Banneker and Shaw to co-locate at Shaw?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

This was floated as one possible solution to Deal/Wilson over-crowding. Creating schools to draw people out of that pattern

As I heard it discussed the idea/dream of a city-wide DCPS application MS and hopefully many students continue on to Banneker. They believe this would also pull some kids out fo charters.

However that was before Paul Kihn came to town. And he is strongly pushing his analysis that there is too much capacity, especially in DCPS at the MS level. So it may not get off the ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

This was floated as one possible solution to Deal/Wilson over-crowding. Creating schools to draw people out of that pattern

As I heard it discussed the idea/dream of a city-wide DCPS application MS and hopefully many students continue on to Banneker. They believe this would also pull some kids out fo charters.

However that was before Paul Kihn came to town. And he is strongly pushing his analysis that there is too much capacity, especially in DCPS at the MS level. So it may not get off the ground.

At the Cardozo feeder meetings DCPS said they were not pursuing this idea further. If it were for arts I would have gotten it. Otherwise stupid when there is a moment to build a neighborhood middle school that has buy in. Could be the 3rd in dc if DCPS wants it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

Good idea. Give them the choice. Just not Deal anymore. How they got that last time is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

Good idea. Give them the choice. Just not Deal anymore. How they got that last time is beyond me.

Because diversity and equity. Would there be more than 3% Latino students at Deal or Wilson if Bancroft didn't feed there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

Good idea. Give them the choice. Just not Deal anymore. How they got that last time is beyond me.

Because diversity and equity. Would there be more than 3% Latino students at Deal or Wilson if Bancroft didn't feed there?

Bancroft families have the choice to feed to MacFarland MS now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

1. DCPS tracks in MS. SH, Hardy, Jefferson and probably others. But not at Deal.
2. At a very meeting with Shaw parents, DCPS said the application MS idea is no longer on the table (that was an idea of the last Chancellor). Since Kihn came in he has been laser-focused on capacity and number of vacant seats. Creating new DCPS MSs especially is unneeded according to the DME analysis released a couple of weeks ago (In fact, he is urging co-location between charters and DCPS in underutilized buildings).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

Tracking offers no benefits to Bowser's charter and real estate development cronies. A citywide school allows for a DCPS building renovation without the struggle of reboundarying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

Tracking offers no benefits to Bowser's charter and real estate development cronies. A citywide school allows for a DCPS building renovation without the struggle of reboundarying.

DCPS does track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

They are not doing it. They thought about it, discussed it publicly. Decided against it. I am pleased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An all city middle school MAGNET at the old Banneker site is great idea and long overdue. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t support that. The mayor should announce that for good press honestly.

+100!! Centrally located and a shoe-in “feeder” to Banneker. That would be my dream and I’m IB for Deal.

Wait, so DCPS is super against tracking within an MS but happy to create an application magnet? WTF is that about?

1. DCPS tracks in MS. SH, Hardy, Jefferson and probably others. But not at Deal.
2. At a very meeting with Shaw parents, DCPS said the application MS idea is no longer on the table (that was an idea of the last Chancellor). Since Kihn came in he has been laser-focused on capacity and number of vacant seats. Creating new DCPS MSs especially is unneeded according to the DME analysis released a couple of weeks ago (In fact, he is urging co-location between charters and DCPS in underutilized buildings).

Doesn’t Kohn realize that an application magnet MS would INCREASE the numbers of students who stay in DCPS 4th grade? That’s how to fill capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

Good idea. Give them the choice. Just not Deal anymore. How they got that last time is beyond me.

Because diversity and equity. Would there be more than 3% Latino students at Deal or Wilson if Bancroft didn't feed there?

Don't they get many latino via Oyster Adamas feed to Wilson? Latino diversity is not the only driver here. Also, CHEC seems to be a Latino high school. Banneker seems to be a black high school. No one is clamoring to get rich white kids in there to do something about the diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually now Save Shaw might get Bannker do you think they will send Bancroft kids there also, to take some heat out of Deal?

That is how they will get the numbers they need to justify this thing.

No. Why would Bancroft feed to Shaw and not McFarland that has Spanish path and same distance?

Good idea. Give them the choice. Just not Deal anymore. How they got that last time is beyond me.

Because diversity and equity. Would there be more than 3% Latino students at Deal or Wilson if Bancroft didn't feed there?

Don't they get many latino via Oyster Adamas feed to Wilson? Latino diversity is not the only driver here. Also, CHEC seems to be a Latino high school. Banneker seems to be a black high school. No one is clamoring to get rich white kids in there to do something about the diversity.

Adams is roughly 50/50 Latino/non-Latino. But there are only 65-66 students per grade at Adams, so at most 33 would go to Wilson each year.

CHEC is 67% Latino, and 32% AA, but those are combined for the MS and application high school. As for Banneker, it is still majority AA but the Latino population is growing each year (now 20%).

However, having very little ethnic or racial diversity or economic diversity, which is what Wilson is rapidly trending toward, is a legitimate problem for the only high-performing comprehensive high school in the city.