Assault outside Wilson

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is MS-13?

I hate to sound like Trump, but if any of these MS-13 gang members are illegal aliens, the DC school authorities and the Department of Homeland Security need to work ASAP not only to remove them from the DC public schools but from the United States. That would be a strong deterrent to the spread of illegal gang behavior.

You do sound just like Trump. Disgusting.

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An attitude that excuses criminality could have us all saying "President-elect Trump" in November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is MS-13?

I hate to sound like Trump, but if any of these MS-13 gang members are illegal aliens, the DC school authorities and the Department of Homeland Security need to work ASAP not only to remove them from the DC public schools but from the United States. That would be a strong deterrent to the spread of illegal gang behavior.

You do sound just like Trump. Disgusting.

+1

An attitude that excuses criminality could have us all saying "President-elect Trump" in November.

Over 17% of the US population self-identify as Hispanic. Hispanics are the second most popular racial/ethnic group in the United States. They are only outnumbered by non-Hispanics whites. Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States after Asian Americans. There are over 52 million Hispanic Americans in the US. Over 40 million are US citizens. Given those facts, automatically thinking that an Hispanic kid, men, woman... you name it! is an illegal alien demonstrates pure ignorance and smells like bigotry.

No one is making excuses to gang violence -or any type of violence, but equaling Hispanic with illegal immigrant it sounds a lot like Donald Trump.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any actual information about this crime? Ugh, I just dreamed I was back in college, living with my lame bf, get a 2nd useless liberal arts degree. Shake it off.
The facts pls: Who have they arrested and charged?

[Anonymous]

No facts other than the news report.

But on a brighter note, 8 Wilson students made the cut for Presidential Scholar candidates ... more than every local private school except Sidwell. In all, DCPS/DCPCS students account for more than 30% of the DC list of candidates.

[Anonymous]

That's great news, but remember that Wilson is a MUCH larger school than the others, so eight is not a huge percentile number. For Wilson, I'd be curious to see if scores are up across the board. I don't care much about Presidential Scholar designation, but I would like to know how many Wilson students are scoring in the 98-99th percentile on their standardized tests.

[Anonymous]

When a top national prize goes to one child, is it more valuable if the child goes to a small school instead a big school? In this case, percentage of the class is not a factor.

So, I wouldn't make so much about Wilson being bigger in this case. The other schools hand select the entire class. One might expect all 63 candidates to be among these hand selected classes of students. Instead, 30% of the list is from DCPS/DCPCS. The candidate selection isn't about percentiles, it is about having one of the top 20 SAT/ACT scores in DC, and Wilson had more kids in that elite group than GDS, St. Alban's, Maret, etc.

So for a parent of a DC kid who still needs evidence that Wilson offers an academically advanced cohort sufficient to challenge their children in the advanced classes, I'd say this helps a lot. So much attention is paid to the kids who do wrong -- lets give credit to the kids who are doing it right.

[Anonymous]

As you say, more academically strong students are choosing Wilson so I would expect to see more high scorers there. I think the academics at Wilson are good, not great by any stretch, and while I think there are some dangerous kids at the school, the vast majority of students are not criminals or even poorly behaved. Wilson has a ways to go, but it's a decent public school at this point.

[Anonymous]

Another assault on a 35 year old male by Wilson students. Thank god they were arrested. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/01/28/six-arrested-after-rush-hour-fight-on-red-line/?hpid=hp_local-news_woodley-945am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately this is a good argument for neighborhood schools. . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another assault on a 35 year old male by Wilson students. Thank god they were arrested. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/01/28/six-arrested-after-rush-hour-fight-on-red-line/?hpid=hp_local-news_woodley-945am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Wow

"Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said each of the suspects — five males and one female, all Wilson High School students 16 to 17 years old — is charged with felony assault. Four suspects were charged with assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct, in addition to the felony assault charge. Two others were later identified by the victim and charged with felony assault. Pavlik said the 35-year-old victim suffered cuts to his face."

Those animals belong in jail, not in Wilson or in public transportation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As you say, more academically strong students are choosing Wilson so I would expect to see more high scorers there. I think the academics at Wilson are good, not great by any stretch, and while I think there are some dangerous kids at the school, the vast majority of students are not criminals or even poorly behaved. Wilson has a ways to go, but it's a decent public school at this point.

Many congrats to the Wilson (and other) kids who were named Pres Scholar candidates. To see how the process works, you see last year's candidates at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2015/awards.html

In 2015, there were several dozen candidates from DC. Strangely, none were from Wilson and only 3 or 4 were from a DCPS (Walls). 6 or 7 went on to become DC semifinalists (all private school students) and 2 became finalists (one from Washington International School and one from Maret).

Our experience with Wilson has been that there's a small group of really smart, really motivated students. There are lots of kids in the middle. And there is a pretty noticeable and large group of kids who aren't there to learn. Your very smart kid can do fine at Wilson (there are a lot of good and hard-working teachers but the curriculum is seriously outdated and the administration is DCPS-quality in the worst way), but may encounter a number of obstacles so should be very self-motivated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As you say, more academically strong students are choosing Wilson so I would expect to see more high scorers there. I think the academics at Wilson are good, not great by any stretch, and while I think there are some dangerous kids at the school, the vast majority of students are not criminals or even poorly behaved. Wilson has a ways to go, but it's a decent public school at this point.

Many congrats to the Wilson (and other) kids who were named Pres Scholar candidates. To see how the process works, you see last year's candidates at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2015/awards.html

In 2015, there were several dozen candidates from DC. Strangely, none were from Wilson and only 3 or 4 were from a DCPS (Walls). 6 or 7 went on to become DC semifinalists (all private school students) and 2 became finalists (one from Washington International School and one from Maret).

Our experience with Wilson has been that there's a small group of really smart, really motivated students. There are lots of kids in the middle. And there is a pretty noticeable and large group of kids who aren't there to learn. Your very smart kid can do fine at Wilson (there are a lot of good and hard-working teachers but the curriculum is seriously outdated and the administration is DCPS-quality in the worst way), but may encounter a number of obstacles so should be very self-motivated.

I think that's a fair assessment. I just worry that the group that's not there to learn is getting larger and more violent. And yes, the curriculum is not great.

[Anonymous]

Can someone remind me please the final stipulations of the 2014 DME boundary review, which I think introduced minimum quotas for OB non-feeder lottery students at each entry class (1st grade, 6th grade, 9th grade) ? I cannot remember the final version or whether it was only for OB students or for OB FARM students....Or whether t was from 2015 or with a later roll-out date.

Please help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As you say, more academically strong students are choosing Wilson so I would expect to see more high scorers there. I think the academics at Wilson are good, not great by any stretch, and while I think there are some dangerous kids at the school, the vast majority of students are not criminals or even poorly behaved. Wilson has a ways to go, but it's a decent public school at this point.

Many congrats to the Wilson (and other) kids who were named Pres Scholar candidates. To see how the process works, you see last year's candidates at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2015/awards.html

In 2015, there were several dozen candidates from DC. Strangely, none were from Wilson and only 3 or 4 were from a DCPS (Walls). 6 or 7 went on to become DC semifinalists (all private school students) and 2 became finalists (one from Washington International School and one from Maret).

Our experience with Wilson has been that there's a small group of really smart, really motivated students. There are lots of kids in the middle. And there is a pretty noticeable and large group of kids who aren't there to learn. Your very smart kid can do fine at Wilson (there are a lot of good and hard-working teachers but the curriculum is seriously outdated and the administration is DCPS-quality in the worst way), but may encounter a number of obstacles so should be very self-motivated.

What obstacles? I agree that the syllabus for some subjects would benefit from an update, and some administration personnel (not all of them) should be fired.... But no obstanles for far... (10th grade). What obstacles can he expect to encounter during the next two years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As you say, more academically strong students are choosing Wilson so I would expect to see more high scorers there. I think the academics at Wilson are good, not great by any stretch, and while I think there are some dangerous kids at the school, the vast majority of students are not criminals or even poorly behaved. Wilson has a ways to go, but it's a decent public school at this point.

Many congrats to the Wilson (and other) kids who were named Pres Scholar candidates. To see how the process works, you see last year's candidates at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2015/awards.html

In 2015, there were several dozen candidates from DC. Strangely, none were from Wilson and only 3 or 4 were from a DCPS (Walls). 6 or 7 went on to become DC semifinalists (all private school students) and 2 became finalists (one from Washington International School and one from Maret).

Our experience with Wilson has been that there's a small group of really smart, really motivated students. There are lots of kids in the middle. And there is a pretty noticeable and large group of kids who aren't there to learn. Your very smart kid can do fine at Wilson (there are a lot of good and hard-working teachers but the curriculum is seriously outdated and the administration is DCPS-quality in the worst way), but may encounter a number of obstacles so should be very self-motivated.

I think that's a fair assessment. I just worry that the group that's not there to learn is getting larger and more violent. And yes, the curriculum is not great.

Who are these violent, disruptive kids? Are they coming up through feeder schools? -- I ask, because you don't hear of incidents like this at Deal. I didn't think that there were extra slots at Wilson in grade 9 or other grades. In any event, the administration and the police need to identify kids who are involved in violence or are repeatedly getting into other serious trouble and then separate them from Wilson is there is a legal basis to do so.