Intresting Idea! Wilson as a test in Magnet

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Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

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Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

Having a failing HS is the same as having no neighborhood school. So how is it fair that your neighborhood has the only decent performing HS?

This is completely ridiculous. So your solution is to destroy the only descent performing HS? I can't have it, so nobody can?

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Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

There are no neighborhood high schools, you are living in made up land. The ward 3 parents can go to there newly assigned school, compete of OBB slots or test into the new proper Magnet just like everyone else. Private is also an option if you can afford it with your mortgage that is.

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Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

It will make all the others better and the smart kids can keep it. Ward 3 likes to think of it's self as the civilized part of the city, time to prove it.
Having a failing HS is the same as having no neighborhood school. So how is it fair that your neighborhood has the only decent performing HS?

This is completely ridiculous. So your solution is to destroy the only descent performing HS? I can't have it, so nobody can?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

There are no neighborhood high schools, you are living in made up land. The ward 3 parents can go to there newly assigned school, compete of OBB slots or test into the new proper Magnet just like everyone else. Private is also an option if you can afford it with your mortgage that is.

As a practical matter there is only one neighborhood high school in the city today, Wilson. All of the others have excess capacity and take all comers, so the boundaries are meaningless (except for the application schools of course). So converting Wilson would put the entire city on the same footing. Soviet style equality for all.

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Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

Many private schools seem to have small high schools -- under 300 kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

And Ward 4 has none.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

And Ward 4 has none.

Ward 3 parents argued during the redistricting meetings that Ward 4 should be kicked out of Deal and Wilson and get their own HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

And Ward 4 has none.

Ward 3 parents argued during the redistricting meetings that Ward 4 should be kicked out of Deal and Wilson and get their own HS.

Ward 4 has McFarland MS, and two high schools, Coolidge and Roosevelt. 1100+ Ward 4 kids are in a feeder path to Deal right now, including Lafayette kids. If they all went to a Ward 4 MS and HS, it would look just look Deal and Wilson overnight, especially if that pulls in the Ward 4 students who are OOB for Deal and Wilson now. The numbers are there to make it work.

The problem is, no one wants to give it a try.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

Ward 2 has no neighborhood high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where OP do you propose to send the students that currently go to or have rights to Wilson? How do you propose to get them to actually do that?

No OP, but boundaries would be redrawn, and Wilson becomes a city-wide magnet.

Given the size of the Wilson boundary, they probably wouldn't all be zoned to the same school.

Students could apply to the new Wilson magnet school, or one of the other application school, or go to their new IB.

Whether they do it or not is their choice.

But what becomes the neighborhood high school if Wilson becomes a "magnet," non-neighborhood, school. Tenleytown would become the only area of the city without a neighborhood school, how fair is that?

DCP could look to MoCo for viable models dating to the 80s.


This makes sense to me, but perhaps based somewhere other than Wilson (which, as others have pointed out, is already overcrowded and not very convenient for everyone).

Blair Montgomery houses 2 test-in magnets, each with a county-wide draw, and Richard Montgomery houses its own magnet, an IB Diploma program. These several magnets are in such demand that they admit around 10% of 8th grade applicants.

In-boundary students enjoy a preference when applying for magnets because around 25% of spots are reserved for them. There are also theme academies within the schools, some with its own published admissions requirements. If no magnet or academy admits your child at your neighborhood school, they can still attend. They can also apply to the magnets and academies every year they attend in the hopes of filling a spot opened by attrition. Something for everybody at neighborhood schools housing school-within-a-school programs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

And Ward 4 has none.

Ward 3 parents argued during the redistricting meetings that Ward 4 should be kicked out of Deal and Wilson and get their own HS.

Ward 4 has McFarland MS, and two high schools, Coolidge and Roosevelt. 1100+ Ward 4 kids are in a feeder path to Deal right now, including Lafayette kids. If they all went to a Ward 4 MS and HS, it would look just look Deal and Wilson overnight, especially if that pulls in the Ward 4 students who are OOB for Deal and Wilson now. The numbers are there to make it work.

The problem is, no one wants to give it a try.

I don't think MacFarland has had a problem filling seats as it rolls out. What's your problem with it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make Stuart Hobson the MS Magnet as an interim step to getting all the selfish idiots on capitol hill to attend their neighborhood school so we can have another Wilson pyramid by now

There aren't nearly enough educated families on Cap Hill to make another Wilson. The other problem is that part of DC gets Sketchy before you even leave CH let alone all the areas around it. There is a reason privates and charters will always be the solution there. Little elementary schools are one thing, high schools are a complete different beast

I don't think you could make another Wilson but if all of the Cap Hill families stayed home I think you would have a HS that would be very attractive to most families in the district. Again, the issue is MS. Why Ward 3 has 2 MS and Ward 6 has 3 will always be a mystery to me.

And Ward 4 has none.

Ward 3 parents argued during the redistricting meetings that Ward 4 should be kicked out of Deal and Wilson and get their own HS.

Ward 4 has McFarland MS, and two high schools, Coolidge and Roosevelt. 1100+ Ward 4 kids are in a feeder path to Deal right now, including Lafayette kids. If they all went to a Ward 4 MS and HS, it would look just look Deal and Wilson overnight, especially if that pulls in the Ward 4 students who are OOB for Deal and Wilson now. The numbers are there to make it work.

The problem is, no one wants to give it a try.

Yes no one wants to go to a failing school. Weird, huh?!