EOTP DCPS

[Anonymous]

I love seeing posts that are people considering more than just wilson basis and sww.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Agreed on bureaucrats not wanting to spend the money for low income kids. So then I'll take the voucher so my kid can actually safely go to school somewhere.

It's actually the voting public that doesn't support the spending.

omg how much more spending do you need. DC spends an insane amount on education and gets almost nothing back, you know why

It starts with the parents/culture. When too many people don't value that, no amount of spending is going to fix this underlying problem

OK, so gimme the voucher. Fixing DCPS is useless and people deserve a safe place for their children to learn.

All about you, huh?

No, it's all about attracting and keeping middle class families in the city, and providing opportunity to any kid to better herself or himself.

[Anonymous]

How the hell do we expect to keep a middle class with out of control rent and housing prices?

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell do we expect to keep a middle class with out of control rent and housing prices?

Nobody wants national middle class, they would barely hang on EOTR. We are talking about DC middle class 200k and up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations, this is probably the most disgusting thing I have read on here.

"Just as I no more mix with the janitorial or mail room staff what do my kids gain from having a surge of kids looking for handouts populate their school?"

Rare bit of truth is what it is. How many parents clamor for the type of diversity at their office that they think is good for the schools? Go ahead and hire some high school drop out or an illiterate athlete to be your new lead PM. How about hiring 130% more people than your section can afford so everybody has to take a pay cut? How about HR giving benefits for the office building next door because they haven’t posted a profit in years and then they have to rescind them for internal new hires.

Why should the schools have the diversity when the neighborhoods don’t, the country clubs, the social clubs? Where is the lower SES section of founding farmers? Your husband’s car club?

It is all bull shit and I honestly want somebody around to take my maids place for chump change when she quits, gets deported or too old. And I don’t particularly want it to be my offspring.

I get it people want a meritocracy but what is the bases of merits? Intelligance? Strength? Generational domination? Wealth? Do we let the underclass chose? I understand why people are bitter that they came in far behind on a fixed race but what I don’t understand is why they think there is some galactic reset button. This isn’t Xbox, your ansestors didn’t make the moves that would pave the way for a better tomorrow, you are now paying for that. And yes it is already written for your kids too save for a few outliers as to give off the impression of social mobility. At least just enough to keep the masses fat, dumb with diabetes.

John Hopkins tracked hundreds of Baltimore children for decades, maybe two dozen actually made it out of poverty and that is only the poverty line which is still poor.

The part feel goods miss is for every child to get lifted out of poverty most times one takes their place. X number of resources/ Y number of consumers = distribution. All we are really talking about is redistribution of the haves and the have nots.

[Anonymous]

^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

With atrocious grammar and spelling.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

From the looks of this place, there seem to be a lot of closet terrible people in DC. I'm not surprised in the least that a DC resident thinks like this. I thought DC was progressive when we moved here but dcum has just taught me people secretly think like this. Which is more dangerous than people who are open with their racist and classist feelings.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

From the looks of this place, there seem to be a lot of closet terrible people in DC. I'm not surprised in the least that a DC resident thinks like this. I thought DC was progressive when we moved here but dcum has just taught me people secretly think like this. Which is more dangerous than people who are open with their racist and classist feelings.

look snowflake upper middle class people and upper class are in a rat race to secure the next generation. There simply aren't enough spots at top colleges for people to be worried about hurting feelings or taking a chance on mixing with people who don't value education or have the intelligence to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thomson is adding another Pre-K class next year, so it will be a good year for OOB to try to get in

What is the source for this information? Is there a source somewhere that shows how many lottery spots each school will have for 2018-19 for PK-3?

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Anonymous wrote:Thomson is adding another Pre-K class next year, so it will be a good year for OOB to try to get in

What is the source for this information? Is there a source somewhere that shows how many lottery spots each school will have for 2018-19 for PK-3?

The only way to get this is from the principal, usually mentioned during an open house. Always lots of rumors flying, and some turn out to be wrong. DCPS does NOT release this information. DCPS classes seem to be added a) post-renovation b) when IB enrollment is inching up (assuming there is space).

Other than this, growth almost always happens at the Title 1 (low income) schools where the need is greatest.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

From the looks of this place, there seem to be a lot of closet terrible people in DC. I'm not surprised in the least that a DC resident thinks like this. I thought DC was progressive when we moved here but dcum has just taught me people secretly think like this. Which is more dangerous than people who are open with their racist and classist feelings.

look snowflake upper middle class people and upper class are in a rat race to secure the next generation. There simply aren't enough spots at top colleges for people to be worried about hurting feelings or taking a chance on mixing with people who don't value education or have the intelligence to keep up.

This. So much economic anxiety, and that is what is driving this. The current generation of middle-class Americans is the first in decades to be doing less-well than their parents (on the whole, plenty of exceptions out there in anecdata), and they are desperate to try to give their kids the best chance of success and seem to view our society as a zero-sum game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ you are a sad and horrible person.

+1. And I doubt they even live in DC.

From the looks of this place, there seem to be a lot of closet terrible people in DC. I'm not surprised in the least that a DC resident thinks like this. I thought DC was progressive when we moved here but dcum has just taught me people secretly think like this. Which is more dangerous than people who are open with their racist and classist feelings.

look snowflake upper middle class people and upper class are in a rat race to secure the next generation. There simply aren't enough spots at top colleges for people to be worried about hurting feelings or taking a chance on mixing with people who don't value education or have the intelligence to keep up.

This. So much economic anxiety, and that is what is driving this. The current generation of middle-class Americans is the first in decades to be doing less-well than their parents (on the whole, plenty of exceptions out there in anecdata), and they are desperate to try to give their kids the best chance of success and seem to view our society as a zero-sum game.

correct,its not even that why would anyone want to take a gamble on the education quality of their child. I don't care what your SES is you are going to move heaven and Earth to get into the school with the best opportunities for your child

That means buying in the most expensive neighborhood you can afford and trying all the charter and lottery tricks in the book.

Now what DCUM is ignorant of is that everyone does this. There are plenty of people in say ward 8 that are trying to get into certain schools/charters etc. Now most of DCUM would laugh at where they are trying to go but it's the best they can do. Noone is sitting around, DC has over 70% OOB remember.