Up and coming DCPS schools

[Anonymous]

Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

[Anonymous]

what school are you in PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

Please don't feed this troll!

[Anonymous]

Hart Middle School

[Anonymous]

Bruce Monroe at Park View. I think when you have an In-Boundary family leaving Yu Ying for their local DCPS, you can call the DCPS up and coming!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

Please don't feed this troll!

I'm not the PP, but I don't see this as trolling at all - I think it is a very accurate assessment of how things have been in recent years but I really think the educational climate in DC is right on the verge of taking a turn for the better. The poster is spot on about the PS3/PK4 "grab" for those highly-desired charter schools. We were ignorant and didn't bother trying to enroll our 3-year-old in one of them when she qualified and now we're paying the price as we try to get her a spot in K. With that said, the sheer number of solidly middle class families (mostly white and black, fewer hispanic and asian) who are sending their kids to the lesser desirable charters as well as their neighborhood DCPS has EXPLODED. Seriously, EXPLODED. I think it's fair to ask about up and coming schools because in two years, they'll be unrecognizable (in a good way.)

[Anonymous]

^^ very true. To say that only the most dedicated parents sent their kids to the highly sought after charters completely ignores the fact that hundreds every year can't get into those schools. Where are all those kids going? Certainly not all of them are moving to the burbs or going to private. Yes, they are going to their neighborhood schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ very true. To say that only the most dedicated parents sent their kids to the highly sought after charters completely ignores the fact that hundreds every year can't get into those schools. Where are all those kids going? Certainly not all of them are moving to the burbs or going to private. Yes, they are going to their neighborhood schools.

Yes, we are. Neighborhood DCPS EOTP and we intend to help make it an awesome experience for our children and their peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

Please don't feed this troll!

Actually, I have witnessed all the supposed "troll" reports. I was inbounds for Takoma, and students attended several charters & OOB schools looking for a fit with a commute we can live with. Didn't find it. Enrolled yesterday in Mont Co, Maryland tags on the car today, moving van later this week. Wish I had done it years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

Please don't feed this troll!

Actually, I have witnessed all the supposed "troll" reports. I was inbounds for Takoma, and students attended several charters & OOB schools looking for a fit with a commute we can live with. Didn't find it. Enrolled yesterday in Mont Co, Maryland tags on the car today, moving van later this week.

What did not work? Are you moving up county or down county in Montgomery county? I have to wonder how long till Montgomery county has the similar issues as DC. Ubber successful upper county, struggling largely segregated down county.

[Anonymous]

Bruce MOnroe in Park View. its a true immersion school, the principal welcomes white families, the gentrifiers are crazy active to get the school moving forward. The majority pop of the school is latino and seems to be fewer behavior problems in a low income population.

[Anonymous]

Mont Co, new resident back. Moving to small apartment in BCC cluster for Westland MS.

What didn't work for us, in one way or another in DC:

One highly regarded charter with child in "bleeding/leading edge"

Another highly regarded charter in expansion year with class out of control

One OOB school with high principal turnover (many years ago, in early Rhee days)

One OOB MS school with only adequate academics

The best public school years my older child had were at an OOB elementary with a miserable commute. The best public school years my younger child had were at the charter where older was "bleeding" edge, and younger was relatively content (and well educated).

The thing we never tried was Takoma EC, in bounds, and I would never ever send a child to Coolidge, the other in bounds school. I see a major problem with both Roosevelt and Coolidge underenrolled, and until one is closed (preferably Coolidge now that Roosevelt has been renovated), there will not be sufficient neighborhood impetus to improve the high school. There has been a real loss in the boundary proposal that all the education campuses are left intact, with the promise of a someday "new north MS".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mont Co, new resident back. Moving to small apartment in BCC cluster for Westland MS.

What didn't work for us, in one way or another in DC:

One highly regarded charter with child in "bleeding/leading edge"

Another highly regarded charter in expansion year with class out of control

One OOB school with high principal turnover (many years ago, in early Rhee days)

One OOB MS school with only adequate academics

The best public school years my older child had were at an OOB elementary with a miserable commute. The best public school years my younger child had were at the charter where older was "bleeding" edge, and younger was relatively content (and well educated).

The thing we never tried was Takoma EC, in bounds, and I would never ever send a child to Coolidge, the other in bounds school. I see a major problem with both Roosevelt and Coolidge underenrolled, and until one is closed (preferably Coolidge now that Roosevelt has been renovated), there will not be sufficient neighborhood impetus to improve the high school. There has been a real loss in the boundary proposal that all the education campuses are left intact, with the promise of a someday "new north MS".

I think the proposal was pretty clear that their vision was to roll back the ECs to elementary only. That just depends on funding that is out of DME's control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of pom-poms on this thread. I can't imagine enrolling my rising 1st-grader in any school mentioned above.

It's easy to wax optimistic when your DC is enrolling for PS3. After paying for daycare, it seems like a gift.

Much the same for PK4, although by then you have a sense of opportunities greater than simply "free."

K is where the rubber meets the road. By now, you have friends who are enrolled in very desirable programs. They may be HRCS (the Highly Regarded Charter shortlist: Bridges, Cap City, Creative Minds, DC Bilingual, DC Prep, EL Haynes, Inspired Teaching, LAMB, Mundo Verde, Two Rivers, Stokes, Yu Ying) or OOB JKLM, or private.

By 1st, if you didn't have an exit strategy, you need Xanax. Better prepared families have been peeling off for years. And those who didn't get lucky in the lottery, or paid up to go private, have decamped for FFX and MoCo.

Meanwhile DCPS's improvement strategy has offered extended school days... only to be shot down by the WTU. Why? Because when it comes to improving the education of children in DCPS? Children don't pay Union dues! So they (and their families) can go to... someplace hot. Of course, the WTU does insist that they get to keep their massive raise package.

Just because they win, doesn't mean that the taxpayer does.

Please don't feed this troll!

Actually, I have witnessed all the supposed "troll" reports. I was inbounds for Takoma, and students attended several charters & OOB schools looking for a fit with a commute we can live with. Didn't find it. Enrolled yesterday in Mont Co, Maryland tags on the car today, moving van later this week.

What did not work? Are you moving up county or down county in Montgomery county? I have to wonder how long till Montgomery county has the similar issues as DC. Ubber successful upper county, struggling largely segregated down county.

Down county MoCo already has those problems. They are whispering about the changing demographics now in DCC.

I am AA and an older white co-worker advised against buying in the DCC because it was "changing." I just had to laugh to myself. My, my, how times have changed . . . Or really haven't.

[Anonymous]

My money is strong on Ludlow-Taylor rising up fast, especially after all the IB L-T families going to Watkins figure out Watkins is such a dump and then switch back home to LT. Then Watkins will slide even further into the abyss. Time for a Martini!