New Jackson-Reed HS (Wilson HS) School Principal - Sah Brown from Eastern High School

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We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

PP didn't say she was black. The reference was to person of color...maybe biracial, Latino, Native American or Asian. The message I take from her story is, if you're IB for Eastern and UMC, don't bother looking into the IBD there, whatever color you may be. Not just a waste of time, but an invitation to a cynical experience, regardless of who's responsible for Eastern's catastrophic academics and IB enrollment.

The many nasty and presumptuous posts on this thread in defense of yet another choice of Wilson/Jackson-Reed principal that can't possibly sit well with most IB families is yet another pointed reminder of how Mayoral control of schools has outstayed its welcome in the District.

How on earth could they possibly have enough (or any) information less than 24 hours after the announcement to have formed any sort of opinion? Or are you talking about all of those JR parents who also send kids to Eastern so they have personal experience with him? Here's what they know so far:

1. He's a black man
2. He is coming from a DCPS school with a 99% minority enrollment
3. He's coming from a school with very few UMC families

I am racking my brain for why you think "this can't possibly sit well". Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, Sah Brown is a tall, dark skinned black man. That may be informing the perceived lack of deference that was shown to the IB Mommy who wanted to have her ass kissed and some of the unease at having a black man from a school with poor kids taking over JR. The subtext here is "Can a black man really understand the UMC needs of our JR population?"

Stop your angry, twisted race-baiting. It belongs in a century gone by.

The mom asked for stats the principal would have had in his head. How do requests for stats comprise ass kissing? The true subtext is, DCPS, up your game to make neighborhood schools just that, schools most neighborhood families embrace with confidence. Enough Easterns already. This candidate doesn't impress through and through. His race is immaterial to reasonable, thoughtful ed stakeholders in the District (read the great majority of said stakeholders).

Did you just tell us racism is over?

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We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

Did she say she is black or POC?

She said POC. Multiple posters assumed she is a “wealthy white woman” (incorrect on two counts) and implied that her opinion therefore doesn’t count and that it is entitled of her to expect her IB school to provide her child with an appropriately challenging education.

Incorrect on two counts? She literally described hers as a "high-SES family" but now that she's said she's POC your brain made her poor. DCUM classic after DCUM classic in this thread.

LOL. You noticed that too, huh? I don't buy for a second the poster is black, but if she is I hope she enjoys being bedfellows with people who patronizingly defend her with assumptions that she's obviously poor because she's black.

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

Ugh. You’re embarrassing. Entitled rich people. As if you are the biggest asset to grace the school with your presence. I’m unimpressed with your post.

Your assumption, PP. not that of the parents of color who met with Brown at Eastern. Please grow up.

She said she was high SES??

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Boy this thread has really taken a very unhelpful detour. As a current JR parent, I find the conversation between one prospective parent and the Principal Brown at his old school pretty much irrelevant. DCPS schools really are not built to woo prospective families. Especially the MS and HS level are pretty much "don't bother me until you are an enrolled family." That was our experience with Principal Martin at Wilson. It was pretty frustrating as a prospective family, but also had nothing to do with how she performed as a principal.

JR is a large diverse school that would benefit from a seasoned well-organized administrator. I'm glad that he has experience from within the DCPS system because it can really take a long time for an outside to learn how things work in DCPS central. I expect that he will find a warm welcome from a community that is looking forward to working with him.

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We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

Did she say she is black or POC?

She said POC. Multiple posters assumed she is a “wealthy white woman” (incorrect on two counts) and implied that her opinion therefore doesn’t count and that it is entitled of her to expect her IB school to provide her child with an appropriately challenging education.

Incorrect on two counts? She literally described hers as a "high-SES family" but now that she's said she's POC your brain made her poor. DCUM classic after DCUM classic in this thread.

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High socio-economic status =/= wealthy.

She said she and her husband both went to college on Pell Grants. They may earn high salaries now, but they probably aren’t truly wealthy.

I did not “make her poor” because she said she is POC. I assume she is not sitting on mounds of wealth because of no inherited money and because few people in DCPS are wealthy (as opposed to UMC). (The wealthy are at private schools.)

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

You must be new to DCUM if you don't understand this phenomenon.

PP didn’t say she was black, she said POC. She is likely half Asian or half Hispanic. Black women don’t usually refer to themselves as black. POC is a way to garner special attention for being a minority but they don’t mention that POC really means other but not a black person with the obstacles that come with being black.

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

Did she say she is black or POC?

She said POC. Multiple posters assumed she is a “wealthy white woman” (incorrect on two counts) and implied that her opinion therefore doesn’t count and that it is entitled of her to expect her IB school to provide her child with an appropriately challenging education.

Incorrect on two counts? She literally described hers as a "high-SES family" but now that she's said she's POC your brain made her poor. DCUM classic after DCUM classic in this thread.

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High socio-economic status =/= wealthy.

She said she and her husband both went to college on Pell Grants. They may earn high salaries now, but they probably aren’t truly wealthy.

I did not “make her poor” because she said she is POC. I assume she is not sitting on mounds of wealth because of no inherited money and because few people in DCPS are wealthy (as opposed to UMC). (The wealthy are at private schools.)

LOL this is so weak. "I said it was incorrect to assume she's wealthy because I assume she's not wealthy because she's just rich not generationally wealthy because nobody in public school is actually wealthy." Truly pathetic that you not only typed this out but thought yep, that'll paper right over it! and hit enter.

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

Did she say she is black or POC?

She said POC. Multiple posters assumed she is a “wealthy white woman” (incorrect on two counts) and implied that her opinion therefore doesn’t count and that it is entitled of her to expect her IB school to provide her child with an appropriately challenging education.

Incorrect on two counts? She literally described hers as a "high-SES family" but now that she's said she's POC your brain made her poor. DCUM classic after DCUM classic in this thread.

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High socio-economic status =/= wealthy.

She said she and her husband both went to college on Pell Grants. They may earn high salaries now, but they probably aren’t truly wealthy.

I did not “make her poor” because she said she is POC. I assume she is not sitting on mounds of wealth because of no inherited money and because few people in DCPS are wealthy (as opposed to UMC). (The wealthy are at private schools.)

LOL this is so weak. "I said it was incorrect to assume she's wealthy because I assume she's not wealthy because she's just rich not generationally wealthy because nobody in public school is actually wealthy." Truly pathetic that you not only typed this out but thought yep, that'll paper right over it! and hit enter.

You win DCUM today.

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

Did she say she is black or POC?

She said POC. Multiple posters assumed she is a “wealthy white woman” (incorrect on two counts) and implied that her opinion therefore doesn’t count and that it is entitled of her to expect her IB school to provide her child with an appropriately challenging education.

Incorrect on two counts? She literally described hers as a "high-SES family" but now that she's said she's POC your brain made her poor. DCUM classic after DCUM classic in this thread.

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High socio-economic status =/= wealthy.

She said she and her husband both went to college on Pell Grants. They may earn high salaries now, but they probably aren’t truly wealthy.

I did not “make her poor” because she said she is POC. I assume she is not sitting on mounds of wealth because of no inherited money and because few people in DCPS are wealthy (as opposed to UMC). (The wealthy are at private schools.)

LOL this is so weak. "I said it was incorrect to assume she's wealthy because I assume she's not wealthy because she's just rich not generationally wealthy because nobody in public school is actually wealthy." Truly pathetic that you not only typed this out but thought yep, that'll paper right over it! and hit enter.

Despite DCUM’s assertion, there is no definition of wealthy that requires generational wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

In the last year pre-covid, the majority of Eastern students were chronically truant. They were not in school. It's really hard to learn the material when you're not in school. Also, the vast majority of in boundary kids choose not to go there. These are not mostly rich white kids. You actually can't obtain a good education anywhere, and a school with abysmal tests scores, high truancy, and where most kids opt not to go there is exactly the school where you can't.

I think your summary is accurate. What I love is DCUM somehow believing that the Principal is responsible for those systemic and societal failures. If only he concentrated on the IB program all those truant, food insecure and years-behind grade level students would be transformed!

DCPS, and thus the principal, is responsible. Kids should not get to hs years behind. DCPS has been resorting for years to gimmicks to make itself snd schools look good on paper, hiding problems (and kids) under the rug. Kids who do well do well, kids who do not well they fudge the numbers and send the kids ahead and then give them a fake diploma. So you remember the Ballou scandal, all the fanfare about the 100% class graduating snd going to college? Then it came out that kids had graduated with 4 month of absences and teachers admitted that some graduating kids were actually illiterate, unable to read and write. But the former chancellor Henderson patted herself on her back for the “success” in improving kids’ education snd went off to a $$$$$$ job in some billionaire’s foundation, all in the back of the kids who were now illiterate adults.

And the principal is not serving thr community. The prior poster may be a high Ses white person gentrifying the area but she was IB for thr school. My kid is at JR and her best friend is a Black kid who is IB for Eastern. Washingtonian for generations, working class-lower middle class family, kid travels every morning to JR where she got a spot as OOB. So a middle class AA kid deeply rooted in the community was also not served by her IB school.

My concern is that DCPS does not care about kids, needs to show improvements in education of disadvantage kids and resort to tricks to make look as if their education is improving when it is not. We have been a JR-Wilson for three years and saw that even in s high performing school: basic classes called “honor” (my kid totally sucks at math-science, really does not understand it, and suddenly at Wilson’s “honor” classes she was a stellar student), AP classes canceled because not enough disadvantage students had signed up (AP World History in sophomore year), attempt to make all English classes AP last year (“AP for all”) because again not enough disadvantage students had signed up for AP classes so the trick was to cancel the regular class snd put all the students in the AP English class. Clearly school under principal Martin (same person who signed the news release about the new principal) could not care less to explain how kids below grade level in English (and there are at JR) would fare in an AP class. The project was scrapped by dcps eventually but the fact that it was thought in the first place tells you everything. The poster above seems to suggest that the new principal is in the same dcps mold, paper over the problem and promote a program that does not work as one that work and that’s it.

Thank you for this post.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, Sah Brown is a tall, dark skinned black man. That may be informing the perceived lack of deference that was shown to the IB Mommy who wanted to have her ass kissed and some of the unease at having a black man from a school with poor kids taking over JR. The subtext here is "Can a black man really understand the UMC needs of our JR population?"

Stop your angry, twisted race-baiting. It belongs in a century gone by.

The mom asked for stats the principal would have had in his head. How do requests for stats comprise ass kissing? The true subtext is, DCPS, up your game to make neighborhood schools just that, schools most neighborhood families embrace with confidence. Enough Easterns already. This candidate doesn't impress through and through. His race is immaterial to reasonable, thoughtful ed stakeholders in the District (read the great majority of said stakeholders).

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No kidding. It's as though huge swaths of DC residents *want* their kids to be illiterate and innumerate, or at least prefer that to having a school system address the "special needs" of people who aren't low SES and well below grade level.

So now we have an announcement that a qualified black man was hired as principal in Ward 3 which leads the completely rational parents of DCUM jump to you must want your kids to be "illiterate and innumerate." I hate it here.

Qualified to head up JR only in the realm of utter mediocrity. That's all he and his track record are. I see nothing exceptional in this candidate. Could care less about the black man component.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy this thread has really taken a very unhelpful detour. As a current JR parent, I find the conversation between one prospective parent and the Principal Brown at his old school pretty much irrelevant. DCPS schools really are not built to woo prospective families. Especially the MS and HS level are pretty much "don't bother me until you are an enrolled family." That was our experience with Principal Martin at Wilson. It was pretty frustrating as a prospective family, but also had nothing to do with how she performed as a principal.

JR is a large diverse school that would benefit from a seasoned well-organized administrator. I'm glad that he has experience from within the DCPS system because it can really take a long time for an outside to learn how things work in DCPS central. I expect that he will find a warm welcome from a community that is looking forward to working with him.

I'd meet him, talk to him, watch what he does before you get your hopes up like this. It doesn't take much interaction to figure out that he's not the brightest, or most open-minded, bulb in the DCPS HS chandelier. It just doesn't bode well for JR community that he hasn't given a hoot if he attracts IB UMC families to Eastern in the last 7 or 8 years.

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I think what the OP wanted is what happened at Hardy circa 2007 in the Michelle Rhee era, when half of Hardy was OOB and Principal Pope literally went knocking on IB doors passing out flyers trying to recruit UMC families. Guess what? It worked. Now Hardy is majority UMC and white again - obviously, those OOB families are now stuck back in SE.

IF Eliot-Hine did something similar, they could probably have a pretty decent MS with a diverse cohort of kids. After all, the IB kids have been together and doing fine at all the feeder schools - Miner, Maury, Payne. The problem lies when those IB kids don't show up, they fill the school with OOB coming from failing schools, and well, the median scores go lower instead of higher.

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I don’t understand all the people on here attacking a parent for asking about IB scores.
You are racist for assuming Eastern is fine the way it is. Poor kids deserve better than they are getting at Eastern.