Reply to What elementary school on The Hill?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "What elementary school on The Hill? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.[/quote]

I'm the parent of a rising First Grader from Peabody who will be going to Watkins.  I currently only know of two kids (from a total of four classes) in the entire school NOT going to Watkins.  I'm sure there are more than a handful, but, honestly, I just don't know of more than two, and I've been asking....(and I presently haven't heard of anybody going to MV, though maybe my kid's in another circle.)

As for SES status, if it's any indicator, I've been to A LOT of birthdays that cost over $500.  And The school's starting to look  like a mini-Boden catalog.

There's also a visible demographic shift between my K child's class and my Pk3 child's.  (The PK3 class is diverse, but my impression--based on no hard-data, but impressions from fellow parents--is that it's more uniformlyl higher SES.)
[/quote]

I will be very interested to see if a critical mass of your kid's Peabody class stays through 2nd or 3rd grade. It would be great if that happened, but I have my doubts. Come lottery time next year, my guess is there won't be a single middle/high SES family that doesn't put in some picks for a different school/better MS option. [/quote][/quote]

There are always parents even in the "best" DCPS schools playing the lottery.  However, Peabody's current K class has something like 80 kids in it.  Something tells me there are not enough OOB slots in "good" DCPS schools to accommodate this number of kids.  If people don't want to move or go private, they might just have to go to Watkins if lottery luck doesn't strike.  Get enough of a critical mass of parents who are stuck, and Watkins will be forced to turn in spite of itself.  Of course, one hopes that some of these parents will also want to make Watkins work themselves.  Seeing how active the Cluster PTA is, those parents are already there.[/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