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Anonymous wrote:It’s going to be mostly wealthy families who do club sports in high school, for those who do sports. There will be some sports but it’s not going to be a huge focal point. Friends will hang out in the neighborhood because it’s a neighborhoods school and will eventually function like Hardy or Deal. Community will come from the feeders.

It will not be wealthy families who do club sports. They're going private.

Yep, this to a tee.

Not even alot of just UMC families, let alone wealthy, if MA is a title 1 school. There is a significant cohort of very poor families. Nothing wrong with being poor but it presents with a lot more challenges and sports and AP is not the top priority for leadership.

If you don’t believe above, then you have not been paying attention to the trend in DCPS.

The unfortunate part is that they could have created a school that was attractive to families of all socioeconomic tiers, like JR, but Macarthur will not attract kids who can afford to pay for or test into a different school option. I assume people in the affected neighborhoods will target Walls, Latin, other charters, and privates. No one in my neighborhood is planning on Macarthur.

You could not be more wrong. We certainly can pay for private and we are IB for Jackson Reed too. But we’ve picked MacArthur. Go visit MacArthur before you put it down. Engaged and committed teachers, a dynamic principle, and a very nice building. If you want a public high school where your kid will be seen and known, and can get involved in starting up clubs and leading, then MacArthur is a great choice.

Sorry but you are an outlier. Majority of kids and families in this group are not choosing MA.

If you want seen and heard and easily start up and lead any club, go to DCI which BTW also has an extensive curriculum offerings and sports. There is a cohort of families WOTP who send their kids there. These things are not mutually exclusive of one or the other.

These negative posts are so odd. First of all, seems like PP has never been to Macarthur and doesn’t have a kid there.Second, poster purports to speak for the phantom “majority” of people in this group and elsewhere. Finally, DCI is NOT new where you can be a founder and has a very specific feeder pattern and curriculum that make the school not a real option for most people. (DCI also has a similar demo to Macarthur so if the goal is to get away from a substantial number of Black and brown kids as I suspect is the case for some of you then DCI isn’t the move). I’ve also had friends who pulled their kids OUT of DCI because of the chaos and questionable academics—esp the Yu Ying families. Same with Latin’s HS in terms of getting in for HS. It is also NOT new with opportunities for leadership etc. the way Mac has. And Walls? Who here can plan on attending Walls with their limited admissions. PP stop grasping at straws just to put down a school you clearly know nothing about! We are pleased with the school. The Title I status by the way means the school will receive even more funding and support and be well staffed (see JR’s teacher CUTS under new budget) and smart parents know how to make that work for their kids. Also the Title I status won’t last forever so these added resources are just what the school needs in the early years so that admin aren’t spread thin while establishing a new school.

We are OOB and kid has an hour commute, using two buses, so transport certainly hasn’t been a picnic. However teachers and admin are excellent caliber. Kid is challenged and learning. Kids start clubs based on interests and there’s great support all around. Yes there are some rough and tacky kids with issues at home or in their respective communities and there have been fights. The admin has dealt with all of this quite well and if your kid isn’t in it, they aren’t in it. I’m told there are fights at JR and rough kids there too. If Walls is an option for you, go there (I say this ever having toured or visited Walls and without having anyone close to me with kids there). But otherwise I’d say Macarthur is the way to go if you can get in. Also the closed campus means less room for mischief unlike the open campus/roam free at lunch situation at JR. Macarthur is a small school where all teachers know your kid and it is great.

And for those of you coming from private DCPS has a TON of opportunities as far as colleges and extracurricular activities. Again smart parents know how to make this work for their kids and get a leg up in college admissions.

You sound like a hypocrite because you have never been to DCI and obviously don't have a kid there. Just because DCI is not new does not mean that a kid can’t be a founder of a club or start a club. They absolutely can and the school encourages and welcomes new clubs. The school is also large enough that new clubs can also draw in enough kids to not only participate but also help run it. Families can get in on the French or Chinese track. I will grant you it is much harder to get in then MA but not impossible.

Secondly, DCI is not similar to MA demographics. DCI is not a title 1 school, they have significantly less at risk kids. DCI is also not majority black.

The data speaks for itself. Wealthy families are not choosing MA and why there is such a large OOB at risk group putting MA in title 1 status. You are delusional if you think lots of wealthy families who can afford private are choosing a new high school which is not only title 1 but very far away, with an unproven track record with limited academics, sports, and club offerings.

Lastly, yes you get some more money for title 1 but it is very far from enough of what you need with resources to support all the at risk kids.

Hopefully this means MA can be the new defacto HS for all the W6 families that are shut out of Latin and don't want to go to BASIS.

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Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going to be mostly wealthy families who do club sports in high school, for those who do sports. There will be some sports but it’s not going to be a huge focal point. Friends will hang out in the neighborhood because it’s a neighborhoods school and will eventually function like Hardy or Deal. Community will come from the feeders.

It will not be wealthy families who do club sports. They're going private.

Yep, this to a tee.

Not even alot of just UMC families, let alone wealthy, if MA is a title 1 school. There is a significant cohort of very poor families. Nothing wrong with being poor but it presents with a lot more challenges and sports and AP is not the top priority for leadership.

If you don’t believe above, then you have not been paying attention to the trend in DCPS.

The unfortunate part is that they could have created a school that was attractive to families of all socioeconomic tiers, like JR, but Macarthur will not attract kids who can afford to pay for or test into a different school option. I assume people in the affected neighborhoods will target Walls, Latin, other charters, and privates. No one in my neighborhood is planning on Macarthur.

You could not be more wrong. We certainly can pay for private and we are IB for Jackson Reed too. But we’ve picked MacArthur. Go visit MacArthur before you put it down. Engaged and committed teachers, a dynamic principle, and a very nice building. If you want a public high school where your kid will be seen and known, and can get involved in starting up clubs and leading, then MacArthur is a great choice.

Sorry but you are an outlier. Majority of kids and families in this group are not choosing MA.

If you want seen and heard and easily start up and lead any club, go to DCI which BTW also has an extensive curriculum offerings and sports. There is a cohort of families WOTP who send their kids there. These things are not mutually exclusive of one or the other.

These negative posts are so odd. First of all, seems like PP has never been to Macarthur and doesn’t have a kid there.Second, poster purports to speak for the phantom “majority” of people in this group and elsewhere. Finally, DCI is NOT new where you can be a founder and has a very specific feeder pattern and curriculum that make the school not a real option for most people. (DCI also has a similar demo to Macarthur so if the goal is to get away from a substantial number of Black and brown kids as I suspect is the case for some of you then DCI isn’t the move). I’ve also had friends who pulled their kids OUT of DCI because of the chaos and questionable academics—esp the Yu Ying families. Same with Latin’s HS in terms of getting in for HS. It is also NOT new with opportunities for leadership etc. the way Mac has. And Walls? Who here can plan on attending Walls with their limited admissions. PP stop grasping at straws just to put down a school you clearly know nothing about! We are pleased with the school. The Title I status by the way means the school will receive even more funding and support and be well staffed (see JR’s teacher CUTS under new budget) and smart parents know how to make that work for their kids. Also the Title I status won’t last forever so these added resources are just what the school needs in the early years so that admin aren’t spread thin while establishing a new school.

We are OOB and kid has an hour commute, using two buses, so transport certainly hasn’t been a picnic. However teachers and admin are excellent caliber. Kid is challenged and learning. Kids start clubs based on interests and there’s great support all around. Yes there are some rough and tacky kids with issues at home or in their respective communities and there have been fights. The admin has dealt with all of this quite well and if your kid isn’t in it, they aren’t in it. I’m told there are fights at JR and rough kids there too. If Walls is an option for you, go there (I say this ever having toured or visited Walls and without having anyone close to me with kids there). But otherwise I’d say Macarthur is the way to go if you can get in. Also the closed campus means less room for mischief unlike the open campus/roam free at lunch situation at JR. Macarthur is a small school where all teachers know your kid and it is great.

And for those of you coming from private DCPS has a TON of opportunities as far as colleges and extracurricular activities. Again smart parents know how to make this work for their kids and get a leg up in college admissions.

You sound like a hypocrite because you have never been to DCI and obviously don't have a kid there. Just because DCI is not new does not mean that a kid can’t be a founder of a club or start a club. They absolutely can and the school encourages and welcomes new clubs. The school is also large enough that new clubs can also draw in enough kids to not only participate but also help run it. Families can get in on the French or Chinese track. I will grant you it is much harder to get in then MA but not impossible.

Secondly, DCI is not similar to MA demographics. DCI is not a title 1 school, they have significantly less at risk kids. DCI is also not majority black.

The data speaks for itself. Wealthy families are not choosing MA and why there is such a large OOB at risk group putting MA in title 1 status. You are delusional if you think lots of wealthy families who can afford private are choosing a new high school which is not only title 1 but very far away, with an unproven track record with limited academics, sports, and club offerings.

Lastly, yes you get some more money for title 1 but it is very far from enough of what you need with resources to support all the at risk kids.

Hopefully this means MA can be the new defacto HS for all the W6 families that are shut out of Latin and don't want to go to BASIS.

Brutal commute from the Hill to a school with no track record in a hard-to-acccess location.

Hard pass.

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Hardy is not Title 1.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going to be mostly wealthy families who do club sports in high school, for those who do sports. There will be some sports but it’s not going to be a huge focal point. Friends will hang out in the neighborhood because it’s a neighborhoods school and will eventually function like Hardy or Deal. Community will come from the feeders.

It will not be wealthy families who do club sports. They're going private.

Yep, this to a tee.

Not even alot of just UMC families, let alone wealthy, if MA is a title 1 school. There is a significant cohort of very poor families. Nothing wrong with being poor but it presents with a lot more challenges and sports and AP is not the top priority for leadership.

If you don’t believe above, then you have not been paying attention to the trend in DCPS.

The unfortunate part is that they could have created a school that was attractive to families of all socioeconomic tiers, like JR, but Macarthur will not attract kids who can afford to pay for or test into a different school option. I assume people in the affected neighborhoods will target Walls, Latin, other charters, and privates. No one in my neighborhood is planning on Macarthur.

You could not be more wrong. We certainly can pay for private and we are IB for Jackson Reed too. But we’ve picked MacArthur. Go visit MacArthur before you put it down. Engaged and committed teachers, a dynamic principle, and a very nice building. If you want a public high school where your kid will be seen and known, and can get involved in starting up clubs and leading, then MacArthur is a great choice.

Sorry but you are an outlier. Majority of kids and families in this group are not choosing MA.

If you want seen and heard and easily start up and lead any club, go to DCI which BTW also has an extensive curriculum offerings and sports. There is a cohort of families WOTP who send their kids there. These things are not mutually exclusive of one or the other.

These negative posts are so odd. First of all, seems like PP has never been to Macarthur and doesn’t have a kid there.Second, poster purports to speak for the phantom “majority” of people in this group and elsewhere. Finally, DCI is NOT new where you can be a founder and has a very specific feeder pattern and curriculum that make the school not a real option for most people. (DCI also has a similar demo to Macarthur so if the goal is to get away from a substantial number of Black and brown kids as I suspect is the case for some of you then DCI isn’t the move). I’ve also had friends who pulled their kids OUT of DCI because of the chaos and questionable academics—esp the Yu Ying families. Same with Latin’s HS in terms of getting in for HS. It is also NOT new with opportunities for leadership etc. the way Mac has. And Walls? Who here can plan on attending Walls with their limited admissions. PP stop grasping at straws just to put down a school you clearly know nothing about! We are pleased with the school. The Title I status by the way means the school will receive even more funding and support and be well staffed (see JR’s teacher CUTS under new budget) and smart parents know how to make that work for their kids. Also the Title I status won’t last forever so these added resources are just what the school needs in the early years so that admin aren’t spread thin while establishing a new school.

We are OOB and kid has an hour commute, using two buses, so transport certainly hasn’t been a picnic. However teachers and admin are excellent caliber. Kid is challenged and learning. Kids start clubs based on interests and there’s great support all around. Yes there are some rough and tacky kids with issues at home or in their respective communities and there have been fights. The admin has dealt with all of this quite well and if your kid isn’t in it, they aren’t in it. I’m told there are fights at JR and rough kids there too. If Walls is an option for you, go there (I say this ever having toured or visited Walls and without having anyone close to me with kids there). But otherwise I’d say Macarthur is the way to go if you can get in. Also the closed campus means less room for mischief unlike the open campus/roam free at lunch situation at JR. Macarthur is a small school where all teachers know your kid and it is great.

And for those of you coming from private DCPS has a TON of opportunities as far as colleges and extracurricular activities. Again smart parents know how to make this work for their kids and get a leg up in college admissions.

You sound like a hypocrite because you have never been to DCI and obviously don't have a kid there. Just because DCI is not new does not mean that a kid can’t be a founder of a club or start a club. They absolutely can and the school encourages and welcomes new clubs. The school is also large enough that new clubs can also draw in enough kids to not only participate but also help run it. Families can get in on the French or Chinese track. I will grant you it is much harder to get in then MA but not impossible.

Secondly, DCI is not similar to MA demographics. DCI is not a title 1 school, they have significantly less at risk kids. DCI is also not majority black.

The data speaks for itself. Wealthy families are not choosing MA and why there is such a large OOB at risk group putting MA in title 1 status. You are delusional if you think lots of wealthy families who can afford private are choosing a new high school which is not only title 1 but very far away, with an unproven track record with limited academics, sports, and club offerings.

Lastly, yes you get some more money for title 1 but it is very far from enough of what you need with resources to support all the at risk kids.

Hopefully this means MA can be the new defacto HS for all the W6 families that are shut out of Latin and don't want to go to BASIS.

Brutal commute from the Hill to a school with no track record in a hard-to-acccess location.

Hard pass.

THIS.

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Hardy is not Title I.

Your argument makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Hardy is not Title I.

Your argument makes no sense.

Hardy is 12% at risk.

They are way below the threshold for Title I.

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Hardy is not Title I.

Your argument makes no sense.

Hardy is 12% at risk.

They are way below the threshold for Title I.

And 41-42% at risk is a significant amount.

That is almost 4 times the amount of at risk kids than Hardy

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Did you really think Hardy was title 1??? It’s so far from Title 1 that if you think that’s a nice mix of kids then… you are not looking for a T1, to put it mildly.

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Anonymous wrote:Re Title 1.
Hardy is title 1. Have you seen the field and line for entry in the am. It’s a real wonderful mix of girls with Stanley cups and Lulu lemon skirts (that match uniform) and kids who come from poorer households. They’re all in it together. If a school has 38% low income kids it’s not title 1 but with 41% it is. Extra funding comes with it. It’s true, it’s not a ton of extra funding, but the difference between 38% and 41% to get extra funding is great. And a small school like Hardy, which feeds to MacArthur and MacArthur will also be small, 41% is not Huge in absolute numbers. It is a terrific environment for kids who go there. Doesn’t need to be rich families who would otherwise go to private school. It just needs to be nice families who care about their kids and society.

Did you really think Hardy was title 1??? It’s so far from Title 1 that if you think that’s a nice mix of kids then… you are not looking for a T1, to put it mildly.

Hardy is a mix of middle class minorities and upper class locals.

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Hardy is very diverse on most counts, including economics. It has kids from top to bottom across the economic.

It is a great mix of kids. But it is not Title 1.

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Please pay attention to your children, there are in drugs, kids , drunk in school and vaping in the bathrooms.What happened with homework in papers ; teachers ere lazy and for homework they using the phone all the time at school and after school bthey have to use for homework. They need better to stop the use of electronics is terrible for their mental health..they

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Macarthur does not collect cell phones during the day?

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unfortunately they do not collect cell phones. yes there are kids who vape. yes there are kids who do drugs. and yes I’ve heard of a girl who is perpetually drunk at school. Is this unique to Macarthur? I don’t think so. The school has a number of excellent qualities aside from issues. Obviously if your kid can’t navigate an environment where teens vape amd may drink and/or engage in drugs outside of school, Macarthur isn’t the place for you.

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Anonymous wrote:unfortunately they do not collect cell phones. yes there are kids who vape. yes there are kids who do drugs. and yes I’ve heard of a girl who is perpetually drunk at school. Is this unique to Macarthur? I don’t think so. The school has a number of excellent qualities aside from issues. Obviously if your kid can’t navigate an environment where teens vape amd may drink and/or engage in drugs outside of school, Macarthur isn’t the place for you.

Sure every school has the above. But the key is how prevalent it is, how and if it’s allowed/and tolerated in the building and if there are consequences. Same thing with phones and screens and over-reliance on it as a teaching or homework tool vs traditional paper and books.

Sounds like a lot of these things are not happening outside of school but inside from the PP. If so then there should be steps and enforcement taken to prevent it and lock it down.