Oyster and bancroft feed to McFarland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

MacFarland is half bilingual middle school, half regular middle school.

Your point? Oyster kids can still attend Marfarland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All - I'm convinced that MacFarland is great and will be great for our kids. It's basically a new school run by a good administrator with great staff in a new building just waiting for you. I fully expect my third grader to attend.

I've met Principal Sanders enough times to get a good sense of who and how he is. He is likable and bilingual (bilingual family too!) and has a lot of experience with longtime DC families and appreciates the community that he has and what DC needs to build here. He came out of Powell and has high school experience.

One negative is his support for UNC, but I mean, come on.

Agreed with everything you've said. Go Blue Devils

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All - I'm convinced that MacFarland is great and will be great for our kids. It's basically a new school run by a good administrator with great staff in a new building just waiting for you. I fully expect my third grader to attend.

I've met Principal Sanders enough times to get a good sense of who and how he is. He is likable and bilingual (bilingual family too!) and has a lot of experience with longtime DC families and appreciates the community that he has and what DC needs to build here. He came out of Powell and has high school experience.

One negative is his support for UNC, but I mean, come on.

Agreed with everything you've said. Go Blue Devils

What makes you convinced MAcFarland will be great. The feeders are not solid enough and don't have any signficant cohort of UMC students. the test scores? its takes decades to create a solid middle school and thats only when more UMC families commit to it. Deal and SH are both examples of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All - I'm convinced that MacFarland is great and will be great for our kids. It's basically a new school run by a good administrator with great staff in a new building just waiting for you. I fully expect my third grader to attend.

I've met Principal Sanders enough times to get a good sense of who and how he is. He is likable and bilingual (bilingual family too!) and has a lot of experience with longtime DC families and appreciates the community that he has and what DC needs to build here. He came out of Powell and has high school experience.

One negative is his support for UNC, but I mean, come on.

Agreed with everything you've said. Go Blue Devils

What makes you convinced MAcFarland will be great. The feeders are not solid enough and don't have any signficant cohort of UMC students. the test scores? its takes decades to create a solid middle school and thats only when more UMC families commit to it. Deal and SH are both examples of this.

What if, instead of focusing on what the test scores are, we look at how much the students improve each year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All - I'm convinced that MacFarland is great and will be great for our kids. It's basically a new school run by a good administrator with great staff in a new building just waiting for you. I fully expect my third grader to attend.

I've met Principal Sanders enough times to get a good sense of who and how he is. He is likable and bilingual (bilingual family too!) and has a lot of experience with longtime DC families and appreciates the community that he has and what DC needs to build here. He came out of Powell and has high school experience.

One negative is his support for UNC, but I mean, come on.

Agreed with everything you've said. Go Blue Devils

What makes you convinced MAcFarland will be great. The feeders are not solid enough and don't have any signficant cohort of UMC students. the test scores? its takes decades to create a solid middle school and thats only when more UMC families commit to it. Deal and SH are both examples of this.

Dude. This message is a commitment. There are many others. MacFarland has been open 2 years. It's ours to embrace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

DCPS does not really care that much about what one group of people say they need or want. They need to do what is best for the system. See for example how Banneker High just got the space for an expansion.

Oyster Adams feeding to McFarland is an excellent idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

What Oyster wants or needs isn't the only consideration.

If DCPS writ large is going to invest in bilingual education, which is much expensive to deliver than traditional education, then it should go through high school. And families who the city has invested in should attend that high school.

Personally given the number of bilingual elementary programs we now have I think there needs to be 2 bilingual middle schools, and one high school. And if you choose to enter the elementary your path throughout is bilingual, unless you leave for another application high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

What Oyster wants or needs isn't the only consideration.

If DCPS writ large is going to invest in bilingual education, which is much expensive to deliver than traditional education, then it should go through high school. And families who the city has invested in should attend that high school.

Personally given the number of bilingual elementary programs we now have I think there needs to be 2 bilingual middle schools, and one high school. And if you choose to enter the elementary your path throughout is bilingual, unless you leave for another application high school.

But the high school that receives bi-lingual track students needs to be able to deliver both modes because the attrition is rather high by the end of middle I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

DCPS does not really care that much about what one group of people say they need or want. They need to do what is best for the system. See for example how Banneker High just got the space for an expansion.

Oyster Adams feeding to McFarland is an excellent idea.

It's a terrible idea, and it's not going to happen. I know that you (and many other parents) want your children to have the Oyster experience, but this is not how DCPS will improve "the system."

We love Oyster for many reasons, including the fact that it's walking distance to our home. However, my children will not be forced to attend the MacFarland experiment. We have options, and we'll exercise those options if DCPS tries such nonsense. MacFarland would end up with the Oyster students who don't have options, and most likely, are not the highest performing students. Good luck with that "improvement"!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

DCPS does not really care that much about what one group of people say they need or want. They need to do what is best for the system. See for example how Banneker High just got the space for an expansion.

Oyster Adams feeding to McFarland is an excellent idea.

It's a terrible idea, and it's not going to happen. I know that you (and many other parents) want your children to have the Oyster experience, but this is not how DCPS will improve "the system."

We love Oyster for many reasons, including the fact that it's walking distance to our home. However, my children will not be forced to attend the MacFarland experiment. We have options, and we'll exercise those options if DCPS tries such nonsense. MacFarland would end up with the Oyster students who don't have options, and most likely, are not the highest performing students. Good luck with that "improvement"!

The Middle School is not so close to you house proably, and neither is Wilson, but still I get your point, that people who can will vote with their feet. And maybe they do already so who cares? How many students from the Middle School then go to Wilson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

DCPS does not really care that much about what one group of people say they need or want. They need to do what is best for the system. See for example how Banneker High just got the space for an expansion.

Oyster Adams feeding to McFarland is an excellent idea.

It's a terrible idea, and it's not going to happen. I know that you (and many other parents) want your children to have the Oyster experience, but this is not how DCPS will improve "the system."

We love Oyster for many reasons, including the fact that it's walking distance to our home. However, my children will not be forced to attend the MacFarland experiment. We have options, and we'll exercise those options if DCPS tries such nonsense. MacFarland would end up with the Oyster students who don't have options, and most likely, are not the highest performing students. Good luck with that "improvement"!

The Middle School is not so close to you house proably, and neither is Wilson, but still I get your point, that people who can will vote with their feet. And maybe they do already so who cares? How many students from the Middle School then go to Wilson?

I'm an IB Oyster parent. Actually, Adams is 1 mile from my home, Wilson is 2.5 miles, and MacFarland is 3.3. miles. Yet another reason why MacFarland makes no sense for IB Oyster families. We don't want MacFarland and we don't need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Oyster students would lose their feed into a bilingual middle school? That’s a profoundly dumb idea.

MacFarland is a bilingual middle school, duh.

Adams is Oyster’s bilingual middle school. No one at Oyster wants or needs MacFarland as an option.

DCPS does not really care that much about what one group of people say they need or want. They need to do what is best for the system. See for example how Banneker High just got the space for an expansion.

Oyster Adams feeding to McFarland is an excellent idea.

It's a terrible idea, and it's not going to happen. I know that you (and many other parents) want your children to have the Oyster experience, but this is not how DCPS will improve "the system."

We love Oyster for many reasons, including the fact that it's walking distance to our home. However, my children will not be forced to attend the MacFarland experiment. We have options, and we'll exercise those options if DCPS tries such nonsense. MacFarland would end up with the Oyster students who don't have options, and most likely, are not the highest performing students. Good luck with that "improvement"!

The Middle School is not so close to you house proably, and neither is Wilson, but still I get your point, that people who can will vote with their feet. And maybe they do already so who cares? How many students from the Middle School then go to Wilson?

I'm an IB Oyster parent. Actually, Adams is 1 mile from my home, Wilson is 2.5 miles, and MacFarland is 3.3. miles. Yet another reason why MacFarland makes no sense for IB Oyster families. We don't want MacFarland and we don't need it.

+1.

No idea where this absurd idea came from, but it's clear where it belongs.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like it so I’m taking my ball and going home!

Very mature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like it so I’m taking my ball and going home!

Very mature.

I don't like my ball so I'm going to steal yours.

Yup, that's maturity, dear little Trump