Is Brent PS3 going to be yet another year with long IB waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who deems a sibling to be more worthy of their neighbor child of same age? That seems categorically biased and unfair. Inbounds kids should all have equal status. I agree with pp.

God, you are thick. The benefits of siblings attending the same school are not just to that family but also the entire school community. Except for Bronx High or Stuyvesant, maybe, I doubt there is a charter or magnet school in the country that doesn't value having siblings over non-siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who deems a sibling to be more worthy of their neighbor child of same age? That seems categorically biased and unfair. Inbounds kids should all have equal status. I agree with pp.

God, you are thick. The benefits of siblings attending the same school are not just to that family but also the entire school community. Except for Bronx High or Stuyvesant, maybe, I doubt there is a charter or magnet school in the country that doesn't value having siblings over non-siblings.

+1 People that spout of crap like that are purposefully obtuse because they want their kid in. Period. And if they have two children and the older one gets admitted, they'll be the first to yell about sibling preference. Keeping families together in one school is best for the family and the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who deems a sibling to be more worthy of their neighbor child of same age? That seems categorically biased and unfair. Inbounds kids should all have equal status. I agree with pp.

God, you are thick. The benefits of siblings attending the same school are not just to that family but also the entire school community. Except for Bronx High or Stuyvesant, maybe, I doubt there is a charter or magnet school in the country that doesn't value having siblings over non-siblings.

+1 People that spout of crap like that are purposefully obtuse because they want their kid in. Period. And if they have two children and the older one gets admitted, they'll be the first to yell about sibling preference. Keeping families together in one school is best for the family and the school.

+2. How are families with children in multiple schools supposed to juggle multiple drop-offs and pick-ups? It's only practical.

[Anonymous]

How soon will Princ Young stay at Brent? Seems its time for a bit of change as he appears to have no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How soon will Princ Young stay at Brent? Seems its time for a bit of change as he appears to have no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet.

He plays the part they want him to=renewed contracts YOY with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How soon will Princ Young stay at Brent? Seems its time for a bit of change as he appears to have no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet.

I haven't agreed with all of his decisions but "no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet" seems a bit strong, no? He's smart enough to be responsive to the school community on some things but to stay in DCPS's good graces as they're the ones deciding the budget. On the whole, Young has done well for Brent, and I'd rather stick with him than go through a principal selection process that could end up much worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How soon will Princ Young stay at Brent? Seems its time for a bit of change as he appears to have no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet.

I haven't agreed with all of his decisions but "no backbone and is merely a DCPS puppet" seems a bit strong, no? He's smart enough to be responsive to the school community on some things but to stay in DCPS's good graces as they're the ones deciding the budget. On the whole, Young has done well for Brent, and I'd rather stick with him than go through a principal selection process that could end up much worse.

Absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Could PP cite an example of this purported puppetry? AKAIK he has advocated for smaller class sizes and succeeded in adding four additional classrooms in as many years. It may be fair to criticize him on a number of grounds but acting as a puppet of Central Office seems like a gratuitous and unfounded criticism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Brent needs to revisit the idea of dropping PS3 from the ECE program. There just isn't any rationale which supports excluding dozens of IB kids until they turn 5 and can then attend K as a matter of right. Allowing the community to coalesce around a PK4 program that would be able to accommodate as many as 80 IB students seems far preferable to what has happened over the past two years.

But don't the teachers want to keep the PS3? I recall that was the reason for keeping the PS3 going last year. If the teachers are on board now with cutting it, it does seem like Brent should focus on other areas. Especially if PS3 is available elsewhere/yet close by for Brent IB families. MAabe Tyler could find spots for Brent families south of Penn Ave and Peabody would find space for those north of Penn? I don't want kids to miss out of PS3, but I agree that it doesn't seem fair for such a small percent of the IB families to get a spot.

Tyler is the biggest school on the Hill, with 200 more kids than Brent. And Tyler should make room?!!? Oh, the entitlement of rich white people knows no bounds!!

[Anonymous]

I'm not PP, but I believe Tyler is under capacity. Not sure why the outrage on that front.

[Anonymous]

Fewer then 30 percent of the Tyler population is IB. I wonder if those OOB stidents are mostly coming from Wards 7, 8 & 9, as is the case at Watkins and to a lesser extent Ludlow-Taylor. I seem to recall a spreadsheet prepared in connection with the boundary/feeder assignment process last year which detailed which schools students from each attendance zone were attending. Does anyone else recall this?

[Anonymous]

Why don't they craft attendance zones that make sense and dispense with this OOB stuff? It only makes it complicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not PP, but I believe Tyler is under capacity. Not sure why the outrage on that front.

It's not under capacity. It's bursting at the seams.

[Anonymous]

C'mon people.

Those who have the audacity to believe their precious darling is more important than an only child, thus more deserving of a space at Brent, have amnesia.

When that very same child was 2, did they not already have separate drop offs? They managed.

Why should families with only one child be forced out due to unfair practice to attend schools potentially far flung across the city- e.g. Yu Ying, Lamb, MV, IT, etc.

All in bounds children, age 3, or age 4, should have equal status. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people.

Those who have the audacity to believe their precious darling is more important than an only child, thus more deserving of a space at Brent, have amnesia.

When that very same child was 2, did they not already have separate drop offs? They managed.

Why should families with only one child be forced out due to unfair practice to attend schools potentially far flung across the city- e.g. Yu Ying, Lamb, MV, IT, etc.

All in bounds children, age 3, or age 4, should have equal status. Period.

Ridiculous. You can't be "forced out" out of something you have no right to in the first place.