaders stop themselves from being "THE BEST!!" (One can almost picture them cartwheeling across their sorority house lawns, trying to attract pledges...)

You know, the nice thing about AU Park is that it's relatively free of people like you guys. People are pretty down to earth, and few actual Janney parents care if their school is "the best".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

God, I'm so glad we didn't buy that house IB for Key! The Key snobs on this board are insufferable. Does that area support Trump?

The city is 90+ percent democratic. Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound if that is your go to insult?

I think the point was that putting people down for their lesser wealth, smaller houses, etc. is pretty Trumpian. Those posters may not actually vote Republican, but their attitude displayed here is along exactly those lines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of parents who do not seem that hung up on testing at NW schools. Is this a class attitude? Serious question here.

For e.g. No many parents who push for enrichment classes there, not wanting homework for kids, more easy going parents who want an easy childhood for their progeny.

Yes, I think it correlates with education. Homework, focus on testable langauge skills and math, etc. look good on the surface, but the research disagrees. The research says to foster love of learning.

+1. The higher the education of the parents, the less they care about standardized tests for their kids.

Bullshit.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janney's scores are going down because it's so crowded. No longer the best, but still a very good school.

This.

Not sure if it was ever considered the best. Def top 5.

I'm truly curious how all these posters are even making any of these ranking judgments. Is it purely on the basis of test scores? If so, that's a pretty useless metric at this level (when we are talking schools with a generally high level of proficiency). As someone whose kids are not yet at Janney, it would be interesting to hear something about the more important factors that go into assessing the quality of a school. You know, principal, teachers, special programs, extra-curricular offerings, facilities, aftercare, etc. Crowding has been mentioned, but from what I have heard from Janney parents and on this board, the class sizes (outside of a couple of recent balloon grades) are actually not that big and have been going down lately. The Janney parent community has been maligned, but those rumors haven't corresponded to my experience of actual parents I have met in real life.

Ultimately, the premise of the thread is as ridiculous as many of the responses.

Do you ask the same of parents that claim Janney is the best? What's wrong with being considered top 5? For me, it's nice that class sizes are now smaller, I still wouldn't want my kid to go to a elementary school where he's a small fish in a big pond. Having 4-6 classes per grade seems too much for me. I would rather save that experience for middle and high school. Also, I would like a little more racial and economic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janney's scores are going down because it's so crowded. No longer the best, but still a very good school.

This.

Not sure if it was ever considered the best. Def top 5.

I'm truly curious how all these posters are even making any of these ranking judgments. Is it purely on the basis of test scores? If so, that's a pretty useless metric at this level (when we are talking schools with a generally high level of proficiency). As someone whose kids are not yet at Janney, it would be interesting to hear something about the more important factors that go into assessing the quality of a school. You know, principal, teachers, special programs, extra-curricular offerings, facilities, aftercare, etc. Crowding has been mentioned, but from what I have heard from Janney parents and on this board, the class sizes (outside of a couple of recent balloon grades) are actually not that big and have been going down lately. The Janney parent community has been maligned, but those rumors haven't corresponded to my experience of actual parents I have met in real life.

Ultimately, the premise of the thread is as ridiculous as many of the responses.

Do you ask the same of parents that claim Janney is the best? What's wrong with being considered top 5? For me, it's nice that class sizes are now smaller, I still wouldn't want my kid to go to a elementary school where he's a small fish in a big pond. Having 4-6 classes per grade seems too much for me. I would rather save that experience for middle and high school. Also, I would like a little more racial and economic diversity.

The obvious answer to your question is yes.

[Anonymous]

There's the best.... and then there's all the rest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

God, I'm so glad we didn't buy that house IB for Key! The Key snobs on this board are insufferable. Does that area support Trump?

The city is 90+ percent democratic. Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound if that is your go to insult?

I think the point was that putting people down for their lesser wealth, smaller houses, etc. is pretty Trumpian. Those posters may not actually vote Republican, but their attitude displayed here is along exactly those lines.

Puh-leez. AU Park is more expensive than the Palisades and certainly Foxhall Village. The highest earners in both neighborhoods do not even go to public schools. I reckon the average income at Key is lower than at Janney. That being said, OP, yes, please move to Janney and away from Key.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll. No key parents post on DCUM and/or deign to go to Janney

+ 1. Heard at key auction "what's an 'AU Park'? How close is that to Jackson Hole?"

God, I'm so glad we didn't buy that house IB for Key! The Key snobs on this board are insufferable. Does that area support Trump?

The city is 90+ percent democratic. Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound if that is your go to insult?

I think the point was that putting people down for their lesser wealth, smaller houses, etc. is pretty Trumpian. Those posters may not actually vote Republican, but their attitude displayed here is along exactly those lines.

Puh-leez. AU Park is more expensive than the Palisades and certainly Foxhall Village. The highest earners in both neighborhoods do not even go to public schools. I reckon the average income at Key is lower than at Janney. That being said, OP, yes, please move to Janney and away from Key.

No idea if that's true, but it's besides the point. Over and over on these Janney threads, Key and Mann posters show up to mock AU Park's small houses and their supposedly overextended, cash-strapped owners who are supposedly desperate for recognition, while Key and Mann parents would never "deign" to consider Janney. That's eye roll worthy and yeah, kind of Trumpian.