Roosevelt High School in Petworth?

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What would be great would be student shuttle hubs at various points in the city. For example, an elementary hub that picks up at designated times at Tenleytown and/or a few other stops that are central to where the biggest proportion of the commuting populations are coming from, then follows a set route to each of the designated elementary schools on that route. Repeat for middle school and high school (particularly for MacArthur). Then neighborhood parents can coordinate carpools to various hubs and feel comfortable putting younger kids on the bus. Even better if drop off points are outside of Ward 3, then school commuters don't have to go far out of their own neighborhoods at all. Like the Deal buses, but designated ONLY for students and drop off at the MacArthur schools as well as J-R schools.

The Ward 3 NIMBY is missing the mark not because it's inherently wrong to dislike the reliance on cars for school drop off and pickup that DC has created, but because PP doesn't realize that all of us who do that commute HAVE considered transit and would love a viable transit option. But DC just doesn't care (probably because the volume of cross town school commute traffic is actually very low) and is actually proposing to cut existing service.

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Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

+1. This city is full of progressives who “love their neighborhood” and crave “diversity.” But when it really matters. When it’s about their most important skin in the game. They’re driving their Prius across the park every day and right past the neighbors that they “love.”

Where do you send your kids, PP?

How many of these PPs judging EOTP people were rich enough to buy WOTP and would never consider slumming it with us? It's really not a good look and makes me glad I live EOTP.

Are you sure you’re glad you live EOTP? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

DP, but I’m glad we live EOTP to balance out the influence of privileged jerks like you. My elementary kids have more social awareness and nuance in their thinking than you seem to. And in middle school we’ll finally be able to carpool with neighbors!

And there it is.
Elementary school parents who know best.
Be sure to let us know in a few years how things are going.

Sure, if you say so. Mine are second and fourth grade and we’ve been commuting to Ward 3 for years now. We’ve been in our house for 15 years and being able to catch a ride back across the park with a friend/friendly neighbor will make it easier, not harder, once we hit middle school. But I’m sure you know better since you surely live in our community and attend similar schools.

Thanks for all the traffic and pollution in Ward 3. Please consider transit in the future.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Car - 20-25 minutes each way, usually 45 minutes round trip unless I need to go inside for some reason. Twice a day, obviously.
Bus - two buses taking approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes assuming no delays or missed transfers, averaging 3 hours round trip once you factor in waiting for the next bus. Twice a day, obviously.

You don't like it, feel free to lobby for designated bus routes that are safe and accessible for kids across the city (or you know, school buses). But if you actually live in Ward 3 you know that 95% of the traffic comes from MD and VA commuters and other Ward 3 residents. People schlepping kids to school causes a negligible increase in the traffic volume. Or just go ahead and move. You sound silly whining about the very predictable effects of the lottery system of the school district you choose to live in.

Can’t you guys organize a bus for the neighborhood? We did.

From what neighborhood to where?

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From the black neighborhood to the white one. For the kids who matter.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

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Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

+1. This city is full of progressives who “love their neighborhood” and crave “diversity.” But when it really matters. When it’s about their most important skin in the game. They’re driving their Prius across the park every day and right past the neighbors that they “love.”

Where do you send your kids, PP?

How many of these PPs judging EOTP people were rich enough to buy WOTP and would never consider slumming it with us? It's really not a good look and makes me glad I live EOTP.

Are you sure you’re glad you live EOTP? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

DP, but I’m glad we live EOTP to balance out the influence of privileged jerks like you. My elementary kids have more social awareness and nuance in their thinking than you seem to. And in middle school we’ll finally be able to carpool with neighbors!

And there it is.
Elementary school parents who know best.
Be sure to let us know in a few years how things are going.

Sure, if you say so. Mine are second and fourth grade and we’ve been commuting to Ward 3 for years now. We’ve been in our house for 15 years and being able to catch a ride back across the park with a friend/friendly neighbor will make it easier, not harder, once we hit middle school. But I’m sure you know better since you surely live in our community and attend similar schools.

Thanks for all the traffic and pollution in Ward 3. Please consider transit in the future.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Car - 20-25 minutes each way, usually 45 minutes round trip unless I need to go inside for some reason. Twice a day, obviously.
Bus - two buses taking approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes assuming no delays or missed transfers, averaging 3 hours round trip once you factor in waiting for the next bus. Twice a day, obviously.

You don't like it, feel free to lobby for designated bus routes that are safe and accessible for kids across the city (or you know, school buses). But if you actually live in Ward 3 you know that 95% of the traffic comes from MD and VA commuters and other Ward 3 residents. People schlepping kids to school causes a negligible increase in the traffic volume. Or just go ahead and move. You sound silly whining about the very predictable effects of the lottery system of the school district you choose to live in.

Can’t you guys organize a bus for the neighborhood? We did.

From what neighborhood to where?

Shepherd park to ward 3 elementary school. I didn’t organize it, but it was a normal thing someone on the school listserve had handled (and then passed off) for years.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

Falling behind again in 3rd grade is not ideal, but it's 1000x better than being continually behind in k-2nd. Being on track through 2nd grade means that the Headstart kids are actually learning to read, which is foundational to the ability to catch up later.

Of course pk3&4 cannot fully erase the deficits caused by unstable homes from pk3-12th grade, but it's still well worth the effort and pays serious dividends.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

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At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school

Individual teachers and individual principals, might not be able to. But a school district or a country can. Those kids need longer school days and longer school years, as much time as possible in a positive, safe, nurturing environment with ample free nutritious actual food. These kids need to be supported by adults who care about their jobs, care about not screaming profanities at children, who don't smoke weed, who recognize they as adults cannot spend any time on social media while in the school building. These kids need out-of-school programs staffed with young adults with the same values as the school staff described above. This can be achieved with investments, especially if those investments aren't stolen or squandered by corruption.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

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At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school

Individual teachers and individual principals, might not be able to. But a school district or a country can. Those kids need longer school days and longer school years, as much time as possible in a positive, safe, nurturing environment with ample free nutritious actual food. These kids need to be supported by adults who care about their jobs, care about not screaming profanities at children, who don't smoke weed, who recognize they as adults cannot spend any time on social media while in the school building. These kids need out-of-school programs staffed with young adults with the same values as the school staff described above. This can be achieved with investments, especially if those investments aren't stolen or squandered by corruption.

You forgot to add if they don’t have their schools shut down for more than an entire year.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

Anonymous wrote:
At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school

Individual teachers and individual principals, might not be able to. But a school district or a country can. Those kids need longer school days and longer school years, as much time as possible in a positive, safe, nurturing environment with ample free nutritious actual food. These kids need to be supported by adults who care about their jobs, care about not screaming profanities at children, who don't smoke weed, who recognize they as adults cannot spend any time on social media while in the school building. These kids need out-of-school programs staffed with young adults with the same values as the school staff described above. This can be achieved with investments, especially if those investments aren't stolen or squandered by corruption.

This is all great if the kids come to school. Attendance for many kids who have turbulent home lives is awful. All these programs sounds great but if a kid misses 40% of the school year or is two hours tardy every day, this won’t help.

And who is going to staff these longer school days and school years?

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Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

+1. This city is full of progressives who “love their neighborhood” and crave “diversity.” But when it really matters. When it’s about their most important skin in the game. They’re driving their Prius across the park every day and right past the neighbors that they “love.”

Where do you send your kids, PP?

How many of these PPs judging EOTP people were rich enough to buy WOTP and would never consider slumming it with us? It's really not a good look and makes me glad I live EOTP.

Are you sure you’re glad you live EOTP? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

DP, but I’m glad we live EOTP to balance out the influence of privileged jerks like you. My elementary kids have more social awareness and nuance in their thinking than you seem to. And in middle school we’ll finally be able to carpool with neighbors!

And there it is.
Elementary school parents who know best.
Be sure to let us know in a few years how things are going.

Sure, if you say so. Mine are second and fourth grade and we’ve been commuting to Ward 3 for years now. We’ve been in our house for 15 years and being able to catch a ride back across the park with a friend/friendly neighbor will make it easier, not harder, once we hit middle school. But I’m sure you know better since you surely live in our community and attend similar schools.

Thanks for all the traffic and pollution in Ward 3. Please consider transit in the future.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Car - 20-25 minutes each way, usually 45 minutes round trip unless I need to go inside for some reason. Twice a day, obviously.
Bus - two buses taking approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes assuming no delays or missed transfers, averaging 3 hours round trip once you factor in waiting for the next bus. Twice a day, obviously.

You don't like it, feel free to lobby for designated bus routes that are safe and accessible for kids across the city (or you know, school buses). But if you actually live in Ward 3 you know that 95% of the traffic comes from MD and VA commuters and other Ward 3 residents. People schlepping kids to school causes a negligible increase in the traffic volume. Or just go ahead and move. You sound silly whining about the very predictable effects of the lottery system of the school district you choose to live in.

Or you could go to your neighborhood school?

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Anonymous wrote:What would be great would be student shuttle hubs at various points in the city. For example, an elementary hub that picks up at designated times at Tenleytown and/or a few other stops that are central to where the biggest proportion of the commuting populations are coming from, then follows a set route to each of the designated elementary schools on that route. Repeat for middle school and high school (particularly for MacArthur). Then neighborhood parents can coordinate carpools to various hubs and feel comfortable putting younger kids on the bus. Even better if drop off points are outside of Ward 3, then school commuters don't have to go far out of their own neighborhoods at all. Like the Deal buses, but designated ONLY for students and drop off at the MacArthur schools as well as J-R schools.

The Ward 3 NIMBY is missing the mark not because it's inherently wrong to dislike the reliance on cars for school drop off and pickup that DC has created, but because PP doesn't realize that all of us who do that commute HAVE considered transit and would love a viable transit option. But DC just doesn't care (probably because the volume of cross town school commute traffic is actually very low) and is actually proposing to cut existing service.

DC forced you to enter the school lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

+1. This city is full of progressives who “love their neighborhood” and crave “diversity.” But when it really matters. When it’s about their most important skin in the game. They’re driving their Prius across the park every day and right past the neighbors that they “love.”

Where do you send your kids, PP?

How many of these PPs judging EOTP people were rich enough to buy WOTP and would never consider slumming it with us? It's really not a good look and makes me glad I live EOTP.

Are you sure you’re glad you live EOTP? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

DP, but I’m glad we live EOTP to balance out the influence of privileged jerks like you. My elementary kids have more social awareness and nuance in their thinking than you seem to. And in middle school we’ll finally be able to carpool with neighbors!

And there it is.
Elementary school parents who know best.
Be sure to let us know in a few years how things are going.

Sure, if you say so. Mine are second and fourth grade and we’ve been commuting to Ward 3 for years now. We’ve been in our house for 15 years and being able to catch a ride back across the park with a friend/friendly neighbor will make it easier, not harder, once we hit middle school. But I’m sure you know better since you surely live in our community and attend similar schools.

Thanks for all the traffic and pollution in Ward 3. Please consider transit in the future.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Car - 20-25 minutes each way, usually 45 minutes round trip unless I need to go inside for some reason. Twice a day, obviously.
Bus - two buses taking approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes assuming no delays or missed transfers, averaging 3 hours round trip once you factor in waiting for the next bus. Twice a day, obviously.

You don't like it, feel free to lobby for designated bus routes that are safe and accessible for kids across the city (or you know, school buses). But if you actually live in Ward 3 you know that 95% of the traffic comes from MD and VA commuters and other Ward 3 residents. People schlepping kids to school causes a negligible increase in the traffic volume. Or just go ahead and move. You sound silly whining about the very predictable effects of the lottery system of the school district you choose to live in.

Or you could go to your neighborhood school?

No

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Anonymous wrote:Just so we’re clear, not a single poster yet (and we’re on page 4) has ever had a kid at Roosevelt.

OP you are on the wrong forum. DCUM is for rich and/or white folks who say they’re liberal and open-minded and in real life are great at talking the talk but never, ever walk the walk.

+1. This city is full of progressives who “love their neighborhood” and crave “diversity.” But when it really matters. When it’s about their most important skin in the game. They’re driving their Prius across the park every day and right past the neighbors that they “love.”

Where do you send your kids, PP?

How many of these PPs judging EOTP people were rich enough to buy WOTP and would never consider slumming it with us? It's really not a good look and makes me glad I live EOTP.

Are you sure you’re glad you live EOTP? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

DP, but I’m glad we live EOTP to balance out the influence of privileged jerks like you. My elementary kids have more social awareness and nuance in their thinking than you seem to. And in middle school we’ll finally be able to carpool with neighbors!

And there it is.
Elementary school parents who know best.
Be sure to let us know in a few years how things are going.

Sure, if you say so. Mine are second and fourth grade and we’ve been commuting to Ward 3 for years now. We’ve been in our house for 15 years and being able to catch a ride back across the park with a friend/friendly neighbor will make it easier, not harder, once we hit middle school. But I’m sure you know better since you surely live in our community and attend similar schools.

Thanks for all the traffic and pollution in Ward 3. Please consider transit in the future.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Car - 20-25 minutes each way, usually 45 minutes round trip unless I need to go inside for some reason. Twice a day, obviously.
Bus - two buses taking approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes assuming no delays or missed transfers, averaging 3 hours round trip once you factor in waiting for the next bus. Twice a day, obviously.

You don't like it, feel free to lobby for designated bus routes that are safe and accessible for kids across the city (or you know, school buses). But if you actually live in Ward 3 you know that 95% of the traffic comes from MD and VA commuters and other Ward 3 residents. People schlepping kids to school causes a negligible increase in the traffic volume. Or just go ahead and move. You sound silly whining about the very predictable effects of the lottery system of the school district you choose to live in.

Or you could go to your neighborhood school?

No

+1. Nobody is complaining here except the Ward 3 NIMBY.

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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want.

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.

Say what?! You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix! PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko. That's not what a college does.

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.

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At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school

Individual teachers and individual principals, might not be able to. But a school district or a country can. Those kids need longer school days and longer school years, as much time as possible in a positive, safe, nurturing environment with ample free nutritious actual food. These kids need to be supported by adults who care about their jobs, care about not screaming profanities at children, who don't smoke weed, who recognize they as adults cannot spend any time on social media while in the school building. These kids need out-of-school programs staffed with young adults with the same values as the school staff described above. This can be achieved with investments, especially if those investments aren't stolen or squandered by corruption.

This is all great if the kids come to school. Attendance for many kids who have turbulent home lives is awful. All these programs sounds great but if a kid misses 40% of the school year or is two hours tardy every day, this won’t help.

And who is going to staff these longer school days and school years?

DC would be ecstatic if kids only missed 40% of the school year