Oyster and bancroft feed to McFarland

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The idea is a clever one that should be looked into.

Sure folks are not going to like it if it turns into something,but hey DCPS doesn't really care what most families want.

Untrue. DCPS cares what middle class/affluent families want, just like most organizations care. If DCPS didn't care: 1. The Wilson/Deal boundary would be MUCH smaller; 2. Oyster-Adams would have lost the Wilson feed (as first proposed during the last boundary review); 3. Murch, Janney, Lafayette, and other WotP schools would not have received pricey renovations and expansions; etc.

Actually that is a good few points there. Although I agree that it makes sense for the Oyster Adams middle to feed to McFarland, Oyster Adams is in Dupont Circle and McFarland is closer to the Middle school location, even if it not closer to everyones house. I just don't see how DCPS would have the balls to do it - given how much the Mayor needs happy upper north west people to like her.

Oyster Elementary is in Woodley, Adams Middle School is in Adams Morgan (that's where the Adams in AdMo comes from). Neither is in Dupont Circle. They are both walkable neighborhood schools for us, which makes sense because they are our local in boundary schools. MacFarland is not walkable or local.

Wilson isn't walkable. There's that.

Wilson is walkable—it’s just a very long walk (about 2.5 miles).

Even better, Wilson is a very short 3 stops on the Red Line from the Woodley Park Metro station.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea is a clever one that should be looked into.

Sure folks are not going to like it if it turns into something,but hey DCPS doesn't really care what most families want.

Untrue. DCPS cares what middle class/affluent families want, just like most organizations care. If DCPS didn't care: 1. The Wilson/Deal boundary would be MUCH smaller; 2. Oyster-Adams would have lost the Wilson feed (as first proposed during the last boundary review); 3. Murch, Janney, Lafayette, and other WotP schools would not have received pricey renovations and expansions; etc.

Actually that is a good few points there. Although I agree that it makes sense for the Oyster Adams middle to feed to McFarland, Oyster Adams is in Dupont Circle and McFarland is closer to the Middle school location, even if it not closer to everyones house. I just don't see how DCPS would have the balls to do it - given how much the Mayor needs happy upper north west people to like her.

Oyster Elementary is in Woodley, Adams Middle School is in Adams Morgan (that's where the Adams in AdMo comes from). Neither is in Dupont Circle. They are both walkable neighborhood schools for us, which makes sense because they are our local in boundary schools. MacFarland is not walkable or local.

Wilson isn't walkable. There's that.

Wilson is walkable—it’s just a very long walk (about 2.5 miles).

Even better, Wilson is a very short 3 stops on the Red Line from the Woodley Park Metro station.

The Adams middle school feeding to Rosevelt makes sense as a valve to overcrowding at Wilson. Rosevelt is closer to the middle school location. Although not closer for ALL the people who use the middle school. And don't those people have enough capital to just move to in Wilson bounds anyway? Or go private. I don't know, but I always assumed most people in Cleveland park and Kalorama have money and can vote with their feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The idea is a clever one that should be looked into.

Sure folks are not going to like it if it turns into something,but hey DCPS doesn't really care what most families want.

Untrue. DCPS cares what middle class/affluent families want, just like most organizations care. If DCPS didn't care: 1. The Wilson/Deal boundary would be MUCH smaller; 2. Oyster-Adams would have lost the Wilson feed (as first proposed during the last boundary review); 3. Murch, Janney, Lafayette, and other WotP schools would not have received pricey renovations and expansions; etc.

Actually that is a good few points there. Although I agree that it makes sense for the Oyster Adams middle to feed to McFarland, Oyster Adams is in Dupont Circle and McFarland is closer to the Middle school location, even if it not closer to everyones house. I just don't see how DCPS would have the balls to do it - given how much the Mayor needs happy upper north west people to like her.

Oyster Elementary is in Woodley, Adams Middle School is in Adams Morgan (that's where the Adams in AdMo comes from). Neither is in Dupont Circle. They are both walkable neighborhood schools for us, which makes sense because they are our local in boundary schools. MacFarland is not walkable or local.

Wilson isn't walkable. There's that.

Wilson is walkable—it’s just a very long walk (about 2.5 miles).

Even better, Wilson is a very short 3 stops on the Red Line from the Woodley Park Metro station.

The Adams middle school feeding to Rosevelt makes sense as a valve to overcrowding at Wilson. Rosevelt is closer to the middle school location. Although not closer for ALL the people who use the middle school. And don't those people have enough capital to just move to in Wilson bounds anyway? Or go private. I don't know, but I always assumed most people in Cleveland park and Kalorama have money and can vote with their feet.

Oyster's primary/main campus is located in Woodley Park. Yes, most people who own single family homes in WP can probably afford to move anywhere they want in DC. However, I assume they chose Woodley Park for a good reason. The vast majority, if not all, of the Woodley Park homeowners will not send their children to MacFarland or Roosevelt. They will "vote with their feet" by going private or using some other option. As stated earlier up thread, this would pretty much defeat the purpose of eliminating Oyster as a Wilson feeder because only OOB/lower performing/less affluent Oyster students will have to go to MacFarland and Roosevelt. What's the point then?

[Anonymous]

move O-A, Shepherd to another MS and HS. only murch, lafayette and janney should feed to deal and wilson. Cut the feeding for out of bounds after elementary and have them reapply for open spots.

[Anonymous]

Is the goal to ease overcrowding or make Deal/Wilson whiter and richer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:move O-A, Shepherd to another MS and HS. only murch, lafayette and janney should feed to deal and wilson. Cut the feeding for out of bounds after elementary and have them reapply for open spots.

So remove all ethnic and financial diversity? Ok cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:move O-A, Shepherd to another MS and HS. only murch, lafayette and janney should feed to deal and wilson. Cut the feeding for out of bounds after elementary and have them reapply for open spots.

Oyster is an elementary school that feeds to Adams middle school. Smh

[Anonymous]

Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

This is not true, assuming the English test the 7th graders took was PARCC (the only test given to all public school students in the city).

2018 7th grade ELA % scoring 4 or 5 (proficient or advanced)

Adams 75%
Basis 89%
Washington Latin 69%
Deal 80%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

DCPS should make Oyster-Adams serve PK-5 and send the kids to the same bilingual middle school and high school all other DCPS bilingual elementary schools feed into: MacFarland, then Roosevelt. That would allow more children to have the benefit of bilingual schools. Clearly the kids that go to Oyster have lots of advantages, and those would not end if they went to a larger middle school,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

DCPS should make Oyster-Adams serve PK-5 and send the kids to the same bilingual middle school and high school all other DCPS bilingual elementary schools feed into: MacFarland, then Roosevelt. That would allow more children to have the benefit of bilingual schools. Clearly the kids that go to Oyster have lots of advantages, and those would not end if they went to a larger middle school,

It’s a good thing for us (an Oyster-Adams family) that’s not going to happen. We would not send our academically advanced children to MacFarland or Roosevelt. We would simply stay at Oyster until 5th, and then go private or move. No one is going to make us send our children to a school we don’t like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

DCPS should make Oyster-Adams serve PK-5 and send the kids to the same bilingual middle school and high school all other DCPS bilingual elementary schools feed into: MacFarland, then Roosevelt. That would allow more children to have the benefit of bilingual schools. Clearly the kids that go to Oyster have lots of advantages, and those would not end if they went to a larger middle school,

It’s a good thing for us (an Oyster-Adams family) that’s not going to happen. We would not send our academically advanced children to MacFarland or Roosevelt. We would simply stay at Oyster until 5th, and then go private or move. No one is going to make us send our children to a school we don’t like.

That's fine. DCPS will be all right without you. But something has to give at Deal and Wilson, and Oyster and Bancroft make the most sense to move because of the existence of an underenrolled middle and high school that follows their specialized curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

DCPS should make Oyster-Adams serve PK-5 and send the kids to the same bilingual middle school and high school all other DCPS bilingual elementary schools feed into: MacFarland, then Roosevelt. That would allow more children to have the benefit of bilingual schools. Clearly the kids that go to Oyster have lots of advantages, and those would not end if they went to a larger middle school,

It’s a good thing for us (an Oyster-Adams family) that’s not going to happen. We would not send our academically advanced children to MacFarland or Roosevelt. We would simply stay at Oyster until 5th, and then go private or move. No one is going to make us send our children to a school we don’t like.

That's fine. DCPS will be all right without you. But something has to give at Deal and Wilson, and Oyster and Bancroft make the most sense to move because of the existence of an underenrolled middle and high school that follows their specialized curriculum.

NP: your agenda is clear and despicable, my friend. Let's get those Hispanics out of our school.

Btw, let me guess, Wilson is not even "your" school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oyster has its own middle school called Adams. It goes until eight grade.

Also I read that Oyster seventh graders scored the highest of all the DC public schools in English reading, beating out all the others in DC. Plus their eight graders took an AP test for college and something like 96 percent of them passed with flying colors. And they aren’t even in High school yet.

That sounds like a pretty impressive dual language school. A shame more schools don’t offer dual language across the country. Clearly the kids that go there have some advantage.

DCPS should make Oyster-Adams serve PK-5 and send the kids to the same bilingual middle school and high school all other DCPS bilingual elementary schools feed into: MacFarland, then Roosevelt. That would allow more children to have the benefit of bilingual schools. Clearly the kids that go to Oyster have lots of advantages, and those would not end if they went to a larger middle school,

It’s a good thing for us (an Oyster-Adams family) that’s not going to happen. We would not send our academically advanced children to MacFarland or Roosevelt. We would simply stay at Oyster until 5th, and then go private or move. No one is going to make us send our children to a school we don’t like.

That's fine. DCPS will be all right without you. But something has to give at Deal and Wilson, and Oyster and Bancroft make the most sense to move because of the existence of an underenrolled middle and high school that follows their specialized curriculum.

NP: your agenda is clear and despicable, my friend. Let's get those Hispanics out of our school.

Btw, let me guess, Wilson is not even "your" school.

So what is your solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:move O-A, Shepherd to another MS and HS. only murch, lafayette and janney should feed to deal and wilson. Cut the feeding for out of bounds after elementary and have them reapply for open spots.

Short version of this post: keep brown and black people out of Wilson.

And only this will relieve racist anxieties that are the main trigger for NW whites to flee for the burbs.