What are the differences between the JLKMs?
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Anonymous
+1 What a boring existence. |
Anonymous
Politics. The preference upset the Marion Bowser base. |
Anonymous
True that. |
Anonymous
Troll. You are not a Janney parent- no Janney parent I know would ever say that. |
Anonymous
We have the choice. We can move easily between schools. I guess I must be the 1 or 2 out of 100. Not all of us are stuck with a house in AU Park. Don't see me moving anywhere near Janney. Used live right across the street from Lafayette, but the Connecticut Avenue strip was a bore. Moved bore kid started school. |
Anonymous
I think there used to be one, but this one is somebody else for sure. |
Anonymous
Size - number of students Feeder - those in the Hardy Zone are less likely to move with their cohort to middle school After school care - some are more available than othesr Neighborhood - some have richer families, some more multi-family housing, etc. Staffing/Resources - can differ here, depending on size, PTA $$, etc. We are at Janney so I can only speak to it... Size - large! Five classes per grade (other than Pre-K which they shrunk to allow five 5th grade classes this year) Feeder - Deal, most kids we know are going to Deal this fall, a couple left for Washington Latin, a few are going to private next year After school care - large program, can drop-in, space isn't an issue Neighborhood - mainly boxy colonials with additions and small/no yard, lots of families (Janney went from 500 to 700 in five years) Staffing/Resources - lots of staff; assistant teachers, co-teachers (with master's), lots of enrichment classes, language classes (even Mandarin), lots of support staff |
Anonymous
Mann used to be better than Janney, but for the last decade or so Janney moved ahead. The fact that Janney gets Wilson and Mann is stuck with Hardy doesn't help Mann. Janney parents are justly proud of their school. |
Anonymous
"Marion Bowser" -- love it, so true! 
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Anonymous
I'll never understand why people need to bash other schools. 1.) Eaton had 54% IB in SY 2016/2017. No data released yet for SY 2017/108. 2.) Even if every single child in the Eaton boundary attended Eaton, at its current over capacity stuffed size, the school could still not be fully IB, there are simply not enough children IB. Perhaps that wouldn't be an issue if the school population was right-sized to its building, but politics preempts reason. |
Anonymous
| I actually think Brent and Maury are both Tier I. Both of their 5th grade scores a somewhat depressed by the fact that 50%+ of the class leaves for Latin/Basis/CHDS/St. Peters/lotterying into a Deal feeder. Unsurprisingly, the 50% that leaves is not random and tends towards the higher achieving/more involved parents set (though obviously not exclusively). |
Anonymous
| ^^ I mean Tier I in terms of the actual experience of being there. In terms of what school I would choose? Clearly a school in NW w/ an actual MS feed. |
Anonymous
| Traditional and charter schools need to both start middle school at the same grade. When do private schools start middle schools? Across the nation, at what grade do most middle schools start? What was the reason for changing from junior high to middle schools? All middle schools that receive any public funding need to start at the same grade. This would provide uniformity and stop brain drain and confusion in certain grades. What are the plans to improve all middle schools and make them competitive so that parents won’t chase certain schools just for the feeder school path and won’t abandon traditional schools? |
Anonymous
Some privates begin middle at 5th. Others at 4th. And still others, such as Catholic parochial schools, don't have middle school at all but rather have K-8th elementaries. Close to DC, MoCo starts middle at 6th and Fairfax County has K-6th grade, with 7th and 8th grade being middle schools. There is no uniformity. DCPS still has Pk3-8th schools as well, and some have no plans to be folded into a 6th-8th-grade model. |
Anonymous
Elementary school crowding. There is no room to put 4-6 classrooms of sixth graders in each of the Deal feeder elementary schools. |