fenty kids to lafayette?

[Anonymous]

Agree w/ 13:21. It would be very nice to see that full spreadsheet.

Looks like Fenty's talking out of the side of his mouth again. Thank you Mr. Education Mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree w/ 13:21. It would be very nice to see that full spreadsheet.

Looks like Fenty's talking out of the side of his mouth again. Thank you Mr. Education Mayor.

Yes, he should have stayed in private schools ! Damn if you do damn if you don't!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree w/ 13:21. It would be very nice to see that full spreadsheet.

Looks like Fenty's talking out of the side of his mouth again. Thank you Mr. Education Mayor.

Yes, he should have stayed in private schools ! Damn if you do damn if you don't!

Are you this obtuse deliberately or do you come by it naturally? The point is, that as a PP posted (08/11/2009 22:25) the Mayor has one set of rules for his own precious children, and another set of rules for the rest of us hoi polloi. Everyone else gets to sweat it out all summer, hoping and praying for an OOB slot at a better school which is never going to open up. But for the Fentys?

"In April after multiple promises to post the OOB lottery results (never happened), DCPS sent me the spreadsheet. For 4th grade, the following status as of late April:

Eaton 0 admits, 13 on wait list
Janney 7 admits, 33 wait list
Key 0 admits, 20 wait list
Lafayette 0 admits, 15 wait list
Mann 0 admits, 17 wait list
Murch 0 admits, 19 wait list

Looks to me like the Fenty boys hopped over 15 timely applicants ahead of them on the Lafayette wait list. If I were one of those 15, and I still wanted my child at Lafayette. . .. .. ."

This is rank hypocrisy and for those of us who would hold him accountable, it stinks.

[Anonymous]

Different poster than 17:45 but we cannot be certain that he hopped over all those on the waitlist. Heck we don't even know where they are attending. Plus this list is old, alot may have happened since April. If any of these schools added fourth grade classes, in most cases those on the waitlist should be admitted and there would still be space for the Fenty boys too.

I just wouldn't be so quick to judge without up-to-date information.

[Anonymous]

14:08 Kids with no Spanish have entered Oyster in the past.

[Anonymous]

Bill Turque,education reporter, is looking for parents who tried to get a 4th grade spot at Layfayette. Email him at the Post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Turque,education reporter, is looking for parents who tried to get a 4th grade spot at Layfayette. Email him at the Post.

I would like to ask him why the mayor or anyone else for that matter is trying to break their neck to get into any DCPS? I would and I do - send my kids to a private school and wouldn't care what people thought about my person decision. Do they get a better education at Layfayette than at Simon in S.E? Don't they use the same books?


If you can, do it. Why should we comment on a personal family decision?

[Anonymous]

Lafayette added another 4th grade class (used to be 3, now 4) so I would think all the OOB kids got in, including Fenty's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bill Turque,education reporter, is looking for parents who tried to get a 4th grade spot at Layfayette. Email him at the Post.

I would like to ask him why the mayor or anyone else for that matter is trying to break their neck to get into any DCPS? I would and I do - send my kids to a private school and wouldn't care what people thought about my person decision.

Do they get a better education at Layfayette than at Simon in S.E? Don't they use the same books?

If you can, do it. Why should we comment on a personal family decision?

The overall curriculum is the same the ways of carrying it out are different. Also you have a very different population at Simon than at Lafayette and more involved parents.