Peabody, SWS, or Brent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've lived on the Hill for 20 years, and have been IB for the Cluster since having children myself a decade back. Family after family I know from the neighborhood has given up on Watkins after a year, or two, or three. From the sounds of it, the current principal mostly cares about closing the achievement gap in a school whose catchment area is now at least 3/4 UMC and 2/3 white. It's an unfortunate situation. I wish that most IB families loved Watkins. You can always hire a math tutor to round our your child's learning experience at Brent, SWS and Maury, but you can't fix what ails Watkins as a parent.

It's an unfortunate situation that she wants to close the achievement gap? For the kids actually attending the school. That's gross. I'm a Cluster parent - one kids SWS/Watkins/SH on to Walls, and another Peabody/Watkins/SH. The school has its ups and downs but to criticize it for trying to serve the kids in the building and work to improve their outcomes is outrageous. Most kids I know - IB or OOB - are great kids with bright/promising futures and a love of learning.

You think that your knee-jerk, myopic and sanctimonious ranting helps poor kids.

It doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've lived on the Hill for 20 years, and have been IB for the Cluster since having children myself a decade back. Family after family I know from the neighborhood has given up on Watkins after a year, or two, or three. From the sounds of it, the current principal mostly cares about closing the achievement gap in a school whose catchment area is now at least 3/4 UMC and 2/3 white. It's an unfortunate situation. I wish that most IB families loved Watkins. You can always hire a math tutor to round our your child's learning experience at Brent, SWS and Maury, but you can't fix what ails Watkins as a parent.

It's an unfortunate situation that she wants to close the achievement gap? For the kids actually attending the school. That's gross. I'm a Cluster parent - one kids SWS/Watkins/SH on to Walls, and another Peabody/Watkins/SH. The school has its ups and downs but to criticize it for trying to serve the kids in the building and work to improve their outcomes is outrageous. Most kids I know - IB or OOB - are great kids with bright/promising futures and a love of learning.

You think that your knee-jerk, myopic and sanctimonious ranting helps poor kids.

It doesn't.

ffs - go away

[Anonymous]

The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've lived on the Hill for 20 years, and have been IB for the Cluster since having children myself a decade back. Family after family I know from the neighborhood has given up on Watkins after a year, or two, or three. From the sounds of it, the current principal mostly cares about closing the achievement gap in a school whose catchment area is now at least 3/4 UMC and 2/3 white. It's an unfortunate situation. I wish that most IB families loved Watkins. You can always hire a math tutor to round our your child's learning experience at Brent, SWS and Maury, but you can't fix what ails Watkins as a parent.

It's an unfortunate situation that she wants to close the achievement gap? For the kids actually attending the school. That's gross. I'm a Cluster parent - one kids SWS/Watkins/SH on to Walls, and another Peabody/Watkins/SH. The school has its ups and downs but to criticize it for trying to serve the kids in the building and work to improve their outcomes is outrageous. Most kids I know - IB or OOB - are great kids with bright/promising futures and a love of learning.

You think that your knee-jerk, myopic and sanctimonious ranting helps poor kids.

It doesn't.

ffs - go away

No, stay and stand up to the PC name callers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

No one is stopping them, troll. DCPS' strong suit isn't teaching proper sentence structure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

The funny thing is that the ones bemoaning the priorities of the Watkins admin are those that don't enroll their kids there. I'm on of the PPs (didn't tell anyone to f-off though) and my kids went from Peabody/SWS to Watkins to SH. One got into an application school no problem, and I expect the others will too (The younger ones are targeting different application schools than the oldest).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

No one is stopping them, troll. DCPS' strong suit isn't teaching proper sentence structure.

wow! that's the hill you're gonna die on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

The funny thing is that the ones bemoaning the priorities of the Watkins admin are those that don't enroll their kids there. I'm on of the PPs (didn't tell anyone to f-off though) and my kids went from Peabody/SWS to Watkins to SH. One got into an application school no problem, and I expect the others will too (The younger ones are targeting different application schools than the oldest).

And you know this because...???

Our oldest was at Watkins for two and a half years. We moved in-boundary for Maury over the winter and enrolled there this year. Much better despite the trailer camp.

I mostly found challenge for my Watkins student at home, by creating the challenge. It was too much work for a busy mama so glad I've been able to scale back this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents. Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade. Ouch.

no one is stopping them troll

The funny thing is that the ones bemoaning the priorities of the Watkins admin are those that don't enroll their kids there. I'm on of the PPs (didn't tell anyone to f-off though) and my kids went from Peabody/SWS to Watkins to SH. One got into an application school no problem, and I expect the others will too (The younger ones are targeting different application schools than the oldest).

And you know this because...???

Our oldest was at Watkins for two and a half years. We moved in-boundary for Maury over the winter and enrolled there this year. Much better despite the trailer camp.

I mostly found challenge for my Watkins student at home, by creating the challenge. It was too much work for a busy mama so glad I've been able to scale back this year.

There are people who go through Watkins and it works for their kids. They have posted above and posters who responded critically are idiots. I'm glad to hear their positive stories.

It's also true that there are many of us who tried Watkins - in our case for a total of 7 years with two kids - and did not have a great experience and are leaving. We generally liked the teachers, from what we saw, and each of our children was OK for some years, but they did consistently complain about discipline issues, and sometimes complained about boredom.

Telling people that had a good experience that they are wrong is silly. But so is ignoring the real problems that many kids have.

[Anonymous]

OP here- thanks everyone for your thoughts. It’s been enlightening. Just an update: we are now #1 on waitlist for SWS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- thanks everyone for your thoughts. It’s been enlightening. Just an update: we are now #1 on waitlist for SWS.

Bummer! That is the worst. At least it is only July. . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here- thanks everyone for your thoughts. It’s been enlightening. Just an update: we are now #1 on waitlist for SWS.

Bummer! That is the worst. At least it is only July. . .

My prediction is that you'll stay at #1 all year long. Sorry OP.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any specific criticism of SWS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any specific criticism of SWS?

The building is outdated. But other than that, it's a terrific school.