Then 2023 Lottery disappointment thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our 5th grader is miserable at her current school due to bullying. We were waitlisted across the board for privates and the best WL we have is for the lottery is above 60.

I guess we’ll look at moving but that’s easier said than done. I don’t know what we’ll do. We feel stuck.

I'm so sorry. Hugs to you. I'm very sorry that your daughter is having a bad year. You're a good mom for working to get her out of an unhealthy situation. Sending you good vibes.

Agree. Bullying and emotional distress are definitely reasons why I would move and not look back if I found my child in a similar situation. It's awful that you don't have another option at the moment. I'm sorry. You're a great mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straight A student at Deal. Waitlisted at privates, waitlisted at walls, number too high to get in. Headed to Jackson Reed and so disappointed. DC is so bored and unchallenged at Deal and I worry it’ll be more of the same at JR. I feel like we failed DC. We are willing to make the financial sacrifice for private but I feel like that whole process was a waste of time and that system is rigged against kids coming from DCPS unless they are a star athlete or have another “hook”.

Thank you for letting me join the pity party.

What number waitlist at Walls? FWIW it really sounds like JR has lots of good options for high flyers - and a strong cohort at that level. I don't think your kid will be bored there!

For what it's worth, there are many of us on here who would have been happy to have JR as a by right option while going through the application process. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

I have a 7th grader at a feeder MS to Eastern and this is the first I'm hearing about it. They really need to do a better job or advertising since it's not even on our list for next year at this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

I have a 7th grader at a feeder MS to Eastern and this is the first I'm hearing about it. They really need to do a better job or advertising since it's not even on our list for next year at this time.

If you swing by one of their open houses or reach out to any of the parents that are currently there, they could tell you more about it. They also have information on the website.
https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456727&type=d
My son is at Eliot Hine, and there there are there are multiple families with older siblings already at Eastern and other current eighth graders who are planning to go there next year.
I think some of the increasing IB participation has come from Maury parents who opted to walk up the street to middle school instead of trekking across town , then just across the street to high school. The proximity is really great, and not sure if your kid is at Eliot Hine, but because the middle school is right by the high school, they share fields and collaborate on things. (Ex some of the Eastern matching band participated in one song at the band performance last fall). Note, we did not come to EH from Maury, so that proximity observation may not be true, just a speculation from the outside. And not the proximity is all that matters, there are some other great things going on at Eliot that I think is attracting more inbounds participation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

I have a 7th grader at a feeder MS to Eastern and this is the first I'm hearing about it. They really need to do a better job or advertising since it's not even on our list for next year at this time.

If you swing by one of their open houses or reach out to any of the parents that are currently there, they could tell you more about it. They also have information on the website.
https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456727&type=d
My son is at Eliot Hine, and there there are there are multiple families with older siblings already at Eastern and other current eighth graders who are planning to go there next year.
I think some of the increasing IB participation has come from Maury parents who opted to walk up the street to middle school instead of trekking across town , then just across the street to high school. The proximity is really great, and not sure if your kid is at Eliot Hine, but because the middle school is right by the high school, they share fields and collaborate on things. (Ex some of the Eastern matching band participated in one song at the band performance last fall). Note, we did not come to EH from Maury, so that proximity observation may not be true, just a speculation from the outside. And not the proximity is all that matters, there are some other great things going on at Eliot that I think is attracting more inbounds participation.

We're at Jefferson but this is good to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

I have a 7th grader at a feeder MS to Eastern and this is the first I'm hearing about it. They really need to do a better job or advertising since it's not even on our list for next year at this time.

If you swing by one of their open houses or reach out to any of the parents that are currently there, they could tell you more about it. They also have information on the website.
https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456727&type=d
My son is at Eliot Hine, and there there are there are multiple families with older siblings already at Eastern and other current eighth graders who are planning to go there next year.
I think some of the increasing IB participation has come from Maury parents who opted to walk up the street to middle school instead of trekking across town , then just across the street to high school. The proximity is really great, and not sure if your kid is at Eliot Hine, but because the middle school is right by the high school, they share fields and collaborate on things. (Ex some of the Eastern matching band participated in one song at the band performance last fall). Note, we did not come to EH from Maury, so that proximity observation may not be true, just a speculation from the outside. And not the proximity is all that matters, there are some other great things going on at Eliot that I think is attracting more inbounds participation.

We're at Jefferson but this is good to know.

Correction: EPIC is application - not test-in. Per Eastern "We look for strong grades, a strong Reading Inventory score, PARCC
scores, positive teacher references, and effort put into the written response of the application."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:leveled classes represent an attempt to meet students who are at a range of different abilities at the level where they are at without fully preventing students from moving between the groups. its a huge improvement over simply teaching to the middle. i dont fully understand the its not truly accelerated criticism against grouping the top cohort of kids together in one class in order to be able to provide that class with some additional challenge.

Ok but have you actually looked at the abysmal stats of some of the DCPS middle and high schools??

Take Eastern where in 2019, in math 2% were on grade level or above. This 2% were most likely on grade level. Then Covid hit and numbers got worst which I’m not going to spend time to drill down.

So there is no wide range of abilities. All the kids are below grade level. There is no critical number of kids to have a class even on grade level and if you have a high performing kid forget about it.

Anecdotally, I've heard of a couple more capitol hill kids using eastern since 2019. It still wouldn't be high on our list. But, in terms of forming a higher performing cohort within the school (often an initial step in improving), I'm hoping for the neighborhood's sake that has progressed since 2019 even if some of the lower performing students fell further behind during covid (which should also be addressed).

Eastern is actively trying to increase it's IB participation rate and has introduced a test in program called EPIC within the school. It will be interesting to see if that attracts more Hill families.

I have a 7th grader at a feeder MS to Eastern and this is the first I'm hearing about it. They really need to do a better job or advertising since it's not even on our list for next year at this time.

If you swing by one of their open houses or reach out to any of the parents that are currently there, they could tell you more about it. They also have information on the website.
https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456727&type=d
My son is at Eliot Hine, and there there are there are multiple families with older siblings already at Eastern and other current eighth graders who are planning to go there next year.
I think some of the increasing IB participation has come from Maury parents who opted to walk up the street to middle school instead of trekking across town , then just across the street to high school. The proximity is really great, and not sure if your kid is at Eliot Hine, but because the middle school is right by the high school, they share fields and collaborate on things. (Ex some of the Eastern matching band participated in one song at the band performance last fall). Note, we did not come to EH from Maury, so that proximity observation may not be true, just a speculation from the outside. And not the proximity is all that matters, there are some other great things going on at Eliot that I think is attracting more inbounds participation.

We're at Jefferson but this is good to know.

Correction: EPIC is application - not test-in. Per Eastern "We look for strong grades, a strong Reading Inventory score, PARCC
scores, positive teacher references, and effort put into the written response of the application."

Still RI & PARCC scores make this more objective than Walls, which is really something. Now, before people jump down my throat, no doubt the standard to be met here is wayyyyy lower. That said, I think Walls could learn from this admissions approach if it refuses to bring back the test.