"4x4" block at Wilson HS next year?

[Anonymous]

I'm still pretty worried that DCPS will force Wilson to switch to 4x4 a year later.
I think that Wilson is a very different school from Anacostia and Ballou. A one size fits all solution does not work for DCPS high schools.
They should give principals some flexibility on choosing whether 4x4 schedule is best for their school or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still pretty worried that DCPS will force Wilson to switch to 4x4 a year later.
I think that Wilson is a very different school from Anacostia and Ballou. A one size fits all solution does not work for DCPS high schools.
They should give principals some flexibility on choosing whether 4x4 schedule is best for their school or not.

When the DME task force got data from dCPS it showed that the most movement of HS students was from one comprehensive high school to another.

That is probably why they want to align them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't that leave very few slots for anything ther than "core" courses?

Same number of classes in the end. Seems like it would encourage students to add more challenging courses, though, because they wouldn't have to deal with 6 APs at once, only 3 per semester.

Pretty sure that you can count on one hand the # of DCPS kids who take 6 AP classes in one year. Even the highest achievers struggle with 5. Put AP chem or physics in there and you have your hands completely full.

And no, this schedule would encourage my child to take fewer AP classes, because for any that occurred first semester, she would be at a huge disadvantage on a national test on which most kids were completing the class right before taking the test, whereas she would have had 5 months to forget the material.

Unless the semester break was at the end of November, it would not be 5 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sooo glad to be nearly done with DCPS
this idea clearly comes from people who aren't teaching college-bound kids

+1- thankful I'll be done after next year. 19 years in DCPS is more than enough!

[Anonymous]

If you can't close the achievent gap by bringing up the bottom, you need to do it by hurting the top.