Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls

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Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

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Would this even be a headline if Weedon was black or Hispanic?

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Anonymous wrote:“Christine Clapp, whose two children attend Maury Elementary and are years away from high school, attended a theory of knowledge class at Eastern last year, observing students discuss how historians create knowledge and humans learn to process that knowledge as fact.

The invitation was part of Principal Sah Brown’s plan to introduce residents to Eastern.

Clapp, who is white, came away impressed. After the visit, it was decided.

Her children would attend Eastern.

“I want my kids to know they are no better than any other kids from any other background and to pull them out of their feeder school because it’s predominantly black school, that sends the wrong message,” Clapp said.”

One Tok class is not enough to make me choose Eastern. ToK is taught at every IB school, like for instance, DCI.

I wonder what this parent would think of my kids, who aren’t white and choose charter. I’m not sending my kids to E-H or Eastern.

I think the point is that the Eastern class showed her that it's good enough for her kids, not that it's uniquely good.

I think her statements are specifically about her and her family's values. I admire her efforts - not sure I will make the same decisions, but very glad to have parents like her around.

Hmm I do not care for people who send the message that those of us with high academic standards are racists.

I see that you're not making an effort to understand.

DP. If we were in Appalachia and the poor performing kids were mostly white, would it still be racist to not want a kid to attend that school?

If not, why is it about race, rather than academic performance, here.

Plenty of people do and would send their kids to schools with a decent portion of minority students when those students achieve at or above grade level.

Racism and classism are two different but not wholly independent things.

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Anonymous wrote:“Christine Clapp, whose two children attend Maury Elementary and are years away from high school, attended a theory of knowledge class at Eastern last year, observing students discuss how historians create knowledge and humans learn to process that knowledge as fact.

The invitation was part of Principal Sah Brown’s plan to introduce residents to Eastern.

Clapp, who is white, came away impressed. After the visit, it was decided.

Her children would attend Eastern.

“I want my kids to know they are no better than any other kids from any other background and to pull them out of their feeder school because it’s predominantly black school, that sends the wrong message,” Clapp said.”

One Tok class is not enough to make me choose Eastern. ToK is taught at every IB school, like for instance, DCI.

I wonder what this parent would think of my kids, who aren’t white and choose charter. I’m not sending my kids to E-H or Eastern.

I think the point is that the Eastern class showed her that it's good enough for her kids, not that it's uniquely good.

I think her statements are specifically about her and her family's values. I admire her efforts - not sure I will make the same decisions, but very glad to have parents like her around.

Hmm I do not care for people who send the message that those of us with high academic standards are racists.

I see that you're not making an effort to understand.

DP. If we were in Appalachia and the poor performing kids were mostly white, would it still be racist to not want a kid to attend that school?

If not, why is it about race, rather than academic performance, here.

Plenty of people do and would send their kids to schools with a decent portion of minority students when those students achieve at or above grade level.

Racism and classism are two different but not wholly independent things.

UMC blacks also avoid DCPS. Are they also racist?

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Anonymous wrote:She wants to go to Eastern: Let her go there.

It read to me like she wasn’t sure — because she ants a more rigorous experience than she had at EH.

I hate that the Weedons cooperated and did this article with the Post before making a decision.

In the story he is quoted about not wanting to put too much on his 14-year’s shoulders, and yet they do this article putting their “difficult” decision on display for all to see.

Finally, there are other academically rigorous applications schools that are majority black she could have applied to, which happen to be closer to home — Banneker?

Or McKinley. That’s totally doable from the Hill.

Maybe she did but did not match.

My question for Joe Weedon has always been, what if my kids aren't as smart? It is great that Eliot-Hine worked out for them (sort of) but my DC has dyslexia and is not as motivated so I am not sure I can take the chance.

She didn’t match because she/they ranked SWW highest. That’s how the HS process works.

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Anonymous wrote:“While the Weedons have seen the social and community benefits that come with attending their neighborhood middle school, they have also encountered the challenges. Most prominently: high turnover among teachers and administrators, which leads to an unstable academic environment. His daughter says she has become an expert card player because of all the free time she has had with substitute teachers.”

Amazing. I am hopeful that my children will learn more than cards in middle school.

This was the part that stuck out to me as well. I value public schools and would prefer to send our kids to one.... but not so they can learn to play cards, which is why we chose a charter school (Latin). We would have applied to private schools if the charter lottery hadn’t worked out, rather than send our children to Eliot Hine.

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Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

How did this article even make the front page, connections, connections and to cover his ass

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Anonymous wrote:“Christine Clapp, whose two children attend Maury Elementary and are years away from high school, attended a theory of knowledge class at Eastern last year, observing students discuss how historians create knowledge and humans learn to process that knowledge as fact.

The invitation was part of Principal Sah Brown’s plan to introduce residents to Eastern.

Clapp, who is white, came away impressed. After the visit, it was decided.

Her children would attend Eastern.

“I want my kids to know they are no better than any other kids from any other background and to pull them out of their feeder school because it’s predominantly black school, that sends the wrong message,” Clapp said.”

One Tok class is not enough to make me choose Eastern. ToK is taught at every IB school, like for instance, DCI.

I wonder what this parent would think of my kids, who aren’t white and choose charter. I’m not sending my kids to E-H or Eastern.

I think the point is that the Eastern class showed her that it's good enough for her kids, not that it's uniquely good.

I think her statements are specifically about her and her family's values. I admire her efforts - not sure I will make the same decisions, but very glad to have parents like her around.

Hmm I do not care for people who send the message that those of us with high academic standards are racists.

I see that you're not making an effort to understand.

DP. If we were in Appalachia and the poor performing kids were mostly white, would it still be racist to not want a kid to attend that school?

If not, why is it about race, rather than academic performance, here.

Plenty of people do and would send their kids to schools with a decent portion of minority students when those students achieve at or above grade level.

Racism and classism are two different but not wholly independent things.

Or, people don't want to send their kids to failing schools with failing students, and race has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

It’s really odd to me that you and PP are so certain of what someone else is thinking. Are you psychic? Or do you just assume because you like to think that people who disagree with you are hypocrites?

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Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

It’s really odd to me that you and PP are so certain of what someone else is thinking. Are you psychic? Or do you just assume because you like to think that people who disagree with you are hypocrites?

It really doesn't matter what the thinking is. If you agonize over the decision or just say "of course I'm sending my kid to the more rigorous school" you're no different from the parents you've explicitly criticized and called a racist for doing the exact same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Difficult decision, my ass. It's a lock she'll go to Walls and the performative hand-wringing is for cover.

+1000. There is no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite. No way will he sacrifice his own kid on the altar of political correctness.

It’s really odd to me that you and PP are so certain of what someone else is thinking. Are you psychic? Or do you just assume because you like to think that people who disagree with you are hypocrites?

He certainly assumed he knew the thinking of other parents who didn't send their kids to Eastern. Maybe he's a psychic.

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It's not Weedon that failed, it's DCPS. Article fails to mention that he worked for a non-profit focused on Eastern before running for school board. He told everyone his plan was to have his daughter attend Eastern. You could not find anyone more dedicated to the cause.

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I work in an office with several African American PG county parents who also hate their own neighborhood schools and won't send their kids to them if they can help it. We have regular conversations about the dilemma of sending the kids to the underperforming local school vs trying to foot the bill for private school or affording to save to move to a more expensive area with better performing schools. When discussing EH and Eastern as my son's inbounds schools, their response? You are NOT sending your kid to those schools, no way. Also, interestingly, they want their kids to also have diversity, as in to not be in predominantly African American schools, stating their kids have to learn to work and function with diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in an office with several African American PG county parents who also hate their own neighborhood schools and won't send their kids to them if they can help it. We have regular conversations about the dilemma of sending the kids to the underperforming local school vs trying to foot the bill for private school or affording to save to move to a more expensive area with better performing schools. When discussing EH and Eastern as my son's inbounds schools, their response? You are NOT sending your kid to those schools, no way. Also, interestingly, they want their kids to also have diversity, as in to not be in predominantly African American schools, stating their kids have to learn to work and function with diversity.

This post is incoherent. Also, opinions of PG county parents should have little relationship to your decision on where to educate your child (unless you are moving to PG county).

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Anonymous wrote:I work in an office with several African American PG county parents who also hate their own neighborhood schools and won't send their kids to them if they can help it. We have regular conversations about the dilemma of sending the kids to the underperforming local school vs trying to foot the bill for private school or affording to save to move to a more expensive area with better performing schools. When discussing EH and Eastern as my son's inbounds schools, their response? You are NOT sending your kid to those schools, no way. Also, interestingly, they want their kids to also have diversity, as in to not be in predominantly African American schools, stating their kids have to learn to work and function with diversity.

This post is incoherent. Also, opinions of PG county parents should have little relationship to your decision on where to educate your child (unless you are moving to PG county).

PP's colleagues are likely familiar with D.C. schools, even if they now live in PG. there was nothing incoherent about that post.