New Jackson-Reed HS (Wilson HS) School Principal - Sah Brown from Eastern High School

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So far this is what is apparent with DCUM and high schools:

- Black Male from a school with challenges is taking over "my" somewhat affluent school is awful for "me." If he can lead a school with enormous challenges, maybe he can do good things at a school with fewer challenges. Not part of the thought process.

- Walls now sucks because the test has been eliminated. I really don't have have evidence but it has to be, right?

-Banneker's SAT and IB scores suck so it's not good enough. Why doesn't it do more to attract "me?"

-We're going private..Why is so expensive and so competitive...We didn't get in anywhere..We're out, moving to the suburbs..This sucks too-same problems we left..


SMH

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Anonymous wrote:So far this is what is apparent with DCUM and high schools:

- Black Male from a school with challenges is taking over "my" somewhat affluent school is awful for "me." If he can lead a school with enormous challenges, maybe he can do good things at a school with fewer challenges. Not part of the thought process.

- Walls now sucks because the test has been eliminated. I really don't have have evidence but it has to be, right?

-Banneker's SAT and IB scores suck so it's not good enough. Why doesn't it do more to attract "me?"

-We're going private..Why is so expensive and so competitive...We didn't get in anywhere..We're out, moving to the suburbs..This sucks too-same problems we left..


SMH

As far as I can tell, none of the negative comments on this thread have come from JR parents. They just seem to come from the general decentralized DCUM angry mob.

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Jesus, this thread. Seven pages of assumptions and escalating ridiculous claims stemming from one post from one parent who meet the guy once and didn't send their kids to his school.

DCUM at its most absurd and useless.

[Anonymous]

I thought Wilson/Jackson Reed is over enrolled
How is anyone getting an out of bounds spot?

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus, this thread. Seven pages of assumptions and escalating ridiculous claims stemming from one post from one parent who meet the guy once and didn't send their kids to his school.

DCUM at its most absurd and useless.

Or the hill person who saw him at an ANC meeting and he seemed nice

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Wilson/Jackson Reed is over enrolled
How is anyone getting an out of bounds spot?

Mostly Hyde lottery spots (and residual Hardy lottery spots, though that is now ending)

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We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.

So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.

ha ha, normally I dislike this kind of invective, but seems to hit the mark.

PP who talked to Brown. My spouse and I are people of color who come from working-class backgrounds. We attended college on full Pell Grants.

We wouldn't have bothered going to Eastern to speak to Brown if we hadn't been trying to keep an open mind. What are you posters slamming us celebrating? Brown's able leadership at Eastern?

BOOM! There it is. Never fails that when an entitled DCUM snowflake gets called out they magically turn black.

I thought the exact same thing! LOL!

It amazes me that you think OP is lying when she says that she is black. If that’s your best response to her post is actually denying what she is saying, you have got a whole lot disappointment coming. LOL!

PP didn't say she was black. The reference was to person of color...maybe biracial, Latino, Native American or Asian. The message I take from her story is, if you're IB for Eastern and UMC, don't bother looking into the IBD there, whatever color you may be. Not just a waste of time, but an invitation to a cynical experience, regardless of who's responsible for Eastern's catastrophic academics and IB enrollment.

The many nasty and presumptuous posts on this thread in defense of yet another choice of Wilson/Jackson-Reed principal that can't possibly sit well with most IB families is yet another pointed reminder of how Mayoral control of schools has outstayed its welcome in the District.

How on earth could they possibly have enough (or any) information less than 24 hours after the announcement to have formed any sort of opinion? Or are you talking about all of those JR parents who also send kids to Eastern so they have personal experience with him? Here's what they know so far:

1. He's a black man
2. He is coming from a DCPS school with a 99% minority enrollment
3. He's coming from a school with very few UMC families

I am racking my brain for why you think "this can't possibly sit well". Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Multiple posters have offered negative impressions of him in a professional context, raising red flags in regard to his willingness to serve high SES in-boundary families in DCPS schools. He had no track record in leading communities or affluent students, from what I've been able to tell, no interest. Watch out.

On a bright note, we're going to be done with him in Ward 6 shortly. You're very welcome to him, he can "sit well" with you guys for years.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what the OP wanted is what happened at Hardy circa 2007 in the Michelle Rhee era, when half of Hardy was OOB and Principal Pope literally went knocking on IB doors passing out flyers trying to recruit UMC families. Guess what? It worked. Now Hardy is majority UMC and white again - obviously, those OOB families are now stuck back in SE.

IF Eliot-Hine did something similar, they could probably have a pretty decent MS with a diverse cohort of kids. After all, the IB kids have been together and doing fine at all the feeder schools - Miner, Maury, Payne. The problem lies when those IB kids don't show up, they fill the school with OOB coming from failing schools, and well, the median scores go lower instead of higher.[/quote

HS is a different kettle of fish from MS where in-boundary enrollment is concerned.

With Hardy, you had a well-established HS on the other side, the highest-performing neighborhood HS in the District by a long shot. Eliot-Hine, Stuart Hobson and Jefferson Academy can't attract many IB UMC families because Eastern is such a dead end as much as anything else.

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In general, the people I know who dealt with Brown were confused about why he proactively reached out seemingly to try to get/generate ideas for IB buy-in for the school and then dismissed any and all ideas he received completely out of hand (including relatively low stress/low cost ways to get IB ES families in to see/experience the school... not just fairy tale suggestions like create a magnet program).

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Anonymous wrote:So far this is what is apparent with DCUM and high schools:

- Black Male from a school with challenges is taking over "my" somewhat affluent school is awful for "me." If he can lead a school with enormous challenges, maybe he can do good things at a school with fewer challenges. Not part of the thought process.

- Walls now sucks because the test has been eliminated. I really don't have have evidence but it has to be, right?

-Banneker's SAT and IB scores suck so it's not good enough. Why doesn't it do more to attract "me?"

-We're going private..Why is so expensive and so competitive...We didn't get in anywhere..We're out, moving to the suburbs..This sucks too-same problems we left..


SMH

Agree with your assessment above 100%!! Also a Banneker parent. I stopped reading Banneker threads. Posters are racist and totally stupid. And are so sure of their beliefs but don’t have a kid there. I couldn’t take the level of ignorance anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus, this thread. Seven pages of assumptions and escalating ridiculous claims stemming from one post from one parent who meet the guy once and didn't send their kids to his school.

DCUM at its most absurd and useless.

Amen!

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Anonymous wrote:So far this is what is apparent with DCUM and high schools:

- Black Male from a school with challenges is taking over "my" somewhat affluent school is awful for "me." If he can lead a school with enormous challenges, maybe he can do good things at a school with fewer challenges. Not part of the thought process.

- Walls now sucks because the test has been eliminated. I really don't have have evidence but it has to be, right?

-Banneker's SAT and IB scores suck so it's not good enough. Why doesn't it do more to attract "me?"

-We're going private..Why is so expensive and so competitive...We didn't get in anywhere..We're out, moving to the suburbs..This sucks too-same problems we left..


SMH

Agree with your assessment above 100%!! Also a Banneker parent. I stopped reading Banneker threads. Posters are racist and totally stupid. And are so sure of their beliefs but don’t have a kid there. I couldn’t take the level of ignorance anymore.

There's one person who is responsible for a lot of the anti-Banneker stuff. And they're coming from a really specific place. They're also anti-BASIS.

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, Sah Brown is a tall, dark skinned black man. That may be informing the perceived lack of deference that was shown to the IB Mommy who wanted to have her ass kissed and some of the unease at having a black man from a school with poor kids taking over JR. The subtext here is "Can a black man really understand the UMC needs of our JR population?"

Stop your angry, twisted race-baiting. It belongs in a century gone by.

The mom asked for stats the principal would have had in his head. How do requests for stats comprise ass kissing? The true subtext is, DCPS, up your game to make neighborhood schools just that, schools most neighborhood families embrace with confidence. Enough Easterns already. This candidate doesn't impress through and through. His race is immaterial to reasonable, thoughtful ed stakeholders in the District (read the great majority of said stakeholders).

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No kidding. It's as though huge swaths of DC residents *want* their kids to be illiterate and innumerate, or at least prefer that to having a school system address the "special needs" of people who aren't low SES and well below grade level.

So now we have an announcement that a qualified black man was hired as principal in Ward 3 which leads the completely rational parents of DCUM jump to you must want your kids to be "illiterate and innumerate." I hate it here.

Qualified to head up JR only in the realm of utter mediocrity. That's all he and his track record are. I see nothing exceptional in this candidate. Could care less about the black man component.

If he didn't have much success at Eastern, why send him to the largest HS in DC?

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, Sah Brown is a tall, dark skinned black man. That may be informing the perceived lack of deference that was shown to the IB Mommy who wanted to have her ass kissed and some of the unease at having a black man from a school with poor kids taking over JR. The subtext here is "Can a black man really understand the UMC needs of our JR population?"

Stop your angry, twisted race-baiting. It belongs in a century gone by.

The mom asked for stats the principal would have had in his head. How do requests for stats comprise ass kissing? The true subtext is, DCPS, up your game to make neighborhood schools just that, schools most neighborhood families embrace with confidence. Enough Easterns already. This candidate doesn't impress through and through. His race is immaterial to reasonable, thoughtful ed stakeholders in the District (read the great majority of said stakeholders).

n

No kidding. It's as though huge swaths of DC residents *want* their kids to be illiterate and innumerate, or at least prefer that to having a school system address the "special needs" of people who aren't low SES and well below grade level.

So now we have an announcement that a qualified black man was hired as principal in Ward 3 which leads the completely rational parents of DCUM jump to you must want your kids to be "illiterate and innumerate." I hate it here.

Qualified to head up JR only in the realm of utter mediocrity. That's all he and his track record are. I see nothing exceptional in this candidate. Could care less about the black man component.

If he didn't have much success at Eastern, why send him to the largest HS in DC?

Bc most people don’t measure success the way the sheep of DCUM do

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Anonymous wrote:For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, Sah Brown is a tall, dark skinned black man. That may be informing the perceived lack of deference that was shown to the IB Mommy who wanted to have her ass kissed and some of the unease at having a black man from a school with poor kids taking over JR. The subtext here is "Can a black man really understand the UMC needs of our JR population?"

Stop your angry, twisted race-baiting. It belongs in a century gone by.

The mom asked for stats the principal would have had in his head. How do requests for stats comprise ass kissing? The true subtext is, DCPS, up your game to make neighborhood schools just that, schools most neighborhood families embrace with confidence. Enough Easterns already. This candidate doesn't impress through and through. His race is immaterial to reasonable, thoughtful ed stakeholders in the District (read the great majority of said stakeholders).

n

No kidding. It's as though huge swaths of DC residents *want* their kids to be illiterate and innumerate, or at least prefer that to having a school system address the "special needs" of people who aren't low SES and well below grade level.

So now we have an announcement that a qualified black man was hired as principal in Ward 3 which leads the completely rational parents of DCUM jump to you must want your kids to be "illiterate and innumerate." I hate it here.

Qualified to head up JR only in the realm of utter mediocrity. That's all he and his track record are. I see nothing exceptional in this candidate. Could care less about the black man component.

If he didn't have much success at Eastern, why send him to the largest HS in DC?

Bc most people don’t measure success the way the sheep of DCUM do

Explain to us what metrics you are using that suggest Eastern is a high quality school