What kind of school will Van Ness Elementary end up being? More like Brent, Maury, or Ludlow-Taylor?

[Anonymous]

Some racism to go with your classism?

[Anonymous]

My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

Van Ness intentionally structured in this direction by opening only with ECE, and then adding grades. That way there's no way older siblings could attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

You can tell by talking to the parents, and by finding out where they live.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

You can tell by talking to the parents, and by finding out where they live.

This thread gets more awful by the day. I think you mean to say "looking at the parents" and "checking melanin."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

You can tell by talking to the parents, and by finding out where they live.

This thread gets more awful by the day. I think you mean to say "looking at the parents" and "checking melanin."

???

You can simply ask, what do you do for a living?

I'm not saying that's what I would do, but some posters need to manage their paranoia better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

Half of PK3 is composed of Brent refugees. Come back to me once your kid is past K

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

You can tell by talking to the parents, and by finding out where they live.

This thread gets more awful by the day. I think you mean to say "looking at the parents" and "checking melanin."

Both pp's are wrong. Trolls have taken over this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

how do you know?

You can tell by talking to the parents, and by finding out where they live.

This thread gets more awful by the day. I think you mean to say "looking at the parents" and "checking melanin."

Both pp's are wrong. Trolls have taken over this thread.

Considering the thread was started by a troll, it didn't have far to go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My take on this is that Van Ness will eventually be performing on the same level as Brent Elementary. They have a wonderful staff and a great principal. The parents are very involved with the school, and it seems like most families feel lucky that they are part of setting the culture for the school. My child is in PK3 this year, and at least 90% of kids in the class are form upper-middle class families.

Half of PK3 is composed of Brent refugees. Come back to me once your kid is past K

Not true. The incoming PK3 class (starting this week), to my knowledge, is full from IB or nearly so. I don't know anyone IB for Brent who didn't get into Brent PK3 but got into van ness for PK3 this year. Pretty sure no one is in that boat this year.

[Anonymous]

PK4 is all Brent IB kids, not PK3. As much as people say they love Van Ness, I guarantee they will move their kids back to Brent for K despite Brent not having a strong K program as it's still more established than Van Ness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PK4 is all Brent IB kids, not PK3. As much as people say they love Van Ness, I guarantee they will move their kids back to Brent for K despite Brent not having a strong K program as it's still more established than Van Ness.

PK3 and PK4 were both allegedly Brent overflow last year too

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PK4 is all Brent IB kids, not PK3. As much as people say they love Van Ness, I guarantee they will move their kids back to Brent for K despite Brent not having a strong K program as it's still more established than Van Ness.

PK3 and PK4 were both allegedly Brent overflow last year too

Yes but with the PK3 class starting this week, Van Ness has moved past that. It should be mostly IB for new classes going forward with some OOB students who might be from anywhere. Any PK3 kid IB for Brent this year who had a lottery draw good enough to get into Van Ness OOB would have also gotten into Brent, so the overlap is none.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PK4 is all Brent IB kids, not PK3. As much as people say they love Van Ness, I guarantee they will move their kids back to Brent for K despite Brent not having a strong K program as it's still more established than Van Ness.

PK3 and PK4 were both allegedly Brent overflow last year too

Yes but with the PK3 class starting this week, Van Ness has moved past that. It should be mostly IB for new classes going forward with some OOB students who might be from anywhere. Any PK3 kid IB for Brent this year who had a lottery draw good enough to get into Van Ness OOB would have also gotten into Brent, so the overlap is none.

PK4 had a few Brent kids last year, but the grade was not an "overflow". I think all (or nearly all) of my child's class returned for K this year.