Fenty's boys -- where are they going?

[Anonymous]

8:57 If there are slots, folks can apply, as PP describes. I don't care if he sends his boys to an in-boundary school or not. I just want him to experience the system from the inside out. (Even though as mayor he can't experience it like a regular parent. But still.)

[Anonymous]

if i understand correctly, Cooke has some spots open because they have a bigger space in the newly renovated building. so...perhaps his kids can go there OOB. maybe there would be too much political fracas over even him availing himself of OOB option though...

[Anonymous]

I think OOB spots are a lot easier to get at his kids' age. Don't a lot of kids at the west-of-the-park publics move to private around fourth grade?

[Anonymous]

I don't see how it would be controversial for him to enroll OOB -- unless the school was fully enrolled. Tons of working parents do it, enroll near their offices or on their commute route.

Not that many kids west of the park move to private after Grade 4!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the way the pp is wielding the phraise "title one" is making me want to vomit. on her.

Why, did you deliberately choose to enroll your child in a Title I school? Or is vomiting on people what you learned was acceptable behavior in your home environment or school? To what extent must other people validate your choices before you feel the need to assault them? Can you understand that if these are your standards of behavior that other people might not want their children exposed to you or your influence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since when do you get to pick which public school you go to? I can't. The Fenty's shouldn't be able to either. They should go to the one that they are in bounds for. Whichever that is.

Actually, you can apply to five other schools OOB and you can apply to as many charters as you'd like. That's an option that's probably politically untenable for the Fentys.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the way the pp is wielding the phraise "title one" is making me want to vomit. on her.

Why, did you deliberately choose to enroll your child in a Title I school? Or is vomiting on people what you learned was acceptable behavior in your home environment or school? To what extent must other people validate your choices before you feel the need to assault them? Can you understand that if these are your standards of behavior that other people might not want their children exposed to you or your influence?

Are you saying that you do not want your children exposed to the parents of students who attend Title 1 schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see how it would be controversial for him to enroll OOB -- unless the school was fully enrolled. Tons of working parents do it, enroll near their offices or on their commute route.

Not that many kids west of the park move to private after Grade 4!

Sure they do. A very large percentage of families west of the park are perfectly happy with their neighborhood in-bounds schools all the way through elementary: Hyde, Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann, Murch, etc. It's at the middle school level where many of them start going private. Sure, a few stick it out through either Deal or Hardy and then go on to Walls or Wilson. For the most part however, there's a great migration out of DCPS that takes place west of the park and it gets larger with each successive year. Ergo, there are more 4th grade slots OOB west of the park than there are, say, K slots. In other words, the Fentys have a better chance of getting into Lafayette OOB for 4th than they would for K.

Maybe the reason for the radio silence on the Fentys in DCPS is a little behind-the-scenes analysis of which west of the park schools have the most plausible waitlists for this year.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the way the pp is wielding the phraise "title one" is making me want to vomit. on her.

Why, did you deliberately choose to enroll your child in a Title I school? Or is vomiting on people what you learned was acceptable behavior in your home environment or school? To what extent must other people validate your choices before you feel the need to assault them? Can you understand that if these are your standards of behavior that other people might not want their children exposed to you or your influence?

Are you saying that you do not want your children exposed to the parents of students who attend Title 1 schools?

I said that the PP should not be surprised that other parents do not want their children exposed to her or her influence, given that her explicitly stated idea of acceptable behavior includes vomiting on people with whom she was previously having a civil (if heated) discussion.

[Anonymous]

pp, get a grip.

let's play your game for a minute.

did that poster say explicitly and directly that was going to vomit on you? that she intended to vomit on you? give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

12:32 There has always been a migration, I'm not clear on the percentage. I would not put the number higher than 15% tops across the board but that's a total guestimate based on my circle of friends at various private middle schools. Do you see it as higher? Both Hardy and Deal are in good shape these days, too, which keeps the numbers lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: A very large percentage of families west of the park are perfectly happy with their neighborhood in-bounds schools all the way through elementary: Hyde, Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann, Murch, etc. It's at the middle school level where many of them start going private.

I am a parent at one of the schools you mention and I have a child in the 3rd grade. With the economy the way it is and with Deal's makeover, more parents than in the past are opting to stay in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

let's play your game for a minute.

Yes, "my" game is much more civilized. It's called point/retort or point/counterpoint. There is no point/vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12:32 There has always been a migration, I'm not clear on the percentage. I would not put the number higher than 15% tops across the board but that's a total guestimate based on my circle of friends at various private middle schools. Do you see it as higher? Both Hardy and Deal are in good shape these days, too, which keeps the numbers lower.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were significantly higher than 15%, say 20-25%, but in any case that's orthogonal. The point is that the Fentys have a better shot OOB at a west of the park school in 4th than they would in K.

[Anonymous]

Well since we are talking about twins, it might be tangential.