Bancroft-Specific Boundary Study Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone please tell me when the changes are likely to be made? Can we expect anything to happen before this coming school year in the fall? Is this several years down the line?

Not a Bancroft parent so I wasn’t listening super closely to that part of the meeting but IIRC phasing our deal was not discussed. They mentioned changing the neighborhood zone (cutting off the boundary further north) and annexing PK. I think there’s a slight phase in for all these boundary changes. Don’t think they’ll start 2024 but someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Once the Connecticut Ave bike lanes are finished it is going to make east-west travel across CT Ave challenging during the rush hours so a lot of families may actually prefer the logistics of Adams or other options.

Oh it’s you again. Seriously, the bike lanes are not the problem that you hope they will be.

Not me. The DC police said just last week that these lanes will increase congestion on Connecticut Ave and an elevated level of collisions.

Ah yes, noted planning and transportation experts MPD.

MPD is the only branch of DC government worth listening to. They told us three years ago what life would be like today. I believe their predictions.

[Anonymous]

Why do you think we’re like this? Tend to state a preference until it comes to affecting us? Liberal with others, conservative about our own privileges.

[Anonymous]

The boundary changes don’t go into effect until the 2025/2026 school year

[Anonymous]

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ROOSEVELT IS FAR MORE CROWDED THAN JACKSON REED.

Huh?

Roosevelt has about 900 students and capacity for 1200.

JR has about 2300 students and capacity for 1840.

[Anonymous]

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ROOSEVELT IS FAR MORE CROWDED THAN JACKSON REED.

Huh?

Roosevelt has about 900 students and capacity for 1200.

JR has about 2300 students and capacity for 1840.

Lol, thank you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not the prior guy but I think Bancroft feeding to MacFarland has logic on its side and demographics against it. If that’s how you want this to shake out, fine. But the logic is pretty strong for geography and programming.

ROOSEVELT IS FAR MORE CROWDED THAN JACKSON REED.

You info is outdated. Roosevelt Stay moved to a new building and took several hundred students with it.

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Anonymous wrote:chec for immersion and Deal for traditional middle school seems to be working fairly well.

Why not just CHEC? Clear feeder pattern and very close. It isn’t a full immersion school. It is Tubman’s only feed, so it works for non-immersion kids.

The middle school is dual language, and that is the only option. The Tubman and HD Cooke students often have a much more difficult experience than those coming from Marie Reed or Bancroft because they have to take content classes in Spanish with no foundation in the language.

So English-only elementary schools feed a bilingual middle school and a bilingual elementary school feeds an English-only middle school? And there are no English-only alternatives for Tubman and Cooke? That is messed up right there.

I'm looking at the slides from the advisory committee meeting in early December and seeing a scenario where Tubman and Cooke add a dual language track (slide 31). Is this for real? I had no idea this was a potential option.

[Anonymous]

It's weird, though, if Roosevelt was less crowded than Jackson Reed, I feel like a lot of people would say "see, everyone really wants to go to Jackson Reed, not Roosevelt."

It feels like the Supreme Court. Supposedly there are actual laws, precedents, and rules of decision, and yet somehow with the right people on the Court everything turns out like the Federalist Society wants it to...

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Anonymous wrote:On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

Bancroft’s former principal is now Cardozo’s principal. It’s unfortunate Cardozo hasn’t enjoyed the same “glow up” under his leadership.

That’s because he probably had nothing to do with it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

Bancroft’s former principal is now Cardozo’s principal. It’s unfortunate Cardozo hasn’t enjoyed the same “glow up” under his leadership.

That’s because he probably had nothing to do with it

Demographics is destiny. Seriously. If you get upper middle class families into your school, things go well. If not, they go south. Everything else is noise. The value-add of DCPS and even the DC charter system is minimal at best. Everything is selection effects. Everything else is marginal at best. Basically the game is (1) does your catchment area have said families and (2) can you convince them to come.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this to the top of the forum. Please post updates from and discuss tonight's DME/PTO meeting at the school if you attend!

[Anonymous]

Any updates from the meeting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

Bancroft’s former principal is now Cardozo’s principal. It’s unfortunate Cardozo hasn’t enjoyed the same “glow up” under his leadership.

That’s because he probably had nothing to do with it

Demographics is destiny. Seriously. If you get upper middle class families into your school, things go well. If not, they go south. Everything else is noise. The value-add of DCPS and even the DC charter system is minimal at best. Everything is selection effects. Everything else is marginal at best. Basically the game is (1) does your catchment area have said families and (2) can you convince them to come.

Give a Deal feed to Raymond or Powell and watch the amazing profess that happens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the linked poll above, the feeder options are:

-keep Deal/J-R as well as feed to a dual language MS
- Bancroft -> CHEC -> CHEC or Cardozo
- Bancroft -> McFarland -> Roosevelt
- Bancroft -> yet to exist Euclid MS with possible dual language option -> Cardozo
- Bancroft -> Adams -> J-R

Bancroft’s former principal is now Cardozo’s principal. It’s unfortunate Cardozo hasn’t enjoyed the same “glow up” under his leadership.

That’s because he probably had nothing to do with it

Demographics is destiny. Seriously. If you get upper middle class families into your school, things go well. If not, they go south. Everything else is noise. The value-add of DCPS and even the DC charter system is minimal at best. Everything is selection effects. Everything else is marginal at best. Basically the game is (1) does your catchment area have said families and (2) can you convince them to come.

Give a Deal feed to Raymond or Powell and watch the amazing profess that happens.

+1. The difference between Powell and Bancroft is the Deal feed.