Time for a citywide traditional elementary school in each ward

[Anonymous]

There seems to be a lot of negativity when mentioning out of boundary students. Sometimes out of boundary students are from the same or adjacent ward. Ward 6 has two citywide DCPS elementary schools. It seems like it is time to have a great citywide school in each ward, quadrant, or some other cluster of schools. There seems to be consumer interest based on waitlists at schools.

[Anonymous]

Disagree. Not a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Time for good neighborhood schools in every neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

What you're proposing are called charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What you're proposing are called charters.

Dorothy Height is a former charter that is now being managed by DCPS in Ward 4. And next year DCPS will take over Excel Academy, which I think is in Ward 8.

[Anonymous]

Why. How many oob families want to travel across the river to ward 8, then fight traffic across the bridge back to work?

You cray.

[Anonymous]

Negativity comes with crowding. No one cares until classes go over 25 and trailers start arriving. Then people realize this wouldn't happen if the boundary were enforced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time for good neighborhood schools in every neighborhood.

This.

[Anonymous]

Citywide schools do not = charter. Charters are wholly separate from city administration. I would like to see more experimentation within the DCPS structure, like magnet schools. STEM focused schools, gifted and talented programs etc. Locate these programs in schools that are under enrolled and offer to in bound families as well as OOB. To some degree this is already being done wth language immersion and a couple of Montessori programs, but I’d like a more diverse offerings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Citywide schools do not = charter. Charters are wholly separate from city administration. I would like to see more experimentation within the DCPS structure, like magnet schools. STEM focused schools, gifted and talented programs etc. Locate these programs in schools that are under enrolled and offer to in bound families as well as OOB. To some degree this is already being done wth language immersion and a couple of Montessori programs, but I’d like a more diverse offerings.

Yes but the Montessori dcps schools are terrible. The only reason the immersion ones are semi successful (emphasis on semi) has to do with motivated parents. There is not one immersion dcps I’d consider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Citywide schools do not = charter. Charters are wholly separate from city administration. I would like to see more experimentation within the DCPS structure, like magnet schools. STEM focused schools, gifted and talented programs etc. Locate these programs in schools that are under enrolled and offer to in bound families as well as OOB. To some degree this is already being done wth language immersion and a couple of Montessori programs, but I’d like a more diverse offerings.

Yes but the Montessori dcps schools are terrible. The only reason the immersion ones are semi successful (emphasis on semi) has to do with motivated parents. There is not one immersion dcps I’d consider.

Not Oyster?

[Anonymous]

So sick of all these “I’ve got the solution!” threads. Everyone with the internet is an education reformer. Exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sick of all these “I’ve got the solution!” threads. Everyone with the internet is an education reformer. Exhausting.

Much like central office; total failure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What you're proposing are called charters.

Dorothy Height is a former charter that is now being managed by DCPS in Ward 4. And next year DCPS will take over Excel Academy, which I think is in Ward 8.

What is the purpose of Dorothy Height? It's corrode because of inertia and lack of DCPS planning.

[Anonymous]

*it exists because of...