Solving the Wilson Feeder crisis - charter schools
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Anonymous
Where is Raymond? Are they closing it? |
Anonymous
If you send my kid on an hour commute to MS or HS, you will lose us to private or MD. If we wanted long commutes, we would live in the subury. More importantly, you would not find an educator in the country who would say that a mega elementary school would be good for the kids. So, fine, build more schools. Why not? It’s beside the point that there is capacity on the other side of town if they haven’t managed development accordingly. |
Anonymous
Mega middle schools are not great for kids either... but Deal. |
Anonymous
Several schools aren't on here (Walker-Jones, Takoma, Leckie, CHM@L, West, Wheatley, etc.)--it seems like a lot of the ECs. With all the kids in Petworth and Brightwood, they really shouldn't close Raymond. Looking at the report card, it's got 2-3 classes in each grade (maybe more for K, which has 81 kids!). |
Anonymous
It's not an hour commute from Mt. Pleasant to MacFarland or Shepherd Park to Wells. Also, if you go to private, we'll still have your taxes and not have to educate your kids. If you go to MD, we'll get the transfer tax when you sell your house and someone else (who will earn plenty of money and pay plenty of taxes) will replace you. DC, and DCPS, don't really care if you stay or not. |
Anonymous
From my home — and from much of upper NW to Mt. Pleasant is 15-20 minutes by car, probably 40 minutes minimum by public transportation. What high school woth so much free space are you envisioning sending the Wilson kids to? The space is mostly in East of the River, I believe. Meanwhile, we don’t own my home, we rent, mainly to have flexibility for schools when faced with the uncertainty of DC schools. We moved once to be near our preschool and once to get the ES right. We can move again, and you will get no transfer tax. Finally, There are lots of people like me. And when we all move, who is going to buy our homes and rent our apartments when their kids will then go to a poorly-conceived elementary school and MS and HS far outside the neighborhood? Real estate values — and property taxes — will plummet. |
Anonymous
Kids zoned for Wilson can go to Wells and Coolidge from Lafayette and Shepherd, and to MacFarland and Roosevelt from Bancroft and Oyster. For some of these kids, that will result in shorter or similar commutes. It's not likely to be an hour for any of them. You won't all move. And DC government doesn't see the ones who would leave as a great loss. They'd rather have college students or recent grads or empty nesters move into your rental. To most of the council, and to the mayor, keeping low-income families in DC is more important than keeping high-income ones. Gentrification, not a bunch of rich families moving to MoCo, is what they fear. |
Anonymous
The list is just elementary schools, not elementary/middle. Here are the K-8 schools: Brightwood EC 1300 Nicholson Street NW 1069 771 298 Browne EC 850 26th Street NE 828 423 405 Truesdell EC 800 Ingraham Street NW 775 763 12 Walker-Jones EC 1125 New Jersey Avenue NW 700 555 145 Raymond EC 915 Spring Road NW 649 632 17 Leckie ES 4201 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SW 580 743 -163 Whittier EC 6201 5th Street NW 520 331 189 SWW @ Francis Stevens EC 2425 N Street NW 513 680 -167 Wheatley EC 1299 Neal Street NE 500 372 128 Takoma EC 7010 Piney Branch Road NW 450 503 -53 LaSalle-Backus EC 501 Riggs Road NE 400 361 39 West EC 1338 Farragut Street NW 378 461 -83 Totals: 7362 6595 767 |
Anonymous
Young professionals without kids. The largest, wealthiest and fastest growing demographic in the city. Truth is families with children use the most city services (schools, summer camps, rec centers and fields, free transit, tax deductions). We are just not the most desired residents from a city planner's perspective -- my family's $150K in income is taxed at a lower rate than the single person across the street. They also eat out more and don't use schools etc. As for holding property values, my Ward 4 home has appreciated 100% in the 10 years since we bought it. And our IB DCPS schools are 1- and 2- STARs. But we are near a Metro, which is more important. |
Anonymous
Many, many students in DC travel far further than that already. They're not going to have a lot of sympathy. |
Anonymous
First of all, the "Wilson feed" is not Wilson -- that includes Janney, Lafayette, Mann and the rest of Upper Caucasia. Secondly, Wilson has a much small rate of at-risk than other HS in DC. Step out of your bubble and breath in the air the rest of dc public ed community breaths. |
Anonymous
Please, educate me on how Wilson feeders are overserved. Other than by simply having kids who achieve. |
Anonymous
The 40 minutes I mention is just to get to the Mt. Pleasant starting point, not the destinations I envisioned above. |
Anonymous
Young professionals without kids are not buying the zillions of 4 bedroom Colonial SFHs with a yard in Upper NW. |
Anonymous
Correction— the destinations *PP* envisioned |