anyone getting call backs for DESA?

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

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No news from Hardy dropoff this morning, when the escalation was threatened. Our DESA student reports that no one there knows anything about it.

The general safety of the school benefits from how compartmentalized the departments are. If dance kids are beefing with other schools, your kid who is not in dance might never know.

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Anonymous wrote:No news from Hardy dropoff this morning, when the escalation was threatened. Our DESA student reports that no one there knows anything about it.

The general safety of the school benefits from how compartmentalized the departments are. If dance kids are beefing with other schools, your kid who is not in dance might never know.

There were MPD cars outside DESA today at drop off

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That was part of the threat response. Good on them.

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Anonymous wrote:That was part of the threat response. Good on them.

The bigger concern is how much more common threats (both in person and virtual) are becoming. It is imperative to take each one seriously, but it also takes a lot of time and makes me worry a real threat/danger will slip through the cracks when following up on all the virtual or verbal ‘boy who cried wolf’ threats.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/expert-analysis-school-threats-violence-social-media-shootings-washington-dc-maryland-virginia-dmv-wootton-high-school-gaithersburg-instagram-twitter-tiktok-facebook-arrests-james-densley-preventon-project-research-center-national-trend-united-states?teaserSource=trending

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

I think it is funny and entitled that PP is going to ask this at the parent interview, yes. DESA is a selective school judging your kid, not the other way around. If OP gets admitted that would be the time to ask questions. It would be laughably entitled to go to an interview for a selective school and tell them all about how you think a different child should be expelled from that school. OP can ask all they want but that may result in being rejected from the school.

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

I think it is funny and entitled that PP is going to ask this at the parent interview, yes. DESA is a selective school judging your kid, not the other way around. If OP gets admitted that would be the time to ask questions. It would be laughably entitled to go to an interview for a selective school and tell them all about how you think a different child should be expelled from that school. OP can ask all they want but that may result in being rejected from the school.

If my kid got rejected by a school because I asked how they keep students safe, I would really feel like we dodged a bullet (pun intended)

Also, news flash: interviews are an opportunity for both parties to get more information. They are not solely an opportunity for acceptance or rejection. That is a very immature perspective

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Good lord, can we get back to Admissions, please?

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

I think it is funny and entitled that PP is going to ask this at the parent interview, yes. DESA is a selective school judging your kid, not the other way around. If OP gets admitted that would be the time to ask questions. It would be laughably entitled to go to an interview for a selective school and tell them all about how you think a different child should be expelled from that school. OP can ask all they want but that may result in being rejected from the school.

The teachers/interviewers would probably be thrilled to have more students who consider safety a reasonable expectation.

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

I think it is funny and entitled that PP is going to ask this at the parent interview, yes. DESA is a selective school judging your kid, not the other way around. If OP gets admitted that would be the time to ask questions. It would be laughably entitled to go to an interview for a selective school and tell them all about how you think a different child should be expelled from that school. OP can ask all they want but that may result in being rejected from the school.

The teachers/interviewers would probably be thrilled to have more students who consider safety a reasonable expectation.

This is a joke, right?

PP isn't saying you should never ask about safety policies, just that there is a time and place.

And an admissions interview is not the time or place.

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Anonymous wrote:We have our DESA family interview and will be asking this week. These students should not be allowed at school. Thanks for all the info. Outside of what is hopefully a small (and soon to be former?) group of students, DESQ sounds like a great fit for our DC. But we want to see strong leadership in situations like this. And leaders do not cave to parents and will get rid of kids like this from the student body.

lol. Tell me without telling me that you are coming from a majority white school.

DESA will not kick these kids out. Not a chance.

End of weekend. Sigh. I replied to the wrong post. Kid is at Deal. Older sibling is at J-R. We’ve gotten the weapons abatement emails at J-R and principal Brown seems to take things seriously. Our family has been very happy at both Deal and J-R (though we think class scheduling could be done better at J-R).

lol ok, knew it. Go ahead and tell the DESA teachers in the parent interview how they need to be more zero tolerance with expulsions. Good luck to you and your kid.

dp - There's a lot of ground between doing nothing and zero tolerance.

You clearly are commenting due to some chip on your shoulder and have no knowledge of this specific situation.

I’m commenting on the vision of the Deal mom lecturing the DESA teachers at the interview about her expectations for school discipline.

Yeah. Just keep sneering. It's so charming.

I mean, you have no idea about how these issues are dealt with at DCPS so not sure why you are even trying to get into a DCPS HS.

I'm PP but not the person with the kid applying to DESA.

What I know is that "teachers" are not the ones responsible for discipline in this case; that "Deal mom" wasn't lecturing anyone -- she was expressing her very reasonable view; and that Deal mom obviously is familiar with DCPS as she has at least one child in it.

I'm just not sure why you (or whoever the poster above is) is chiding the concerned poster. Seriously disruptive behavior *should* be dealt with.

lol tell me again without telling me that you have no experience with DCPS other than very sheltered wealthy schools. Some teachers can in fact have a lot of influence over how some kids are treated and disciplined.

What exactly is your angle here? DCPS families should just accept weapons in schools because that’s a normal part of “non-wealthy” communities that just needs to be accepted? That’s absurd. All families should expect safe schools in all communities. Full stop.

I think I made myself pretty clear? It’s that you have no idea what attending a high poverty DC school (which DESA is) is all about and I’m laughing at the idea of you taking a stand about this in the interview and thinking you are being all brave or whatever. So entitled. Well anyway good luck with the interview.

Very weird take. Why do you think that poor kids should have to be subjected to violence?

Read what I wrote again.

I’ve read it. You think it’s entitled to ask about reports of weapons and violence at the school and how the school handles those situations to keep kids safe.

Very weird take to think this is an inappropriate question. You think schools should have not responsibility to keep safe if they are poor. It’s frankly one of the most egregious things I have ever seen on DCUM and that is saying A LOt.

I don’t have a kid interested in DESA, but don’t begrudge a potential parent from asking this question at all

I think it is funny and entitled that PP is going to ask this at the parent interview, yes. DESA is a selective school judging your kid, not the other way around. If OP gets admitted that would be the time to ask questions. It would be laughably entitled to go to an interview for a selective school and tell them all about how you think a different child should be expelled from that school. OP can ask all they want but that may result in being rejected from the school.

The teachers/interviewers would probably be thrilled to have more students who consider safety a reasonable expectation.

This is a joke, right?

PP isn't saying you should never ask about safety policies, just that there is a time and place.

And an admissions interview is not the time or place.

Exactly. To me it would indicate that the family has zero idea of what it means to attend DESA and how a school like DESA operates. If your response to that is to foam at the mouth and insist “but the kids deserve saaaafety!” then you still are not getting it. Yes the kids deserve safety. No, DESA and DCPS in general are never going to be suburban schools. No, rich white parents are not going to be able to have disproportionate influence on the school. No, you do not have an equal seat at the table as DCPS educators who have dealt with incidents like this (and worse) for a long time. No, you do not get to demand information or that certain students get expelled or to know anything about how the school handles individual disciplinary issues.

DESA has visible and attentive security and that’s pretty much all you need to know.