If you are at a "HRCS" or "JKLM", would you/will you send your child to Wilson

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Anonymous wrote:It took me a minute to find an old boundary map, but I was correct...SW was zoned out of Wilson. I believe SW was the only area that contained low income housing in the previous Wilson boundary (I will double check that when I get a minute). For better or worse (depending on your perspective), those low SES children no longer have access Wilson.

Not true. There is a swath of NW that has a good amount of low income housing that was zoned out. I live in Adams Morgan by a bunch of low income housing buildings and we were all zoned out.

Buildings were not "zoned out", the system became a feeder system. If that building wasn't feeding to Deal, Hardy, or Adams, then yes it was directed to a high school by their new elementary-middle-high feeder system. Hate when people don't state the fact and make it seem like a bulding was zoned out when in fact they made the system predictable based on middle school (like 99% of the country does).

If your inboundary school was Wilson before and now it is Cardozo, you were zoned out of Wilson.

No your feeder path changed. Tomato tomahto.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

They are going to school with their neighbors. They are also going to school with their DC neighbors that came OOB from Hardy. What's wrong with that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

They are going to school with their neighbors. They are also going to school with their DC neighbors that came OOB from Hardy. What's wrong with that?

PP here. I doubt that the OOB students from Hardy were ever the problem. Parents who take the initiative to get their kids into a better school OOB clearly care about their education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

They are going to school with their neighbors. They are also going to school with their DC neighbors that came OOB from Hardy. What's wrong with that?

PP here. I doubt that the OOB students from Hardy were ever the problem. Parents who take the initiative to get their kids into a better school OOB clearly care about their education.

Then you obviously don't follow he Hardy threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

They are going to school with their neighbors. They are also going to school with their DC neighbors that came OOB from Hardy. What's wrong with that?

PP here. I doubt that the OOB students from Hardy were ever the problem. Parents who take the initiative to get their kids into a better school OOB clearly care about their education.

Then you obviously don't follow he Hardy threads.

No, I don't. I'm IB for Deal, and I generally don't spend too much time on the schools forum.

[Anonymous]

Well yeah some of your fellow Deal parents as well as Hardy feeder parents are EXTREMELY rough, racist, and rude towards OOB Hardy kids. It's quite sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably would not if my kids were old enough today. But they have a while until high school age and I'm hoping I'm sold on the school by then.

This. We are in ES now. Deal looks good as of today. We are hoping Wilson improves by the time we get there. I am optimistic that it will. I think some of Wilson's improvement is inevitable, but some of it depends on progress at Hardy (IB buy in), which is more of a wild card.

Hardy is not a wild card for Wilson. The kids coming out of Hardy are fine. According to my SIL who graduated from Wilson, most of the problems stemmed from the kids who came from SW and were zoned for Wilson. If I am not mistaken, SW was cut out of Wilson with the new boundary change. I will recheck this, but correct me if I am wrong.

You are correct. What you're missing is the fact that Hardy is still sending brown kids to Wilson. When these posters are saying "We are waiting on Wilson to improve", they really mean we are waiting for it to start looking more like WOTP demographics. White student performance is beyond excellent at Wilson. These people want it to be less than 30% black so they can start feeling comfortable sending their kid there. You'll see it all over the threads, referring to the "thugs" at Wilson. Watch, it'll start in 5,4,3,2____

Besides the fact that I don't see anything wrong with wanting a school to reflect the demographics of its neighborhood, "less than 30% black" would still not represent the demographics of Upper NW. So if that's what people are hoping for, they are not aiming to exclude all minority students. Who can blame anyone for wanting their kids to go to school with the kids of their neighbors, and with a majority of peers from similar social backgrounds and of similar academic abilities? It doesn't make them racists, as you insinuate. The polarization between "Yale and Jail" that PPs have mentioned isn't a situation that is conducive to anyone's success or comfort.

They are going to school with their neighbors. They are also going to school with their DC neighbors that came OOB from Hardy. What's wrong with that?

PP here. I doubt that the OOB students from Hardy were ever the problem. Parents who take the initiative to get their kids into a better school OOB clearly care about their education.

Then you obviously don't follow he Hardy threads.

I am a Deal parent and the Hardy threads are ridiculous. They are filled with IB parents who post their "perceptions" of the school as fact. It's very sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took me a minute to find an old boundary map, but I was correct...SW was zoned out of Wilson. I believe SW was the only area that contained low income housing in the previous Wilson boundary (I will double check that when I get a minute). For better or worse (depending on your perspective), those low SES children no longer have access Wilson.

Not true. There is a swath of NW that has a good amount of low income housing that was zoned out. I live in Adams Morgan by a bunch of low income housing buildings and we were all zoned out.

Buildings were not "zoned out", the system became a feeder system. If that building wasn't feeding to Deal, Hardy, or Adams, then yes it was directed to a high school by their new elementary-middle-high feeder system. Hate when people don't state the fact and make it seem like a bulding was zoned out when in fact they made the system predictable based on middle school (like 99% of the country does).

If your inboundary school was Wilson before and now it is Cardozo, you were zoned out of Wilson.

No your feeder path changed. Tomato tomahto.

No, my in boundary school changed. Feeder pattern for my DCPS was different.