Overcrowding and lack of space in Ward 3 Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about segregation?

Tracking is segregation

In the lexicon of DC politics.

The definition of segregation is to separate, keep apart. You're the one projected race into the matter. But you're right in a sense, when most DCUM claims that they want tracking, what they really mean is they want Yale and jail tracks for all schools. Look at Brent, if there were tracking, only half the white kids there would qualify for the at-grade-level-track.

Race aside, what does tracking really do? Will it make you stay at your IB school all the way to Eastern and Dunbar? Probably not. If that were the case more of your white folks would be going to Banneker. The only real solution you want is increased housing to push out blacks and poor people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell will segregation do other than keep the poors in separate classrooms? How is that addressing 75% of DCPS? You do know white kids only account for a small percent of DCPS, right? So separate classrooms at each school to account for 30%?

why are you assuming only rich white kid would get tracked? I can assure you that the professional AA parents in our class playing lottery too to avoid the same thing we are.

The schools you're asking for tracking for are only 30% at level. How can that be cost effective?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reclaim Hardy, for one.

Reduce/remove feeder rights.

+1. Stop taking any OOB at schools that are way beyond official capacity (eg, Eaton!)

Stop feeder rights for OOB; if you want to and can go to an elementary school OOB, that should only give you a middle-school preference depending on space, not automatic entry if the MS is over-capacity. Same for MS to HS.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about segregation?

Tracking is segregation

Nope.

What is segregation is your stupid binary brain.

[Anonymous]

If you get rid of PK in Ward 3 - and curtail OOB - then I think the rest of the city should reciprocate: No Ward 3 PK3-4 squatting in our schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you get rid of PK in Ward 3 - and curtail OOB - then I think the rest of the city should reciprocate: No Ward 3 PK3-4 squatting in our schools.

Deal.

Start tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about segregation?

Tracking is segregation

Nope.

What is segregation is your stupid binary brain.

seg·re·ga·tion
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noun
noun: segregation
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
"the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell will segregation do other than keep the poors in separate classrooms? How is that addressing 75% of DCPS? You do know white kids only account for a small percent of DCPS, right? So separate classrooms at each school to account for 30%?

why are you assuming only rich white kid would get tracked? I can assure you that the professional AA parents in our class playing lottery too to avoid the same thing we are.

The schools you're asking for tracking for are only 30% at level. How can that be cost effective?

What does that even mean? Which schools? At what level? and 30% of what?

[Anonymous]

If you kick out the OOB who come via the lottery you will replace them with 10% at risk students. Just understand that and be careful what you wish for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you kick out the OOB who come via the lottery you will replace them with 10% at risk students. Just understand that and be careful what you wish for.

Most of the schools already have 10% at risk. Certainly Deal and Wilson which is the real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a newsletter in my inbox this morning from Ruth Wattenberg. This was one of the items:

Ward3-Wilson Feeder School Education Network meetings

Wed, Feb 23,
6:45 PM
Tenley Library
with Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh.
The focus of the meeting will be to talk about the overcrowding and lack of space in the W3/Wilson Feeder schools and possible solutions.


What do you think? What are the solutions?

Were the ward 4 Wilson feeders invited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you kick out the OOB who come via the lottery you will replace them with 10% at risk students. Just understand that and be careful what you wish for.

You keep posting this. Know that this is not scary to any Ward 3 parents who can do basic math. It would be a huge improvement to overcrowding at Wilson. Can we start next year, please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell will segregation do other than keep the poors in separate classrooms? How is that addressing 75% of DCPS? You do know white kids only account for a small percent of DCPS, right? So separate classrooms at each school to account for 30%?

why are you assuming only rich white kid would get tracked? I can assure you that the professional AA parents in our class playing lottery too to avoid the same thing we are.

The schools you're asking for tracking for are only 30% at level. How can that be cost effective?

how is it effective for a teacher in third grade to fully teach and challenge a class where 75% of the kids are least 1 or 2 grades levels behind and 15% are 1 or 2 grade levels ahead? They focus on the struggling students who will bring down test scores is what they do. The attitude is always, the smart kids "will be just fine" --since their parents will pick up the slack. that may be true but then why waste 8 hours of my kids time in a classroom if there is no challenge to it. Ask a teacher. So you tell me what would be "effecttive" to serve all kids during the school day??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a newsletter in my inbox this morning from Ruth Wattenberg. This was one of the items:

Ward3-Wilson Feeder School Education Network meetings

Wed, Feb 23,
6:45 PM
Tenley Library
with Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh.
The focus of the meeting will be to talk about the overcrowding and lack of space in the W3/Wilson Feeder schools and possible solutions.


What do you think? What are the solutions?

Were the ward 4 Wilson feeders invited?

Yes they are the "/Wilson feeders" part of the name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solutions:

--Add additional space.
--Get rid of PK classrooms.
--Shrink boundaries
--Open a new elementary school (or one devoted just to Early Education) in Ward 3 to take off some of the pressure.
--Leave as is and suffer through knowing that the bubble will pass.

Office of planning doesn't think it's a bubble. They're projecting DC will exceed its all-time high population by 2030. Fifty years ago DCPS had almost 150,000 students.

that would mean doubling the existing population of public ed students in the next 12-13 years. Don't see how tha'ts remotely possble

The projections don't show the school-age population going back to 1960's levels, but they do predict something like 35,000 more elementary-age kids in ten years. That would mean each of DCPS' 90 elementary schools taking an additional 400 students.

I kind of feel the projections are like global warming: if true, they are so catastrophic that people just can't imagine them happening.

Not realy -- charters would take a good chunk of that increase. I don't think 35K is unreasonable to handle but 90K not realistic. DC can always add additional seats or expand charter licenses if demand out of balance with supply. They can't double capactity in 12 years