Last year's Third Grade at Janney. 30 kids in a class = only 53% proficient in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Not quite sure buying a 1.4M home inbounds for Janney qualifies as taking part in a resurgence of DCPS...

Hahahahaha. Touche, PP.

Was thinking the same thing... We bought IB for Janney but I wouldn't claim such idealistic motives. If I wanted to be part of a resurgence, I would have bought IB for an up-and-coming EOTP school.

As for the scores, I wouldn't let one grade's results in one year influence my judgment of the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

Considering that Lafayette had the same issue, I have to think it's not the class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Please sell and move before our kids end up being classmates so I don't have to pretend to be able to tolerate someone as obnoxious as you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if individual student scores will be mailed home?

Yes - early September. They will come from the school your child attended last spring.

[Anonymous]

Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.

I know a lot of parents who were not happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

And Janney parents have only themselves to blame for that.

and much more specifically, we can point to self-serving education activist Matt Frumin, ANC commissioner, boundary committee member and AU park property owner.

Of course, his kids are already aged out of Janney

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.

I know a lot of parents who were not happy.

I'm a new poster. My DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney. DC was thriving. I cannot care less about the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

I lived in Tenleytown which is less lame than AU Park and thought it might as well be Herndon or Germantown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

I lived in Tenleytown which is less lame than AU Park and thought it might as well be Herndon or Germantown.

And you are < 24 years old, so your opinion on this one very specific point does not matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.

I know a lot of parents who were not happy.

I'm a new poster. My DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney. DC was thriving. I cannot care less about the test.

He/she just can't take standardized tests unlike his peers elsewhere in upper NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

I lived in Tenleytown which is less lame than AU Park and thought it might as well be Herndon or Germantown.

And you are < 24 years old, so your opinion on this one very specific point does not matter.

+1. That, or otherwise impaired judgment.