Wilson Overenrolled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how the OOB parents feel about their kids spending hours on the Metro eacb day this fall. You have to think their neighborhood schools that they can walk to will be more attractive this year.

I'm an OB Wilson parent. No, my IB school is not more attractive. I work near Wilson and am willing to drive my kid if need be.

If you work near Wilson, want your kid to go be with those type of neighborhood kids but yet you don't want to invest into the community. You're a free loader and the type of parent we want out of Wilson. Go make your neighborhood better instead of making ours worse

Holy shit.

That's exactly the BS the principal deals with regularly. I dont know how she does it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.

Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.

Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.

Plus, Bowser's kid will go to Shepherd/Deal/Wilson. No way in hell Shepherd is leaving so long as Bowser is in office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.

Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.

Plus, Bowser's kid will go to Shepherd/Deal/Wilson. No way in hell Shepherd is leaving so long as Bowser is in office.

Bower's kid will eventually go to Private (Catholic) High School. Shepherd is a great elementary school. She might not be as vested in the feeder pattern for personal as you ar making it.

But - she wants to be re-elected.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, Wilson is uniquely positioned to fail over the next 12-18 months due to years of lack of political will that make this type of school helpless to meet the challenges presented by pandemic. Half of the student population is heavily dependent on mass transit which makes it unsafe to open for at least a year. And, in order to provide reasonably effective on-line instruction it requires that students be generally grouped by academic level, which, for political reasons is far from the case at Wilson. It’s hard enough to provide in-person instruction to kids with wide ranging skills. It’s almost impossible to do on line, especially for teachers who have never done it.

This is not unique to Wilson. Stop with the drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.

Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.

Plus, Bowser's kid will go to Shepherd/Deal/Wilson. No way in hell Shepherd is leaving so long as Bowser is in office.

Bower's kid will eventually go to Private (Catholic) High School. Shepherd is a great elementary school. She might not be as vested in the feeder pattern for personal as you ar making it.

But - she wants to be re-elected.

I know Bowser thinks she's untouchable after running unopposed the last time out, but the optics of a DC mayor -- who claims to be all-in on public education -- sending her kid to a private school would be absolutely abysmal. I don't care if that's how she received her education. The DC mayor should send her kid to a DC public school.

Frankly, I'm amazed McDuffie hasn't gotten any sort of heat over this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of OOB feeder rights. Pull bancroft, Sheperd, Oyster out of the feeder pattern. Problem solved.

Doesn’t solve your issue. These schools in total only send maybe 100 kids a year. Lafayette is the issue.

Plus, Bowser's kid will go to Shepherd/Deal/Wilson. No way in hell Shepherd is leaving so long as Bowser is in office.

Bower's kid will eventually go to Private (Catholic) High School. Shepherd is a great elementary school. She might not be as vested in the feeder pattern for personal as you ar making it.

But - she wants to be re-elected.

I know Bowser thinks she's untouchable after running unopposed the last time out, but the optics of a DC mayor -- who claims to be all-in on public education -- sending her kid to a private school would be absolutely abysmal. I don't care if that's how she received her education. The DC mayor should send her kid to a DC public school.

Frankly, I'm amazed McDuffie hasn't gotten any sort of heat over this.

Her daughter will go Catholic for grade school and another private for high school. She will never see the inside of a DCPS or DCPCS.

[Anonymous]

Part of the problem is DCPS following established DCPS policies.

I know families that moved OOB from a feeder elementary. The DCPS rules are that they are able to stay until the terminating grade for the school. I know at least 3 families that enrolled their children at Deal - even though they were supposed to go to their IB.

But no one checks. The systems are not in place.

[Anonymous]

Aside from charters, I don’t think a kid should be allowed to attend a public high school in a desirable cluster unless the kid’s parents paid the same for a house as everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from charters, I don’t think a kid should be allowed to attend a public high school in a desirable cluster unless the kid’s parents paid the same for a house as everyone else.

Renters' children are not entitled to a public education, got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from charters, I don’t think a kid should be allowed to attend a public high school in a desirable cluster unless the kid’s parents paid the same for a house as everyone else.

Keep those poor kids out by any means necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from charters, I don’t think a kid should be allowed to attend a public high school in a desirable cluster unless the kid’s parents paid the same for a house as everyone else.

Troll.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe it’s a policy of DCPS to allow students to transfer from under enrolled in boundary schools to an over enrolled school in Northwest? Is this real?

What message does this send to them about the quality of education provided by the in boundary school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe it’s a policy of DCPS to allow students to transfer from under enrolled in boundary schools to an over enrolled school in Northwest? Is this real?

What message does this send to them about the quality of education provided by the in boundary school?

What message? I agree with the program until you let kids go to schools that are overcrowded. School districts all over have this and they put the stop to it when overcrowding happens.