Jefferson Houston school district - administrative transfer?

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

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So, for those families who bought a home in-bounds for JH, your choice is clear. Pay for private, move, or work with parents already at JH to improve the school.

JH has started offering some nice afterschool programs, which is a good thing. But the reason JH isn't performing well is not that it has bad teachers, guidance counselors, or a bad facility - it's because many of its students have a lack of support at home, and are facing huge obstacles outside of school. That's something that parents of other students can do some small amount to change (e.g., blessings in a backpack to send food home) but don't have that much control over.

Actually the reason kids aren't preforming well is poor teaching methods and lack of any consistency in teaching core subject.

for example, last year they had outside consultants from UVA review their reading program and the report was terrible. I mean really bad. It even said the school reading specialist didn't know exactly what their role was. And decent reading instruction depended entirely on the teacher a kid got.

I believe they also had an audit for math a few years back.

The good news is that the principal is leaving at the end of the year. Maybe, just maybe, ACPS can find an outstanding principal who the teachers don't despise, and who will stick around for the long term.

We're also getting a new ACPS superintendent who has elementary-age children, and said he was hoping to live in Old Town. If his kids end up attending Jefferson-Houston it would send a powerful message to everyone to get their act together.

You must be new. Old Town kids attend LC, unless, theyre black and from the 'scary' north end.

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.

Umm, you sound simple. My kids are long grown but Del Ray was Maury until '00. Lots and lots of professional people (you sound like a SAHM) work on these things called 'careers' for long periods of time before they have kids! Like 10 years even! That's a really big time! Half of twenty!

Plenty of folks bought here when it was Maury, worked for a decade or more, had kids, and then got screwed by the change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.

Bad schools are for poor POC and renters?

Take your racist, bigoted sh*t elsewhere lady.

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.

Umm, you sound simple. My kids are long grown but Del Ray was Maury until '00. Lots and lots of professional people (you sound like a SAHM) work on these things called 'careers' for long periods of time before they have kids! Like 10 years even! That's a really big time! Half of twenty!

Plenty of folks bought here when it was Maury, worked for a decade or more, had kids, and then got screwed by the change.

But Maury wasn’t good then either. The 1998 boundary change helped them.

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

Not 100% wrong, you just 100% misunderstood my point. Maury parents fought hard against changing Maury's boundaries in any way that would send Rosemont families to JH instead of Maury. And against moving more lower-income, minority students from JH to Maury in return.

I said nothing about Del Ray kids currently zoned for JH being rezoned into Maury. But I bet Maury parents would have loved that, so if you're saying that happened, I 100% believe it.

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

Not 100% wrong, you just 100% misunderstood my point. Maury parents fought hard against changing Maury's boundaries in any way that would send Rosemont families to JH instead of Maury. And against moving more lower-income, minority students from JH to Maury in return.

I said nothing about Del Ray kids currently zoned for JH being rezoned into Maury. But I bet Maury parents would have loved that, so if you're saying that happened, I 100% believe it.

Not PP, but that's the reasoning many GM parents reached when trying to wrap their heads around the idea of reassigning Beverly drive and south to CB and... then the joke of a grandfathering process.

Can anyone point me to anyone that thinks kids on Beverly should NOT be attending GM? You can actually SEE the school from the end of the street!

The school board thinks it's playing chess with the boundaries/transfers. The wealth kids of Beverly Hills (and Del Ray) are Queens and Bishops ushered in to affect radical change. They aren't looking out for your kid. They're looking out for the system. Expect to be used.

[Anonymous]

Just received our Admin transfer out of JH today.

Apply if you have concerns. Why send your kids to the worst school in the state?

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Anonymous wrote:Just received our Admin transfer out of JH today.

Apply if you have concerns. Why send your kids to the worst school in the state?

What grounds did you cite in requesting the transfer?

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

What can Del Ray parents DO about this? I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood.

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting. Did you show up?

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.

100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave, but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?


Really?

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.

Umm, you sound simple. My kids are long grown but Del Ray was Maury until '00. Lots and lots of professional people (you sound like a SAHM) work on these things called 'careers' for long periods of time before they have kids! Like 10 years even! That's a really big time! Half of twenty!

Plenty of folks bought here when it was Maury, worked for a decade or more, had kids, and then got screwed by the change.

how many people do you know who bought in Del Ray 20+ years ago and yet have elementary aged students young enough to not have been grandfathered in under the old transfer policy?

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how many people do you know who bought in Del Ray 20+ years ago and yet have elementary aged students young enough to not have been grandfathered in under the old transfer policy?

I only know one. Me! I have a rising kindergartner and one still in daycare. We are zoned for J-H and did private for K this year. Trying to figure out what to do going forward because going private all the way for both kids isn’t an option.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
how many people do you know who bought in Del Ray 20+ years ago and yet have elementary aged students young enough to not have been grandfathered in under the old transfer policy?

I only know one. Me! I have a rising kindergartner and one still in daycare. We are zoned for J-H and did private for K this year. Trying to figure out what to do going forward because going private all the way for both kids isn’t an option.

Oops, have a rising first grader.

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I really don’t know where people are getting the idea that the transfers have stopped. My kids are now in middle school but my wife has younger friends and at least two of them have gotten transfers into Maury while living in Delray and zoned for Jefferson Houston. This is for this upcoming year. I think the transfer decisions get made in March.