KIPP is going to get another DCPS school. Where is the outrage?

[Anonymous]

KIPP is going after another building. This time Ferebee Hope. Where is the protest? Doesn’t anyone care that they are taking over with their militaristic ways of treating kids and parents?

[Anonymous]

There are elements of KIPP that are valuable. They are breaking down executive functioning (something my child struggles with) so that children are able to be successful in the classroom.

My kids at a HRCS who have a child driven approach have terrible handwriting and make their letters and numbers starting from the bottom. This is inefficient - but the school does not teach handwriting so now we are stuck with it. It is really hard to undue.

[Anonymous]

KIPP is targeted at black kids. White parents don't care.

[Anonymous]

This was announced months ago - just catching up OP? IT is literally the first campus that has been excessed in the 5 years that Bowser has been mayor.

The city is getting KIPP to renovate not just the school but also the recreation center.

If DCPS had the enrollment to support another school there, they would have renovated it by now. Better to use it than let it fall into further disrepair.

[Anonymous]

DC keeps approving HRCS for the middle and upper middle class white and brown families. Why not allow KIPP who caters to many middle and low income families. I mean if they are going to let Mudo expand then by all means let a actually successful school like KIPP replicate with a DCPS building.

[Anonymous]

No one went to Ferebee Hope as a DC public school anyway. Maybe the KIPP name will boost enrollment.

[Anonymous]

KIPP schools east of the river are some of the best options for families in ward 7 and 8. They have waitlists of hundreds of kids who want a seat. We need more great high schools and Ferebee is just sitting empty. Right now KIPP kids have to travel sometimes for hours to get to their current high school at union market. Having a ward 8 kipp high school would be great for kids and families. I’m unsure why there would be anything other than overwhelming support for this.
Also Kipp’s current high school is one of the only strong non-selective high school options in DC. Replicating the great stuff they’re doing so more kids have access to their curriculum and model is a win for everyone.
Why would anyone be outraged about more good school options?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:KIPP schools east of the river are some of the best options for families in ward 7 and 8. They have waitlists of hundreds of kids who want a seat. We need more great high schools and Ferebee is just sitting empty. Right now KIPP kids have to travel sometimes for hours to get to their current high school at union market. Having a ward 8 kipp high school would be great for kids and families. I’m unsure why there would be anything other than overwhelming support for this.
Also Kipp’s current high school is one of the only strong non-selective high school options in DC. Replicating the great stuff they’re doing so more kids have access to their curriculum and model is a win for everyone.
Why would anyone be outraged about more good school options?

Because we should be fixing the schools that we already have, rather than undermining them with new openings. Because it is a waste of money to operate so many half-empty schools. Because EOTR is already getting Bard and Latin II.

[Anonymous]

OP, get a grip. It's not like your precious dumplings are attending KIPP; what do you propose DC should do instead?

[Anonymous]

This is old news, but has always sounded like a good idea. I'm glad KIPP schools are available as on option.

Thanks, for the reminder, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KIPP schools east of the river are some of the best options for families in ward 7 and 8. They have waitlists of hundreds of kids who want a seat. We need more great high schools and Ferebee is just sitting empty. Right now KIPP kids have to travel sometimes for hours to get to their current high school at union market. Having a ward 8 kipp high school would be great for kids and families. I’m unsure why there would be anything other than overwhelming support for this.
Also Kipp’s current high school is one of the only strong non-selective high school options in DC. Replicating the great stuff they’re doing so more kids have access to their curriculum and model is a win for everyone.
Why would anyone be outraged about more good school options?

Because we should be fixing the schools that we already have, rather than undermining them with new openings. Because it is a waste of money to operate so many half-empty schools. Because EOTR is already getting Bard and Latin II.

Do you live EOTR? Have you enrolled your child in a comprehensive high school that isn't Wilson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KIPP schools east of the river are some of the best options for families in ward 7 and 8. They have waitlists of hundreds of kids who want a seat. We need more great high schools and Ferebee is just sitting empty. Right now KIPP kids have to travel sometimes for hours to get to their current high school at union market. Having a ward 8 kipp high school would be great for kids and families. I’m unsure why there would be anything other than overwhelming support for this.
Also Kipp’s current high school is one of the only strong non-selective high school options in DC. Replicating the great stuff they’re doing so more kids have access to their curriculum and model is a win for everyone.
Why would anyone be outraged about more good school options?

Because we should be fixing the schools that we already have, rather than undermining them with new openings. Because it is a waste of money to operate so many half-empty schools. Because EOTR is already getting Bard and Latin II.

Do you live EOTR? Have you enrolled your child in a comprehensive high school that isn't Wilson?

My children are too young, sorry. I just don't see how enrollment projections support three new high schools. I am all for quality EOTR but how is Latin and Bard together not enough to meet the need?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:KIPP schools east of the river are some of the best options for families in ward 7 and 8. They have waitlists of hundreds of kids who want a seat. We need more great high schools and Ferebee is just sitting empty. Right now KIPP kids have to travel sometimes for hours to get to their current high school at union market. Having a ward 8 kipp high school would be great for kids and families. I’m unsure why there would be anything other than overwhelming support for this.
Also Kipp’s current high school is one of the only strong non-selective high school options in DC. Replicating the great stuff they’re doing so more kids have access to their curriculum and model is a win for everyone.
Why would anyone be outraged about more good school options?

Curious to know more about KIPP's high school in case you have more to read. Seems to me like a good option as well, but I definitely would not send my kids there. They are, however, learning handwriting.

[Anonymous]

There aren't a lot of good high school options EOTR for non-selective schools - if your child has an IEP or other challenges and and won't get into Bard, your options for high school in ward 8 or 7 are very limited. Thurgood Marshall, maybe Friendship. Both have long long waitlist, and if kids don't get in they have to travel a long long way to go to a decent high school.

Right now selective high schools (Walls, Banneker, Bard, McKinley) in our city cream the strongest academic and behavioral students from our non-selective options leaving them to educate the rest. Even though it's non-selective KIPP high school still has AP classes and an honors program and athletics and arts, they also give students a ton of wraparound college and career support for free, something that a lot of families EOTR can't afford but that kids still deserve and need. I don't have kids at KIPP but if I lived EOTR I would send my kids there. I went to a KIPP fundraiser last year and did a tour of the high school and was really impressed with their program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There aren't a lot of good high school options EOTR for non-selective schools - if your child has an IEP or other challenges and and won't get into Bard, your options for high school in ward 8 or 7 are very limited. Thurgood Marshall, maybe Friendship. Both have long long waitlist, and if kids don't get in they have to travel a long long way to go to a decent high school.

Right now selective high schools (Walls, Banneker, Bard, McKinley) in our city cream the strongest academic and behavioral students from our non-selective options leaving them to educate the rest. Even though it's non-selective KIPP high school still has AP classes and an honors program and athletics and arts, they also give students a ton of wraparound college and career support for free, something that a lot of families EOTR can't afford but that kids still deserve and need. I don't have kids at KIPP but if I lived EOTR I would send my kids there. I went to a KIPP fundraiser last year and did a tour of the high school and was really impressed with their program.

KIPP and Latin II will both be open lottery, so why do we need both?