does anyone else find the social scene at Janney hard to take?

[Anonymous]

Six pages before someone took a shot at SAHPs.

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Anonymous wrote:Having the principal host a sleepover at the school allows preferential access to a public good (and a public resource) by the wealthy. It also sends a terrible message to the kids: rich families can curry favor and get extra social access to the principal, receive perks etc. Parking spaces , even in the teachers' lot, are still public property. If you auction off public property, there are rules governing how that is done, and the auction generally must be open to the general public, not just school parents.

You sound like a frustrated former law associate turned SAHM. This is school auction 101, not a civil rights suit. Get perspective, or perhaps a hobby for your energies. There's always the garden club.

Well said.

Not well said. The way it was said was just plain rude, ad hominem vitriol that undermined the point she was trying to make.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Having the principal host a sleepover at the school allows preferential access to a public good (and a public resource) by the wealthy. It also sends a terrible message to the kids: rich families can curry favor and get extra social access to the principal, receive perks etc. Parking spaces , even in the teachers' lot, are still public property. If you auction off public property, there are rules governing how that is done, and the auction generally must be open to the general public, not just school parents.

You sound like a frustrated former law associate turned SAHM. This is school auction 101, not a civil rights suit. Get perspective, or perhaps a hobby for your energies. There's always the garden club.

Well said.

Not well said. The way it was said was just plain rude, ad hominem vitriol that undermined the point she was trying to make.

School auctions all over the country auction off the resources they have to raise money to support the school. Whether it is a sleepover in the the school, principal for a day, a parking space or a case of wine donated by families, none of this was invented at WOTP schools. There is a ridiculous outrage that this is somehow evidence of an inhospitable social climate with a school or unlawful. As the PP noted, this is school auctions 101.

[Anonymous]

This is the unfortunate part of DCPS. The highest performing schools (especially Janney) operate kind of like private schools. It can be great for the kids, but it definitely does not make for the most open, equitable environment. Janney is fine, really, but money does matter in the community in terms of access to the principal and getting particular teachers. Those who are involved in the school and who give money do have influence. In some ways, there is more of a "cool" group here than in local private schools. This is why DCPS needs to actually get better across the board and not rely on those quasi-public schools for its statistics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Having the principal host a sleepover at the school allows preferential access to a public good (and a public resource) by the wealthy. It also sends a terrible message to the kids: rich families can curry favor and get extra social access to the principal, receive perks etc. Parking spaces , even in the teachers' lot, are still public property. If you auction off public property, there are rules governing how that is done, and the auction generally must be open to the general public, not just school parents.

You sound like a frustrated former law associate turned SAHM. This is school auction 101, not a civil rights suit. Get perspective, or perhaps a hobby for your energies. There's always the garden club.

Well said.

Not well said. The way it was said was just plain rude, ad hominem vitriol that undermined the point she was trying to make.

School auctions all over the country auction off the resources they have to raise money to support the school. Whether it is a sleepover in the the school, principal for a day, a parking space or a case of wine donated by families, none of this was invented at WOTP schools. There is a ridiculous outrage that this is somehow evidence of an inhospitable social climate with a school or unlawful. As the PP noted, this is school auctions 101.

Well, I think we all know where you fall on the JKLM food chain, auction committee queen bee mom lady. Thanks for clearing that up.

I've been to school auctions in multiple states that have no such items in the catalogue. Instead, items are all goods and services donated by private individuals (pies, a week in my Rome apartment) or by businesses (one week at Calleva camp; a $20 manicure).

Both public and private schools are choosing to send a message when they sell their own property to the highest bidder. I know a number of NWDC privates do the parking / carpool line thing. Ours does not.

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Anonymous wrote:How do parents get one of the coveted Janney garage parking passes? A few parents have them. Are they the "queen bee" volunteers?

They buy them at the auction. $3-4k for a spot.

This being a Janney thread, I actually cannot tell if you are serious or this is a joke, people paying ("donating") for these privileges at a public school.

This is not a joke!

Back in the days before the construction, it was possible to buy a reserved parking spot in the teacher parking lot at the annual Mann auction. I don't remember what it would usually fetch. I do remember that one year it was won by a family whose kids were always late to school. It allowed them to pull in at 8:44 and drop their kids off before the second bell without having to waste time circling the block looking for parking.

It is still possible to buy prime reserved seating for the school play, principal for the day, sleepover birthday parties at school hosted by the principal, etc. at the Mann auction.

No one cares about Mann. The school is like apartheid era South Africa.

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies, Janney shm here who needs a gigolo please advise. Hubbie just isn't putting out anymore. Please give me some suggestions!

They have an auction for that.

Winning post of the thread.

ha ha ha ha ha

Joke aside. I cannot believe some of the stuff said in this thread. Crazy and disgusting that at a public school, things like these are happening.

Sun Tzu:
So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.

Required reading for Janney parents. Art of War is distributed at boozy parent socials/parties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was like this when my DD attended, but some Charters are like this as well. We are a AA family, so maybe that's why.

This is the situation at many DCPS and charter schools, both EOTP and WOTP, for all demographics. There are usually a few "tight" families in an in-group or clique and the rest (the majority of parents, BTW) are out. This is the wrong way to fake building a school community.

The pervasiveness and the complexity of this dynamic is unique to Janney.

[Anonymous]

I hear there are swingers parties for the hot parents. The children serve the drinks and walk around in masks ushering partiers into different rooms of the manse.

Like Eyes Wide Shut.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was like this when my DD attended, but some Charters are like this as well. We are a AA family, so maybe that's why.

This is the situation at many DCPS and charter schools, both EOTP and WOTP, for all demographics. There are usually a few "tight" families in an in-group or clique and the rest (the majority of parents, BTW) are out. This is the wrong way to fake building a school community.

The pervasiveness and the complexity of this dynamic is unique to Janney.

really? unique to Janney? How the heck would you know? Have you been elsewhere? Or, more likely, are you just stirring the pot like so many here?

I'm not a Janney parent. I will never be a Janney parent. Many of the people in this (and other threads) disgust me. You are shallow, jealous people. It's a shame, too, because the very real faults that I'm certain Janney has will never be discussed so long as the petty party continues to co-opt the conversation.

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[Anonymous]

I don't care--I'm off to Toad Hall for the summer…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents get one of the coveted Janney garage parking passes? A few parents have them. Are they the "queen bee" volunteers?

They buy them at the auction. $3-4k for a spot.

This being a Janney thread, I actually cannot tell if you are serious or this is a joke, people paying ("donating") for these privileges at a public school.

This is not a joke!

Back in the days before the construction, it was possible to buy a reserved parking spot in the teacher parking lot at the annual Mann auction. I don't remember what it would usually fetch. I do remember that one year it was won by a family whose kids were always late to school. It allowed them to pull in at 8:44 and drop their kids off before the second bell without having to waste time circling the block looking for parking.

It is still possible to buy prime reserved seating for the school play, principal for the day, sleepover birthday parties at school hosted by the principal, etc. at the Mann auction.

This seems wildly inappropriate, and possibly illegal.

Janney has sleepovers sold at the school auction too. About 4 to 5 grand a night. Buying these definitely helps you with popularity.

Yu Ying also auctions such items (parking spot/carpool lane access without a carpool, sleepover at school, playdates with teachers). It's called a fund-raiser - the point is to raise funds for the school: everybody wins. I've never heard anybody complain about such things until this thread. The popularity obsession comes across as particularly juvenile. It seems more likely to reflect a chip on one or two persons' shoulders than a characteristic which applies to the entire Janney population.

[Anonymous]

Also, this is not new. I know that my Montgomery County elementary school was auctioning off lunch with the teacher back in the 80s! It's a fundraiser, people.

[Anonymous]

Well, it looks to me like popular schools are regularly subject to trashy threads like this one.
Mv, YY, Lamb, or JKLM, it rotates every week.
I feel sorry for the trashers. Use your energy to improve your local school. You will do a favor to your kids and to yourself.