Reply to Where's the list Kaya?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Where's the list Kaya?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well that power point blows the myth of the babyboom out of the water.  Maybe in some areas it looks like it but city as a whole?  Down, way down.[/quote]

The "baby boom" kids aren't 5 years old yet. How many age 0-4 kids are about to hit the system I wonder?[/quote]

Well that, and let's be honest - how many low-income families have fled to PG and parts of Montgomery counties as more DC neighborhoods are gentrified?  [b]My take is that these kids have been replaced with the kids of higher-income families that are buying expensive property in DC.[/b][/quote]

That describes the Bloomingdale/LeDroit/Shaw/Eckington baby boomlet perfectly.  However, none of those new families support the local DCPS schools.  The surrounding DCPS schools continue to close from our collective distrust and lack of interest.  The charter options continue to expand and fill themselves with children from our neighborhoods.  Every Spring a few anxious parents post something on the neighborhood email groups, trying to recruit a set of parents to make the jump together.  It hasn't worked yet, and why would it?  Who wants a failed DCPS with miserable scores, lousy school culture, disinterested students, etc. when you can enroll your child in a brand new charter with fresh ideas?  First it was Two Rivers and Haynes, then LAMB, then Yu Ying, then Mundo Verde and Inspired Teaching, then Creative Minds, and next up will surely be Sela.  All of them seem like choices better than anything this side of the park.  The young families with high expectations in my neighborhood look around at all the many options that others have selected from just a year or two before them, and completely reject the local DCPS.  Why would that change?  Really, what about consolidating schools that nobody wants anyway, would make that dynamic change?[/quote] This describes the Garrison / Seaton consolidation well. Combining two struggling under enrolled schools serving largely OOB FARM saves DCPS money but won't change anything else. If they want support from parents and teachers DCPS needs to outline plans for investing in the newly consolidated schools. Otherwise it's just a case of same shit bigger bucket.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics