Maury?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again it all boils down to the ratio of whites to blacks when it is time for the middle schools and high school selections. Let's be honest the neighborhood lure loses the luster when everyone reaches middle school and high school. As I said before the diversity in pre-k gives everyone comfort. But when the incoming 9th grade class due to school boundaries has Capitol Hill interacting with Benning Heights, all of sudden the moving vans are arriving.

Ah, give me a break! That's just too easy an answer to everything. If I've learned one thing as a parent in a diverse/gentrifying/urban, whatever you want to call it, DC school it's that black doesn't equal black and white doesn't equal white. It's just not that simple, as much as one or the other here try to drive that wedge into every single DCUM discussion about public schools.
(BTW, are you the poster I still need to take up on that chicken dinner at that place in Benning Hights? Danny's or something?)

[Anonymous]

I really just need to attend an open house and get a feel for the school. Part of the reason a bilingual charter has such appeal for us is we're looking for true diversity (racial, socioeconomic) without people feeling as if they "own" the school based on its proximity. I'm a SWW graduate and it was nice having classmates from all quadrants with different backgrounds.

[Anonymous]

Because of the neighborhood, I think Maury will stay diverse while the test scores go up. I live very close but not in-boundary. If I'd had a crystal ball, I would bought in boundary for Maury. I love this part of the Hill.

[Anonymous]

At the younger grades (2nd and below) Maury is incredibly diverse, racially and socioeconomically. In addition, there are more and more families from other countries, which really introduces the kids to different cultures.

[Anonymous]

I was actually going to turn in my acceptance registration when I encountered a class in the hall outside the office. They looked like perhaps third graders and the teacher was just yelling at them to get their butts in line up against the wall. Her language and behavior was disturbing to me and I left to give this school more thought.
We passed on Maury for Tyler Immersion with no regrets other than proximity of location.

[Anonymous]

I was actually going to turn in my acceptance registration when I encountered a class in the hall outside the office. They looked like perhaps third graders and the teacher was just yelling at them to get their butts in line up against the wall. Her language and behavior was disturbing to me and I left to give this school more thought.
We passed on Maury for Tyler Immersion with no regrets other than proximity of location.

yeah, teachers at tyler never yell at the kids. gimme a break! you have no idea what was going on there. was it a teacher or was it the after-care people? while i don't advocate yelling at kids, it happens. kids can make you yell. i am glad you are happy where you are. you sound too delicate for DCPS, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I was actually going to turn in my acceptance registration when I encountered a class in the hall outside the office. They looked like perhaps third graders and the teacher was just yelling at them to get their butts in line up against the wall. Her language and behavior was disturbing to me and I left to give this school more thought.
We passed on Maury for Tyler Immersion with no regrets other than proximity of location.

yeah, teachers at tyler never yell at the kids. gimme a break! you have no idea what was going on there. was it a teacher or was it the after-care people? while i don't advocate yelling at kids, it happens. kids can make you yell. i am glad you are happy where you are. you sound too delicate for DCPS, though.

Sorry. You are wrong. No child should have to endure verbal abuse at school. Delicate or not. Inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. You are wrong. No child should have to endure verbal abuse at school. Delicate or not. Inexcusable.

Totally agree on the substance. But boy am I glad my home isn't under 24 hour supervision!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I was actually going to turn in my acceptance registration when I encountered a class in the hall outside the office. They looked like perhaps third graders and the teacher was just yelling at them to get their butts in line up against the wall. Her language and behavior was disturbing to me and I left to give this school more thought.
We passed on Maury for Tyler Immersion with no regrets other than proximity of location.

yeah, teachers at tyler never yell at the kids. gimme a break! you have no idea what was going on there. was it a teacher or was it the after-care people? while i don't advocate yelling at kids, it happens. kids can make you yell. i am glad you are happy where you are. you sound too delicate for DCPS, though.

Sorry. You are wrong. No child should have to endure verbal abuse at school. Delicate or not. Inexcusable.

Funny thing: the *exact* same thing happened to me at Tyler, so we went to Watkins!

[Anonymous]

Hahahaha. Happened to me at Watkins so we went to Brent.

[Anonymous]

As a Brent parent, in my next lives I'll try Tyler Immersion, Maury and Watkins.

[Anonymous]

Maury is like Brent was in 2008. Give Maury a few years for the testing grades to be populated by the PreK program - DC CAS scores will be in the 70s.

[Anonymous]

bump

[Anonymous]

Moving to the burbs is a cautionary reference for those who might get too attached to the wonderfulness that is life with kids on the Hill. Things are going fine, and your kids are making friends, but then the reality of crappy middle schools becomes more than some vague point in the distance. Even if you manage to hang on with Latin or whatever, it's not the cozy little bubble that is imagined and expectations need to be adjusted. It sucks.

Well said, who could argue with that.

I already have my doubts about Latin, BASIS, and even the future DCI, for a kid in the lower elementary grades at Maury. Probably no room for our small fry by the time the 5th grade lottery rolls around, too far from the Hill, too many kids who can't test proficient (wait till BASIS' test scores come out this summer) let alone advanced without much MS ability grouping beyond math, and meager DC charter funding and facilities.

Why oh why can't we have one Fairfax or MoCo quality MS program in this city that our kids could attend if they could test in? I'd go for a healthy dose of affirmative action admissions for FARMs kids if we had such a 6-8 program.

[Anonymous]

Still think it's nutty--if you have a fantastic local elementary school--to move to the burbs because of concerns about middle-school. The whole idea that your kids can't make friends in middle school is completely overblown. In fact, I have known children who were grateful for the chance to reinvent themselves. And odds are that with the pace of DC demographic change accelerating, the middle school options for a child entering pre-K today will be radically different in