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Anonymous
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For PS3:
Shepherd (IB preference) Inspired Teaching AppleTree Columbia Heights Mundo Verde Cap City PCS Haynes Powell Also Stokes, LAMB, & Creative Minds. |
Anonymous
This is how the Denver lottery works. If you get in to a "choice" school you no longer have the option for your Inbounds school. |
Anonymous
Okay, so what you're saying is that no matter what happens, your child should stay at the school they lottery into at age 3 or 4, and if you do not commit to your neighborhood school BEFORE the K lottery, you are just screwed? How exactly do you factor a student's changing needs into a lottery decision at age 4? How exactly do you 100% rule out a parent taking a new job (or losing an old one) that results in a wildly different commute structure? I live down 14th Street from Powell, but I work downtown. I didn't put Powell on our PK4 list, despite thinking it's a good school, because I have to go the opposite direction. If I worked in Silver Spring, though, I would absolutely put Powell on the list. It's like you do not want to accept that circumstances and kids change, at all, and want to hold people to decisions they made when their kids were 4 years old. Also, are you sure you're talking about Powell and not, say, Janney? Because you seem really upset about a person attending a charter instead of choosing their EOTP neighborhood school that people only started being excited about last year. |
Anonymous
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For 5th
1) Latin 2) BASIS 3) stay at private |
Anonymous
The lack of diversity also works against Powell for me (I commented on it up thread), but the scores are better than those at some other EOTP schools, including some charters (where that information can be found.) There's also a very involved parent group. My concern there, however, is that the Parents Organized for the Power of Powell are mostly white gentrifiers creating a parallel community that's separate from the Hispanic community. If we got in there, I'd join in but I see myself doing a lot of explaining to my kid about that separation and get uncomfortable just thinking about it. I think the principle sees this as an issue and she elicited my trust when she spoke about community at the open house. I really want Powell to succeed and we'll go if we get in. But I see my son's ability to move comfortably among a variety of backgrounds and SES levels as essential to his development and Powell is still working on that. It's weird, but the real diversity is out in the suburbs. |
Anonymous
| ^^This is exactly what I meant when I wrote above about low parent involvement. A few gentrifying parents who are actively involved is not high parent involvement when it appears that the overwhelming majority of the parents are not involved and are separate and apart from these "new" parents. I want Powell to succeed as well. Would be great to have a neighborhood school that would really work for my family, but right now that is not happening and I do not want my children to suffer because of it. |
Anonymous
I am sorry but that is ridiculous. The whole idea behind a neighborhood system is so that everyone DOES have a back-up school at any and all times in a kid's academic career. That is the way it should be! |
Anonymous
Pipe down, toots. Do you have any idea how unusual DC is with the amount of choice we have and the ability EVERY SINGLE YEAR, to change schools? In most areas on this country your local school is it, otherwise, it's private or homeschooling. So if you don't think that school is a "good fit" then you have to move, pay tuition or teach them yourself. I think what is being argued here is that if YOU CHOOSE to enroll and attend another school other than your local DCPS you have indicated that you don't want to attend the school that is assigned to your address. That's great. You're CHOICE. That doesn't mean you can't change the next year (the circumstances don't matter...whether it's logistical or philosophical). But if you suddenly want to reclaim your right to your local school you really should be required to submit enrollment documentation in the timeframe that IB children already attending are asked to, otherwise you should have lottery as if you're OOB. At first I thought people who were preaching "do away with all school assignments" were crazy, but now I'm starting to see the value in it. |
Anonymous
Do you have any idea how planning and budgeting works? Would you be happy if 20 additional and unexpected inboundary children showed up at your child's school the first day of school and suddenly the 20:1 ratio in your child's class was 30:1? Please think about that. |
Anonymous
This is definitely worrisome, as someone who put Powell relatively high. The thing is, I always assumed that parents putting their kids in a bilingual program themselves would speak Spanish and would make an effort to bridge that divide. Maybe that assumption was just flat out wrong. |
Anonymous
Yes, it was wrong. |
Anonymous
| the lists were much more fun. |
Anonymous
| Is there any way we can get back to the lists? New thread maybe? |
Anonymous
There's no need to be condescending with your "toots" comment. I know exactly how unusual DC is with the level of school choice, and I'm familiar with how stressful it is if your child needs to attend a different school mid-year or even at the end of the year without... what? I do not see on the DCPS website any "intent to enroll" forms. Just enrollment forms, which are due May 1. A student entering kindergarten and above from another school - any other school - simply needs to submit their enrollment forms by May 1, just like every student who got in via the lottery. Whatever "intent to re-enroll" forms children who are already attending the school fill out are not relevant to new students, since they are not re-enrolling at all. I understand that you would like people to stop abusing the system, but what you are talking about ("too bad, kid, you stay where you are even if it's horrible and you have another option!") seems cruel to kids. It is also not the policy. |
Anonymous
Why don't you post your list? If you already have, then make up another one. |