What happened to Brent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is not a goal? What are you smoking? A municipality's tax base expands dramatically when neighborhoods gentrify. Pols and school system leaders adore gentrification.

They need to work harder to keep gentrifiers then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. More gentrifiers, more good schools in the inner city (built partly on a good deal of free parent labor) and some struggling boats rise with the tide.

Bullshit. You get over yourself. DC public ed will be successful when it can't just cherry pick results from students who will thrive anywhere.

Outside of Wilson feed and a few isolated ES schools in NW and Cap Hill, what DCPS schools have benefited from gentrifiers aside from the odd bump in ECE enrollment?

I mean, you’ve excluded some of the areas that the phenomenon is most applicable to. Brookland and nearby are sort of weird cases because of all the good charter schools in the neighborhood that actually draw largely from the surrounding environs (day 50%).

But even schools that haven’t really gentrified except for the ECE level have benefited in terms of resources. At Miner, roughly 80% of the PTA donations value-wise come from ECE parents, but the funds are spent fairly proportionately among the various grade levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. More gentrifiers, more good schools in the inner city (built partly on a good deal of free parent labor) and some struggling boats rise with the tide.

Bullshit. You get over yourself. DC public ed will be successful when it can't just cherry pick results from students who will thrive anywhere.

Outside of Wilson feed and a few isolated ES schools in NW and Cap Hill, what DCPS schools have benefited from gentrifiers aside from the odd bump in ECE enrollment?

I mean, you’ve excluded some of the areas that the phenomenon is most applicable to. Brookland and nearby are sort of weird cases because of all the good charter schools in the neighborhood that actually draw largely from the surrounding environs (day 50%).

But even schools that haven’t really gentrified except for the ECE level have benefited in terms of resources. At Miner, roughly 80% of the PTA donations value-wise come from ECE parents, but the funds are spent fairly proportionately among the various grade levels.

+100. Poor kids and neighborhoods don't benefit when UMC families reject a school system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tax base expanded, more money pumped into school system to pay for everything from better teacher training to more supplies, from new building renovations to updated tech, from more special subjects to richer extra-curriculars. Stepping out of schools, more police on the streets, better maintained city parks, more job training and placement support for struggling families etc. etc.

and yet the schools are what they are

Schools in gentrified areas seem to be 4-5 stars. You’re welcome.

not sure you understand what the term "gentrification" means

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. More gentrifiers, more good schools in the inner city (built partly on a good deal of free parent labor) and some struggling boats rise with the tide.

Bullshit. You get over yourself. DC public ed will be successful when it can't just cherry pick results from students who will thrive anywhere.

Outside of Wilson feed and a few isolated ES schools in NW and Cap Hill, what DCPS schools have benefited from gentrifiers aside from the odd bump in ECE enrollment?

I mean, you’ve excluded some of the areas that the phenomenon is most applicable to. Brookland and nearby are sort of weird cases because of all the good charter schools in the neighborhood that actually draw largely from the surrounding environs (day 50%).

But even schools that haven’t really gentrified except for the ECE level have benefited in terms of resources. At Miner, roughly 80% of the PTA donations value-wise come from ECE parents, but the funds are spent fairly proportionately among the various grade levels.

+100. Poor kids and neighborhoods don't benefit when UMC families reject a school system.

Miner has benefited far more from being a Title 1 school than getting some gentrifiers to ride out a few years of ECE and kicking into PTA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tax base expanded, more money pumped into school system to pay for everything from better teacher training to more supplies, from new building renovations to updated tech, from more special subjects to richer extra-curriculars. Stepping out of schools, more police on the streets, better maintained city parks, more job training and placement support for struggling families etc. etc.

and yet the schools are what they are

Schools in gentrified areas seem to be 4-5 stars. You’re welcome.

not sure you understand what the term "gentrification" means

I’m not sure that you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. More gentrifiers, more good schools in the inner city (built partly on a good deal of free parent labor) and some struggling boats rise with the tide.

Bullshit. You get over yourself. DC public ed will be successful when it can't just cherry pick results from students who will thrive anywhere.

Outside of Wilson feed and a few isolated ES schools in NW and Cap Hill, what DCPS schools have benefited from gentrifiers aside from the odd bump in ECE enrollment?

I mean, you’ve excluded some of the areas that the phenomenon is most applicable to. Brookland and nearby are sort of weird cases because of all the good charter schools in the neighborhood that actually draw largely from the surrounding environs (day 50%).

But even schools that haven’t really gentrified except for the ECE level have benefited in terms of resources. At Miner, roughly 80% of the PTA donations value-wise come from ECE parents, but the funds are spent fairly proportionately among the various grade levels.

+100. Poor kids and neighborhoods don't benefit when UMC families reject a school system.

Miner has benefited far more from being a Title 1 school than getting some gentrifiers to ride out a few years of ECE and kicking into PTA

Miner would benefit from becoming a neighborhood school on Capitol Hill with stable leadership and a diverse student body, e.g. Maury, Brent, the Cluster, now Ludlow-Taylor. Losing Title 1 status is a sign that dramatic change for the better is underway.

[Anonymous]

NO, the goal is teaching and reaching all learners. If you are only good at keeping UPC white kids smart- welp...

Also, Brent parents I do owe you an apology. You are not the worst. The Ross parents are the worst. They are 'outraged' at their 4 star rating and are actually crafting a petition. They super suck.

[Anonymous]

What do you really know about Brent? No kids in the school, no experience working on parent committees. Go away. Please find another school to bash, knee jerk bleeding heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you really know about Brent? No kids in the school, no experience working on parent committees. Go away. Please find another school to bash, knee jerk bleeding heart.

OH, if only that were true.

OR, I work at a higher rated school and think you all could stand to learn a lot about how to reach all learners. We do things differently here- and it works. For white folks property values and for the original residents of DC. You know- the ones you want to push out.

But keep being pissed. And stick with your 4 stars.

[Anonymous]

I want to know about the Ross petition - that’s nuts!

[Anonymous]

The Ross parents really must have something better to do. We're rolling our eyes over our 4-stars at Brent. Maybe the 4 stars will help us cope with crowding! We could use some help on that front. Rumor has it that we're getting two more trailers in AUgust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ross parents really must have something better to do. We're rolling our eyes over our 4-stars at Brent. Maybe the 4 stars will help us cope with crowding! We could use some help on that front. Rumor has it that we're getting two more trailers in AUgust.

For all the hand wringing over Brent's feeder, Jefferson scored a respectable 3 stars. Obvious room for improvement but probably better result than many in Brent community would have assumed

[Anonymous]

Fair enough. But then some of us in the Brent District who've been following developments at both schools are left wondering if the new ranking system is simply silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ross parents really must have something better to do. We're rolling our eyes over our 4-stars at Brent. Maybe the 4 stars will help us cope with crowding! We could use some help on that front. Rumor has it that we're getting two more trailers in AUgust.

For all the hand wringing over Brent's feeder, Jefferson scored a respectable 3 stars. Obvious room for improvement but probably better result than many in Brent community would have assumed

Very impressive showing from Brent alums now at Jefferson (and their parents) at the last Brent PTA meeting. The kids (7 of them?) and their parents were genuinely enthusiastic about their experiences at Jefferson, both academically and socially. I think 17 or 18 from last year's Brent 5th grade class are there now. I just wish more Brent families had been in attendance to hear the kids and their parents talk. And it seemed like the leveled homerooms which went to their four core classes together and mixed electives was a good way to straddle the divide in preparation for kids entering without completely walling kids off.