The Lists are In...

[Anonymous]

Start a new thread because the title of this thread does not make it apparent that folks are listing their picks (I am one of the posters commenting on Powell, but agree the original intent of the thread has been lost).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Agreed. And I'm not picking on this particular poster...particularly since she clarified that she's not at Powell now. As she rightly pointed out, inboundary families can't "lottery" for K and above because they get in as a matter of right. But once you do make the decision to not exercise that right by enrolling in and attending another public school (DCPS or charter) you should not just be able to show up whenever you want. If you want to get back into your old local school, you should have to lottery for it as if you were OOB.

I am sorry but that is ridiculous. The whole idea behind a neighborhood system is so that everyone DOES have a back-up school at any and all times in a kid's academic career. That is the way it should be!

Do you have any idea how planning and budgeting works? Would you be happy if 20 additional and unexpected inboundary children showed up at your child's school the first day of school and suddenly the 20:1 ratio in your child's class was 30:1? Please think about that.

How is that significantly different from if a bunch of families with school-age kids move into the Powell IB area during the course of the school year from somewhere outside D.C. and want to send their kids there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

Several of these schools have zero K spots. What's the point of listing them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

mous wrote:^^This is exactly what I meant when I wrote above aborent involvement. A few gentrifying parents who are actively involved is not high parent involvement when it appears that the overwhelming jority of the parents are not involved and are separate and apart from these "new" parents. I want Powell to succeed as well. Would be great to have a neighborhood school that would really work for my family, but right now that is not happening and I do not want my children to suffer because of it.

This is definitely worrisome, as someone who put Powell relatively high. The thing is, I always assumed that parents putting their kids in a bilingual program themselves would speak Spanish and would make an effort to bridge that divide. Maybe that assumption was just flat out wrong.

This is not true. There are many involved parents who are not white gentrifiers. The difference is HOW they are involved. The parents who are not gentrifiers are like the SAHM. They do things within the school to take care the children, help out around the school, chaperone field trips, bring dishes for pot lucks, etc. The gentrifiers (i really hate using that word) work outside of the "home" speaking to community leaders and such, drumming up outside support...
People do what they are most comfortable doing.

So just because the involvement looks different, it doesn't mean it's not there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lists please!!!!

School-Within-School
Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
Peabody Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Brent Elementary School
AppleTree Early Learning PCS – Lincoln Park
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Lee Montessori
Two Rivers PCS
J.O. Wilson Elementary School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

Several of these schools have zero K spots. What's the point of listing them?

To get on wait list

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

Several of these schools have zero K spots. What's the point of listing them?

Mostly to use up the 12 spots, and because I know one of the schools listed zero spots but will have an opening so maybe others will, too.

[Anonymous]

Cap City
Lafayette
Eaton
Shepherd
IT
Mann
Key
Hyde
Lee Montessori
Mundo Verde

For K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.

Several of these schools have zero K spots. What's the point of listing them?

To get on wait list

+1. Schools are conservative and there is attrition that is not accounted for. Best to be high on a WL! We got offered K spot WOTP last year that showed 0. Especially for K, in our scenario there wer so many IB kids that they had to open new K class.

[Anonymous]

Go Shepherd!!! Best kept secret EOTP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cap City
Lafayette
Eaton
Shepherd
IT
Mann
Key
Hyde
Lee Montessori
Mundo Verde

For K.

So why cap city first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cap City
Lafayette
Eaton
Shepherd
IT
Mann
Key
Hyde
Lee Montessori
Mundo Verde

For K.

So why cap city first?

We loved it. We are confident out child will be academically well-suited for elementary. It's conveinent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Shepherd!!! Best kept secret EOTP!

Shhh! Don't tell anyone else

[Anonymous]

Will Shepherd still feed Hardy after boundary changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will Shepherd still feed Hardy after boundary changes?

Shepherd feeds to Deal