MacArthur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is not a thing at Macarthur. It's not.

Many of my kids peers came from JR to Macarthur and they are so much more positive about the experience and environment at Macarthur.

Lesson: don't take at face value semi-coherent posts on an anonymous message board in which most people truly don't want other people to have nice things (this message included to be fair).

[Anonymous]

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.

Do you have a kid at Hardy or are you just making judgements on the kids you see on the field in the morning? Hardy is not Title 1 but you seem to think it is by the way the kids look. You may what to think about what biases are at play here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

What don’t you believe? This happens at every school. The extent to which it happens is obviously different at every school and it may or may not affect your child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

What don’t you believe? This happens at every school. The extent to which it happens is obviously different at every school and it may or may not affect your child

dp. Every DCPS maybe. Certainly not that way at every school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

What don’t you believe? This happens at every school. The extent to which it happens is obviously different at every school and it may or may not affect your child

Oh, you have visited and see this at every school in the country? Sure, Jan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’m the poster who wrote about vaping. I did not say this was happening IN THE school. There is one girl who I’ve heard has been inebriated at school. My post did not say this is all happening in the school.

[Anonymous]

and kids aren’t perpetually on their phones. Amazing how things get twisted to be so dramatic.

[Anonymous]

Is lulu lemon supposed to be a badge of honor or something? The company that said they don’t make clothes for black people. You people are sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

You are claiming Hardy is full of drug users?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

You are claiming Hardy is full of drug users?

You are claiming that every school is full of drug users?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Every school has a perpetually drunk student and is full of vapers and drug users, with kids on their phones during class? Er, I don’t think so.

What don’t you believe? This happens at every school. The extent to which it happens is obviously different at every school and it may or may not affect your child

dp. Every DCPS maybe. Certainly not that way at every school.

Go visit the Montgomery County board. It happens at every school there too. They way they tell it, it's probably worse than DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Title 1 seems to be a dog whistle for the percentage of blacks in the school. Why does DC even track that statistic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Title 1 seems to be a dog whistle for the percentage of blacks in the school. Why does DC even track that statistic?

So, percentage of black students is actually a real statistic. Title 1 is just the number of poor students. Both are separately tracked. Black is not equal to poor.

[Anonymous]

There is a huge, disproportionate overlap between the black group and poor group in DC. When people say too much Title 1 in a DC public school, what they are actually saying is too many blacks. Why track either stat in DC? It just feeds racism.